Clothes and your Appearance Chapter2 Understanding Fashions

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Clothes and your AppearanceChapter2Understanding
Fashions

• By
• Ms. Haushalter

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Terms to Know

• Fashion
• The particular style of clothing that is popular
  at a given time.
• Fad
• Something new that is popular for only a short
  time.
• Classic
• A style that stays in fashion for a long time.

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What are these examples of?
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• Style
• Type of garment that has specific characteristics
  that make it unique.
• Fashion Trend
• The direction in which a particular change or
  fashion is moving.
• Fashion Cycle
• The return of specific styles and shapes
• Trendsetter
• A person who takes the lead or set an example

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The Fashion Cycle
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Example of a Fashion Cycle
1955 2003
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• Societies
• Groups of people living and working together.
• Culture
• The beliefs and customs of a particular racial,
  religious, or social groups.
• Custom
• A tradition or practice that has been handed down
  from one generation to the next.

Thailand's Karen Padaung Tribe
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• Technology
• The manner of accomplishing a task using current
  technical methods or knowledge.
• Economics
• How a society chooses to produce, distribute, and
  consume its good and services.

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• Ready-to-wear
• clothing made in factories in standard sizes.
• Haute Couture
• a French phrase for high fashion. Couture means
  dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute
  means elegant or high, so the two combined imply
  excellent artistry with the fashioning of
  garments