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| self-help features | Attributes of garments that enable children, as well as people with disabilities or older people, to dress themselves. |
| toiletries | Personal care products used in grooming |
| fine jewelry | Expensive jewelry, usually of very high quality, of genuine metals and gemstones, and retailed by jewelry stores. |
| bridge jewelry | Good quality jewelry made to look like fine jewelry but less expensive |
| double-ticket sizing | Marked with two combined but similar size numbers in different categories. |
| fragrances | Products that add a pleasant scent. |
| costume jewelry | “Fashion jewelry” that is inexpensive, often of plated metals and artificial stones. |
| cosmetics | Products to be applied to the face, skin, or hair to improve appearance |
| growth features | Attributes of garments that allow them to be “expanded” as children grow |
| dual sizing | A combination of two size dimensions, such as neck plus sleeve length combinations (men’s shirts), or waist plus inseam combinations (men’s slacks). |
| men’s tailored jackets | fashion emphasis is more on fabric design than on new styling |
| menswear companies | larger sizes of boys apparel are often manufactured by these |
| women's Suit separates | include jacket with skirt OR pants |
| Hosiery | includes all varieties of socks and nylons |
| Mass market | these cosmetic lines are usually sold in the “health and beauty aids” sections of retail stores. |
| misses size | of average height, weight, and proportions |
| women’s apparel | manufacturers intentionally make their designs to fit a particular target customer so that these sizes in one manufacturer fit consumers differently |
| downsize | marking garments with smaller sizes than less expensive lines made for the same measurements |
| active sportswear | Garments used for sports participation and also worn during leisure time |
| Suit separates | allow for more accurate fit with separate tops and bottoms, extend men’s wardrobes for business and casual occasions, mix and match various jackets with different pants, which extends men’s wardrobes |
| Classifications | These for menswear includetailored clothing, furnishings, and work clothing |
| infantswear | heights and weights of infants |
| Accessories | often impulse purchases because consumers buy them on the spur of the moment without much planning |
| Small leather goods | also called flatgoods include wallets, billfolds, coin purses, and small cases for business cards |
| Brand-line representatives | sell prestige lines of cosmetics |
| growth feature | adjustable shoulder straps |
| Substitutable goods | items that can be used in place of each other |
| Extenders | are “multipliers” that can be mixed and matched within a wardrobe for more outfits, can be used to update garments that were already owned become more important in poor economic times |
| Childrenswear | consider fall to be the most important season because it features back-to-school wear |
| Shoes | length in half-size numerical increments and widths indicated by letters |
