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Female fashion is fashion worn by females. The word female comes from the Latin femella, the diminutive form of femina, meaning “woman” — it is not actually related to the word “male”; the English spelling was altered in the late 14th century so that the word paralleled “male.” On Apparel Search, female fashion is covered in depth as women's fashion: the women's clothes guide, the women's apparel guide, women's fashion news, women's clothing shopping, women's footwear and women's fashion brands.
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Female fashion is fashion worn by females.
The word female comes from the Latin femella, the diminutive form of femina, meaning "woman," which is not actually related to the word "male." In the late 14th century, the English spelling was altered so that the word paralleled the spelling of "male."
Please visit the Women's Fashion page.
According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia (April 2009 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/female), a female is "Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces mobile ova (egg cells). The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male. A female individual cannot reproduce sexually without access to the gametes of a male (an exception is parthenogenesis). Some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually."
If you work in the fashion industry, please join in the discussions about female fashion at the Fashion Industry Network.
Women's fashion is the largest and most closely watched part of the fashion industry: the womenswear calendar sets the rhythm of fashion weeks, and women's categories — dresses, footwear, handbags, jewelry — drive the greater share of fashion retail. That scale is why Apparel Search organizes so much of its site around it, from the letter-by-letter women's clothes guide to the women's brand directories, and why terms throughout this glossary so often take their examples from womenswear.
A reader looking for a garment starts with the women's clothes guide; a reader looking for the business starts with the women's apparel and brands pages; a reader looking for what is new starts with women's fashion news. The shopping page gathers women's clothing stores, and the footwear guide treats women's shoes as a subject of their own — fit, heel heights, boot and sandal families — rather than an afterthought to clothing.
Fashion worn by females — women's clothing, footwear and accessories, and the industry that designs, makes and sells them.
From the Latin femella, diminutive of femina, meaning woman. It is unrelated to the word male; its spelling was changed in the late 14th century to parallel male.
In the Women's Clothes guide and Women's Apparel guide, the women's fashion news directory, the women's clothing shopping page, the women's footwear guide and the women's fashion brands directory.