Women's Clothes Guide J

Welcome to the J section of the Women's Clothes Guide. This page lists every women's clothing, footwear and accessories topic in the guide that starts with the letter J — eighteen guides, organized below. J is the letter of everyday dressing: it holds the two hardest-working garments in the modern wardrobe (jackets and jeans), a fabric family (jersey), an exercise kit (the jogging trio), and the only size category in the alphabet with a letter of its own.

The eleven guides in the main list below run alphabetically from jacket dress to jumper dress. The seven juniors guides are grouped separately beneath them — juniors is a size system rather than a garment, and its pages form one connected subject: the category, the fit, the fashion, the trends, and the three garment guides. If you know other women's apparel categories beginning with J that should be listed here, we would be glad to hear the suggestion.

Jackets, Jeans and Jersey: The Working Wardrobe

Start with the pair that anchors most wardrobes. Jackets is the umbrella guide to the whole outerwear family; the jacket dress is its formal relation, a dress sold with its own matching jacket. Jeans covers fits, rises and denim itself, and jean shorts are what jeans become in summer — by the factory, or by the scissors, as they started.

The three jersey guides divide one fabric by garment: jersey shirts (structured knit shirts and the team jersey), jersey t-shirts (the classic tee, its weights and necklines), and jersey tops (the draped, wrapped and layered rest). Read together they explain why a single knit, first made for fishermen, now fills half the casual wardrobe.

The Jogging Trio and the Jumper Dress

Three J guides dress a run from the skin out: the jog bra (sports bra support systems and fit), jogging pants (sweatpants, joggers and fitness pants), and jogging sneakers (running shoes, cushioning and pronation). And the jumper dress — the pinafore — closes the main list as the layering dress worn over blouses and sweaters.

Every J guide follows the same pattern as the rest of this directory: what the garment is, how it is made, how to choose and fit it, and how to care for it — with the shopping links collected in the box above when you are ready to buy.

Juniors: A Department of Its Own

The seven grouped guides below all carry the word juniors, and they are grouped because they are one subject wearing seven hats. Juniors apparel defines the size category — the odd numbers 1 to 15, the slimmer and straighter proportions. Juniors clothing puts that category in the fitting room, side by side with misses and women's sizing, and covers when to switch. Juniors fashion describes the look itself, and juniors fashion trends explains why the look changes faster here than anywhere else in fashion — and which staples never change at all.

The last three are garment guides on the juniors pattern: juniors pants, juniors t-shirts and juniors tops. If you are shopping for a young woman, or you simply fit the juniors proportions, start with the category guide and work down. The rest of the directory works the same way by letter — the alphabet bar below reaches every other section of the Women's Clothes Guide, from A to Z.