Miscellaneous Definition List Page 2

Page two of the miscellaneous definitions runs from D to I. Construction and fit dominate — darts, dress sizes and the European EN 13402 standard, dressmaking and hems — alongside fabric measures such as denier, processes such as dry cleaning, retail ideas including dress code and flagship stores, and garment features from double-breasted fronts and epaulettes to the empire silhouette, fringe, halterneck and hood.

Learn more about fashion and textile relevant terms. We were not sure the best category for these particular terms so we created the Miscellaneous definition section.

Miscellaneous Definitions: page 2

Epaulette / Epaulettes

European Clothing Size Standards (EN 13402)

Hood / Hoods

Fit and Measure: Darts, Denier, Dress Sizes

Page two is the miscellaneous list's measurement chapter. A dart is a stitched fold that removes cloth in one place so a flat fabric can fit a curved body — the simplest piece of garment engineering there is, and the difference between a sack and a bodice. Denier measures fineness by weight, giving hosiery and filament yarns a number a buyer can specify. Dress sizes are the industry's most argued numbers: the page defines them alongside the European EN 13402 standard, which tried to replace vanity and habit with body measurements in centimeters, and the older national systems the standard hoped to harmonize. Hems and hemlines carry fit into fashion — the hem is construction, the hemline is the fashion cycle's favorite graph, rising and falling with decades. Elastic, defined here as material and concept, changed all of it: waists, cuffs and straps that fit by stretching removed a hundred fittings from everyday dress.

Silhouette, Surface and the Business Around Them

The empire silhouette lifts the waist to just under the bust — a shape that returns whenever fashion wants length and flow — while double-breasted construction overlaps a front for symmetry, warmth and authority, and epaulettes carry military rank onto shoulders civilian jackets still borrow. Engageantes, detachable sleeve ruffles, fringe edging and the halterneck line are surface and cut decisions a designer names precisely. The dobby loom weaves small geometric patterns into cloth; ikat dyes the pattern into the yarn before weaving, the image emerging, slightly feathered, on the loom.

Around the garments stand the businesses: dry cleaning, the solvent process that cares for clothes water would ruin; dressmaking, the craft trade of making women's clothing to order; flagship stores, a brand's largest and most theatrical shops; and the garment district, the dense city quarters where design, sample rooms and factories historically shared streets. Page two's miscellany is really the industry's connective tissue — measures, shapes and services that every other list assumes.

Common Questions

Which terms are on miscellaneous page 2?

Darts, Denier Measurement, Dobby Loom, Double-Breasted, Dress Code, Dressing Room, Dressmaking, Dress Sizes, Dry Cleaning, Elastic, Empire Silhouette, Engageante, Epaulettes, European Clothing Size Standards EN 13402, Flagship Stores, Fringe, Garment District, Girdle, Grommet, Halterneck, Hangers, Hemline, Hems, Hood and Ikat are among the page 2 terms.

What is denier?

Denier is a measure of the fineness of a filament or yarn: the mass in grams of 9,000 meters of the material. Lower denier means finer fiber, which is why sheer hosiery is described in low deniers.

What is EN 13402?

EN 13402 is the European standard for clothing size designation, which labels garments by body measurements in centimeters rather than by conventional numbered sizes, aiming for consistency across brands and countries.