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| color services | fashion & textile professionals who meet twice a year to pool their knowledge of color cycles & preferences and project color trends |
| consumer publications | magazines tha tprovide fashion news and information for the consumer |
| fashion forecasting | foreseeing fashion trends and predicting those trends early enough to allow time for production to meet the consumer demand |
| fashion services | resources for fashion reporting, forecasting, and consulting that are available for a fee or by subscription |
| fashion trend | the direction of movement of public acceptance of color, texture, and silhouette in fashion |
| trade publications | magazines, newspapers, and books that relate current information about and for a specific industry |
| Basic/staples | items that arein constant demand and shoulod always be kept in stock throughout a season or year |
| classic | a style or design that continues to be popular over an extended period of time, even though fashion changes; a fashion year after year |
| decline | the fourth stage in the fashion cycle when the market is saturated and popularity decreases |
| fad | a temporary, passing fashion that has great appeal to many people for a short period of time; a style that gains and loses popularity quickly |
| fashion | styles that are accepted and used by a particular group of people at a given time |
| fashion cycle | the ongoing introduction, rise, peak, decline, and obsolescence in popularity of specific styles or shapes |
| fashion movement | ongoing change in what is considered fashionable |
| fashion followers | those who accept and wear a fashion only after it becomes acceptable to the majority |
| fashion leaders | trendsetters who have the credibility and confidence to wear new fashions and influence the acceptance of new trends |
| flop | a fashion that is introduced and expected to sell but that is not accepted by consumers |
| introduction | the first stage of the fashion cycle when new styles, colors, textures, and fabrics are introduced |
| knockoff | a design copied from a more expensive garment |
| long-run fashions | styles that take a long time to complete the fashion cycle |
| obsolescence | the fifth stage of the fashion cycle when the style is rejected, is undesirable at any price, is no longer worn, and is no longer produced |
| peak | the third stage of the fashion cycle during which a style is at its height of popularity |
| recurring fashions | styles which have been in fashion at one time, gone out of fashion, and come back in fashion again |
| rise | the second stage of the fashion cycle when consumer interest grows and the fashion becomes more readily accepted by customers |
| short-run fashions | styles that are popular for a brief period of time |
| trick-across theory | the assumption that fashion moves horizontally through groups at similar social levels from fashion leaders to followers |
| trickle-down theory | the assumption that fashion trends start among the upper-class or fashion leaders and move down to the masses or fashion followers |
| trickle-up theory | the assumption that fashion trends start among the young or lower income groups and move upward to older or higher income groups |
