Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
This section contains concepts and terms that are of interest to members of the apparel industry, fashion industry or textile industry. The goal of this area is to provide information formatted around key topics of interest to the industry in which we work, as well as to the ultimate consumer of fashion products. On this page, you will find areas of interest that begin with the letter “T”. The T terms cover making and production (tagging tools, tailor, tannery, techpack, time and action calendar), textiles (textile measurements, textile waste), retail and resale (thrift shop, trunk show), and the trend family — trend boards, trend forecasting, trend reports, trending fashion and trends themselves. A second T page collects the “types of” garment guides.
This section contains concepts and terms that we feel are of interest to members of the apparel industry, fashion industry or textile industry.
The goal of this area is to provide you with information that is formatted around key topics of interest to the industry in which we work as well as ultimate consumer of fashion products.
On this page, you will find areas of interest that begin with the letter "T".
The T entries fall into a few natural groups. The production group explains the tools and documents a factory works with every day: tagging tools and swift tacks, the techpack that specifies a style, and the time and action calendar that schedules an order from receipt to delivery. The craft group covers the tailor and the tannery — two of the oldest skilled trades in the clothing business. The textile group deals with measurements and units, and with textile waste and recovery. The largest group is the trend family, because spotting, forecasting, boarding and reporting trends is a whole segment of the industry in its own right.
The first T page covers tagging tools, tailor, tannery, techpack, textile measurements, textile waste, thrift shop, TikTok fashion, time and action calendar, the fashion time line from the Victorian era through the 1950s, tiny URLs, top fashion schools, top fashion trends, the Top Five Fashion List 2008, travel fashion, trend boards, trend reports, trending fashion, trend forecasting, trends, trendy, trendy shoes, trunk show, tulle and turf shoes — each reachable from the term list on this page. A second T page adds the types-of guides.
Every T term has its own page with a definition and explanation written for the apparel, fashion and textile industries. The list on this page links to each of them, the More T Fashion Terms link reaches the second T page, and the Fashion Terms Directory links onward to the other letter directories.
The terms are written for members of the apparel, fashion and textile industries and for consumers of fashion products who want a plain explanation of an industry concept.