Fashion Influence — how style shapes, and is shaped by, the people who wear it
This is the letter-K index of the Fashion Products guide. All five K product guides are linked directly below, followed by the guide's own introduction to the letter.
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Why is it that style and clothing matters so much to you?
Throughout history, fashion has greatly influenced the fabric of societies all over the world. What people wear often characterizes who they are and what they are wearing. The following clothing categories have an influence on the overall fashion market. In this section you will find clothes, shoes, or fashion accessories that start with the letter "K". There are many reasons why we buy one item of clothing and not another. Discover the most influential apparel.
How does fashion affect society? Maybe it
doesn't. Maybe society affects fashion.
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K collects five guides with almost nothing in common except their initial — which is exactly what an alphabetical guide is for. Khaki Pants is a trouser with a military origin and a color that became a garment name. Kimono is a traditional Japanese garment whose name and sleeve shape traveled into Western fashion and robes. Knee High Boots is footwear defined by a measurement, the boot shaft's height. Knickers is a word that changes meaning across the Atlantic, underwear in Britain and something close to tap pants in the United States. Knit Hats is cold-weather headwear with a dozen regional names. A topical guide would scatter these five across trousers, traditional dress, footwear, undergarments and accessories; the alphabet keeps them findable by the only thing a reader is sure of, the word they are looking up.
Two of the five are also lessons in how fashion vocabulary works. Khaki began as a color — soil-colored, from Hindustani via the British Indian Army — and became the name of the pants made in it. Knickers shows the opposite problem, one word holding two garments depending on where it is spoken, which is why its guide spends as much time on the British and American definitions as on the clothing. Kimono adds a third pattern: a borrowed word whose meaning widened in its new language, from a specific traditional garment to sleeves, collars and bathrobes that share only its styling.
The chip list at the top of this page is the complete letter K: five guides, each exactly once, reached from the G-L range above or from any of the K pages' own navigation.
Five guides: Khaki Pants, Kimono, Knee High Boots, Knickers and Knit Hats, each linked in the chip list at the top of this page.
Khaki: a light yellow-brown, soil-colored shade adopted for military uniforms, whose name transferred to the twill trousers made in that color — the khakis most wardrobes now hold.
Knickers: in British English it means women's underwear, while the similar American garment is called tap pants, and the word must also be kept separate from knickerbockers, the baggy-kneed trousers.