Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
Some fashion terms begin with a number rather than a letter, so they have their own directory page instead of a letter section. The number terms cover three fashion decades — the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with the 1990s fashion history linked from the definitions section — two 3D printing topics (3D printing in fashion generally, and 3D printed shoes specifically), and 3PL, the third party logistics arrangement many fashion companies use for warehousing and distribution. The term list sits directly below, so every number term is one click away.
We hope that you find the following explanations of industry terms to be helpful for your research.
Some fashion terms begin with a number rather than a letter: the decade guides for the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the 3D printing and 3D printed shoes pages, and the 3PL logistics page are grouped here so they can be found in one place. The 1990s fashion history page, linked from the list, lives in the definitions section.
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The decade guides are the heart of this section. The 1960s page traces a decade that broke fashion traditions — miniskirts, bell-bottoms, tie-dye and the hippie look alongside Jacqueline Kennedy's classic elegance. The 1970s page follows on through platform shoes, polyester and disco, and the 1980s page covers the decade of shoulder pads, power suits, leg warmers, neon and Madonna. Read in sequence, the four decade pages (with the 1990s history linked in) give a compact tour of how fashion moved from postwar formality to the end of the twentieth century.
The remaining terms are working industry vocabulary. The two 3D printing pages split the subject by scope: one explains additive manufacturing for clothing, accessories and jewelry in general, and the other applies the same technology to footwear, where a scan of an individual foot can produce a shoe fitted to that foot alone. The 3PL page explains third party logistics — outsourcing warehousing, pick and pack and distribution to a specialist provider — with the advantages and the loss-of-control trade-offs a fashion company weighs before signing up.
Start with the term list directly under the introduction — those links are the whole number section. Readers looking for a term that starts with a letter can use the letter bar below, which reaches every letter directory from A to Z, or Fashion Terms by Category, which groups terms around subjects rather than spellings. The full Fashion Terms Directory ties both halves together across its two listing pages.
The number section covers 1960's fashion, 1970's fashion, 1980's fashion, a linked 1990's fashion definition, 3D printed shoes, 3D printing fashion and 3PL fashion industry logistics — each reachable from the term list on this page.
Alphabetical directories have no letter to file a number-led term under. Grouping the decade guides, the 3D printing pages and the 3PL page here keeps them findable alongside the A to Z letter directories.
The 1990's fashion history sits in the definitions section of Apparel Search rather than in this number folder, and the term list on this page links straight to it so the decade sequence stays complete.