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Clothing terminology


 

Clothing terminology comprises the names of individual garments and classes of garments, as well as the specialized vocabularies of

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Garments - Vocabularies

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the trades that have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold clothing over hundreds of years.

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Designed - Manufactured - Marketed - Sold - Clothing

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Clothing terminology ranges from the arcane (watchet, a pale blue color name from the sixteenth century) to the everyday (t-shirt), and changes over time in response to fashion which in turn reflects social, artistic, and political trends.

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Watchet - Sixteenth century - T-shirt - Fashion - Social - Artistic - Political - Trends

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~ Table of Content ~

Introduction
Categories of clothing terminology
Persistence of clothing terminology
Sources of new terminology
References
External references

 

 

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