1. Fashion Terminology

2. Garment Haute Couture Ready to Wear Style Tailored Trend Wardrobe
Accessories Avant-Garde Classic Design Draped Fad/Craze Fashion Fashion Cycle
Garment Haute Couture Ready to Wear Style Tailored Trend Wardrobe

3. Accessories Articles added to complete or enhance an outfit.
Shoes, belts, handbags, jewelry….

4. Avant-Garde
Daring designs that are unconventional and startling. Usually disappear after a few years

5. Classic
Item of clothing that satisfies a basic need and continues to be in fashion acceptance over an extended period of time
Timeless (pencil skirt, white button down blouse, blazer)

6. WOMEN’S CLASSICS

7. MEN’S CLASSICS

8. Composite
A garment that is a combination of tailored and draped.

9. Design Detail
The various garment parts that distinguish styles. Necklines, collars, sleeves, bodice, lapels, hemlines, etc.
A t-shirt is a garment type but the neckline changes the style of the garment (Crewneck, Henley, v-neck, etc.)

10. Draped
Wrapped or hung on the body and usually held in place with pins, toggles, buttons, sash, or belt.

11. FAD A fashion with a sudden burst of popularity.
Item with great appeal
for a short period of time.

12. FADS FROM THE PAST…

13. Design
A very specific version or variation of a style, garment parts and elements combine to create a fashion style concept
A t shirt is a style, the neckline changes the design of that style (crew neck, Henley, v neck, etc.)

14. Fashion
The currently accepted style. A prevailing type of clothing that is favored by a large segment of the public

15. Fashion Cycle
Cycle of the RISE, POPULARIZATION, and DECLINE of a particular style. (I Rarely Poke Dead Objects)
Introduction Rise Peak Decline Outdated

16. Fit Garment Type Ready to Wear
The Right size or how tight or loose the clothing is on a person
Garment Type
A category of clothing. Dress, coat, suit, sweater, pants, etc.
Ready to Wear
Clothing mass produced in standard sizes and sold to customers without custom alterations.

17. Haute Couture
(oat-koo-tour) A French term that literally means fine sewing. The finest clothing from fashion houses by major designers.

18. Silhouette
The shape of a clothing style shown by its outer lines.

19. STYLE
A characteristic or distinctive form of dress that exists independent of fashion (hippie, gothic, cowboy, etc)
A particular shape or type of apparel item. The style of a garment is determined by the features that create it’s overall appearance. Specific design details create specific styles (princess style of dress)

28. Tailored Trend Wardrobe
A garment made by cutting fabric pieces and then sewing them together to fit the body.
Trend
The general direction that fashion is moving.
Wardrobe
All the apparel a person owns including all garments and accessories.

29. Fashion Terminology Assignment
For each fashion term…
Write the definition
Sketch a picture example OR
Find a picture that demonstrates that term
Place them all in your smash book.