Clothing Definitions — definition lists for the apparel industry from Apparel Search
Page nine is the final page of the clothing definitions, running from T to Z. It closes the alphabet with tailoring landmarks — tailcoat, trench coat, tuxedo and white tie — everyday icons such as the t-shirt, tank top and trousers, and garments of ceremony and culture including the wedding dress, veil, turban, yukata and zouave, with links onward to every other definition list.
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The T page holds the summit of formal menswear. The tailcoat, cut short in front and long behind, is the coat of white tie — the most formal dress code in Western dress, completed by white waistcoat, wing collar and white bow tie. The tuxedo, or dinner jacket, is black tie: formal, but a deliberate step more relaxed, born when nineteenth-century hosts wanted evening dress without tails. The waistcoat threads through both, and through three-piece suits and folk dress besides, which is why it earns its own long definition. The trench coat brings tailoring outdoors — a military raincoat whose belt, storm flap and shoulder straps became permanent style vocabulary — while the waxed jacket does similar work in cotton proofed with wax. A tea gown marks formality relaxing at home, and the tailor, also defined here, is the craftsperson who made the whole system fit individual bodies.
Against those formal peaks, page nine sets the most democratic garments ever made: the t-shirt, tank top, trousers and tunic — a shape story that runs from Roman dress to the modern printed tee. Underwear, the union suit and the unitard cover the body's base layers and the stage; uniforms cover organized life from school to regiment. The vest crosses categories, as waistcoat, as underlayer and as protective gear.
Ceremony and culture close the alphabet: the wedding dress and its gowns, the veil in its bridal and religious senses, the turban and yarmulke, the Japanese yukata, westernwear's whole frontier wardrobe, and finally the zouave — a military style borrowed from North African dress, all bright jacket and baggy trousers — and the zucchetto, a small skullcap of clerical dress. Nine pages, A to Z: the clothing vocabulary is complete, and every term links to its full definition.
Page 9 covers Tailcoat, Tank Top, Tea Gowns, Trench Coat, Trousers, T-Shirt, Tunic, Turban, Tuxedo, Underwear, Uniforms, Union Suit, Unitard, Veil, Vest, Waistcoat, Waxed Jacket, Wedding Dress, Wedding Gown, Wellington Boots, Westernwear, Wetsuit, White Tie, Windbreaker, Wrap Skirt, Yukata, Zouave and Zucchetto.
White tie is the most formal evening dress code — tailcoat, white waistcoat and white bow tie. Black tie, represented here by the tuxedo, is the next level down: a dinner jacket with black bow tie.
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