Clothing Definitions — definition lists for the apparel industry from Apparel Search
Page eight of the clothing definitions is devoted to the letter S, one of the busiest letters in the clothing vocabulary. Suits and sportcoats, sweaters and swimwear, skirts and shorts share the page with the sari, salwar kameez and sarong, with school uniforms and medical scrubs, and with clothing for snow and space.
It is always a good time to learn more about clothing. The following links will help you learn about several different categories of clothes. Take your time, and enjoy your reading.
Sportcoat / Sports Coat / Sports Jacket
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S is the hardest-working letter in clothing. The suit anchors tailored dress — matching jacket and trousers whose definitions branch into fits, cuts and occasions — while the sportcoat loosens the system, pairing a tailored jacket with odd trousers. Shirts, skirts, shorts and sweaters are the separates most wardrobes are actually built from, each with sub-vocabularies of collar, length, rise and knit that a good glossary untangles. The smoking jacket and safari jacket preserve two leisure ideals in cloth: velvet ease at home after dinner, and belted, pocketed khaki built for travel and fieldwork. Suspenders, stockings, stays and the slip remind readers that S also covers the fittings and underlayers that make the visible garments sit correctly.
The sari, salwar kameez and sarong are three draped and wrapped traditions — an unstitched length arranged over a blouse and petticoat, a tunic with trousers and scarf, a wrapped skirt cloth worn around the world — each defined by how cloth meets body without a Western pattern. The stola reaches back to Roman dress, the female counterpart of the toga, while the stole became both a liturgical vestment and an evening wrap.
Institutions dress by S as well: school uniforms standardize students, scrubs protect patients and staff, and smocks shield ordinary clothes from paint, clay and flour. Extremes close the page — ski suits and sun protective clothing manage mountain cold and ultraviolet light, swimwear manages water, and the space suit manages the absence of everything, a one-person environment sewn into a garment. One letter, every human condition: that is why this page runs long.
Page 8 covers Safari Jackets, Salwar Kameez, Sandals, Sari, Sarongs, Scarf, School Uniforms, Scrubs, Shirts, Shoes, Shorts, Skirts, Ski Jacket, Ski Suits, Slip, Slippers, Smocks, Smoking Jacket, Socks, Space Suits, Special Suits, Sportcoat, Suits, Suspenders, Sweater, Sun Protective Clothing, Stays, Stockings, Stola, Stole, Swimwear and more.
School uniforms, worn by students under a dress code, and scrubs, the loose sanitary clothing worn by medical staff, are the principal work and institutional garments on this page, along with smocks worn over clothes for messy work.
A suit is a matching set — jacket and trousers, sometimes a waistcoat, cut from the same cloth. A sportcoat is a tailored jacket worn with non-matching trousers, more casual than a suit jacket.