| A | B |
| composites | textiles combined with other materials |
| basic stock plan | a proposed merchandise list composed mostly of basic staple goods |
| data | numbers statistics, facts, and figures |
| bias grain | diagnol grain of fabric |
| casual lookers | customers who are simple browsing |
| de'cor | the sytle and appearance fo interior furnishing |
| channel of distribution | the route a product takes from producer to consumer |
| demographics | descriptions of poopulations in terms of age, gender, income, education, ect. |
| business cycle | changes in the economic activity over a period of time |
| commodity project | in fashion, staple goods that hardly ever change design and are fairly constant in demand |