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| style | a particular design, shape, or type of apparel item with unigue characteristics |
| fashion | type of clothing that is widely popular at any given time |
| apparel | general term that includes men's, women's and children's apparel |
| garment | any major article of clothing |
| silhouette | the shape of a clothing style shown by its outer lines |
| fad | temporary, passing fashion or item that has great appeal to many people for a short period of time, then dies out quickly |
| classic | item that continues to be popular and acceptable over a long period of time even though fashions change |
| fit | how loose or tight a garment is on the person who is wearing it |
| draped garments | garment that is wrapped or hung on the human body and has characteristic folds of soft fabric |
| tailored garment | garment that is made by first cutting garment pieces and then sewing them together to fit the shape of the body |
| composite garments | garment made by a combination of the the tailored and draped method |
| haute couture | firms in the high fashion industry of Paris whose designers create original, individually designed fashions |
| ready-to-wear | apparel that is mass-produced in factories according to standard sizes as opposed to being custom made |
| fashion cycle | periodic popularity and disappearance and later reappearance of specific styles or general shapes |
