Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
This is the second page of the fashion terms that start with the letter “F”. Because of the very popular word “fashion”, we have several terms that begin with the letter F. This page continues the list from fashion boutiques through fashion copyrights: the shops, companies and communities of fashion, and the color language that runs through every season.
This is the second page of the fashion terms that start with the letter "F". Because of the very popular word "fashion", we have several terms that begin with the letter F. We hope that you find the terminology to be both educational as well as enjoyable.
The terms on this page move from the places fashion is sold — boutiques and the Fashion Bug chain — through the business itself and its by-the-numbers side, to the social side of clubs and the seasonal rhythm of collections. Color gets two entries, cues and colors, because choosing and reading color is a discipline of its own, and the page ends with copyrights, the legal protection for fashion designs. Use the links at the end of the term list to move back to the first F page or forward to the third.
Each entry on this page stands alone, with its own definition, explanation and questions, so a reader who arrives from a search engine on the boutiques entry, for example, can read it in full and then use the term list above to continue through the letter in order, or jump to the first or third directory page from the navigation below the list.
Read together, these nine entries describe how a collection reaches a customer: a buyer for a boutique selects it, the business behind the label produces and numbers it, clubs and communities talk about it, and its colors carry the season's message. The copyrights entry closes the page because every one of those steps raises the same question — who owns the design being sold, discussed and worn — and fashion's answer is more nuanced than most industries'. Readers following a single thread, such as color, can move from cues to colors to the forecasting entry on the third page without leaving the letter.
The second F page lists fashion boutiques, Fashion Bug, fashion business, fashion by numbers, fashion clubs, fashion collections, fashion color cues, fashion colors and fashion copyrights, each with its own term page.
The first F directory page covers the terms from fabric testing methods through fashion celebrities, including fall fashion, fashion accessories, fashion apps and fashion bloggers.
Because the word fashion begins with F, the letter holds far more terms than most. Splitting the list across three pages keeps each one short enough to scan.