Clothing Definitions — definition lists for the apparel industry from Apparel Search
Page three of the clothing definitions runs from D to F. It pairs the dress family — dress shirts, evening dress, full dress and formalwear — with working and protective clothing such as diving suits, flightsuits and flak jackets, and with historical garments including the doublet, farthingale and fichu.
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No garment family shows clothing's social wiring better than the dress. On this page the plain word dress sits beside dress shirts, evening dress, full dress and formalwear, and each step upward adds rules: fabric gets finer, decoration more deliberate, and the occasions narrower. A duster began as a loose coat that kept road dust off good clothes and became a style in its own right. The frock and frock coat carry an older, more tailored formality. Dancewear and dance costumes answer a different brief — clothing engineered to move, stretch and survive rehearsal while still reading clearly from the back of a theatre. Designer jeans show a work garment climbing the same ladder in reverse, from labor to luxury label, without changing its basic five-pocket shape.
The D to F pages also collect clothing designed where failure is not an option. Diving suits and wet suits manage cold water; flightsuits give pilots one garment with pockets, fire resistance and no loose ends near machinery; the flak jacket was built to stop fragments, not fashion critics. Extreme environment clothing is the umbrella term, and its design logic — seal the body, regulate temperature, keep every closure operable with gloves — now influences ordinary outdoor clothing, from taped seams to waterproof zips.
Set against those are the dhoti, a draped garment of wrapped cloth with centuries of use in South Asia, and the draped garment category itself: clothing formed by wrapping and folding rather than cutting and sewing. The farthingale and fichu close the page's historical arc — one built silhouette from hoops, the other softened a neckline with a triangle of muslin or lace.
Page 3 covers Daisy Dukes, Dance Costumes, Dancewear, Designer Jeans, Dhoti, Diving Suits, Doublet, Draped Garment, Dress, Dress Shirts, Duster, Evening Dress, Farthingale, Fashion Design, Fez, Fichu, Flak Jacket, Flightsuits, Flip Flops, Formal Wear, Frock, Frock Coats, Full Dress and Fur Clothing.
Formal wear on this page includes evening dress, full dress and formalwear — the most dressed-up categories of clothing, worn for ceremonies, formal dinners and occasions with a strict dress code.
The doublet, a close-fitting jacket of earlier centuries; the farthingale, a hooped framework that shaped skirts; and the fichu, a light triangular scarf worn over the neckline, are the key historical garments on this page.