Your Clothes Speak for You
Evolution of Textiles & Apperal
Understanding Fashion
Figure Types & Pattern Sizes
Body Measurements
100
Decorating the body in some manner
What is Self Adornment
100
Basic unit of all textiles
What is Fiber
100
The particular style of clothing that is popular at a given time.
What is Fashion
100
The set of body measurements used by most pattern companies.
What is Standard Size
100
Measure from center to of shoulder to highest point of bust
What is Shoulder to Bust
200
Covering the body according to what is considered proper b the society in which you live.
What is Modesty
200
Work done on piece or one step at a time for which payment is made at a set rate per unit
What is Piecework
200
The direction in which a particular change or fashion is moving.
What is Fashion Trend
200
Patterns that are designed for either males or females
What is Unisex
200
Measure around arm at fullest part between the shoulder and elbow.
What is Upper Arm
300
The qualities, standards, principles, and ideals, you consider important or desirable.
What is Values
300
Manufactured fibers
What is Synthetics
300
Clothing made in factories in standard sizes
What is Ready-to-Wear
300
Sizinig standards used by pattern companies to group figures according to height and proportion
What is Figure Types
300
Measure around the fullest part
What is Thigh
400
Everything around you including your family, friends, school, and community.
What is Environment
400
A field that includes all the efforts made to inform people through advertising of what is new in fashion and convincing them to buy it.
What is Fashion Promotion
400
The manner of accomplishing a task using current technical methods or knowledge
What is Technology
400
Patterns having several sizes printed on the same pattern tissue.
What is Multisized Patterns
400
Stand tall, without shoes, against the wall. Put a ruller on the top of the head. Lightly mark position on wall. Measure the distance the mark and the floor.
What is Height
500
The mental image a person has of himself or herself
What is Self-Concept or Self-Image
500
The process of adjusting patterns pieces to make garments in a range of sizes. This process is now computerized.
What is Pattern Grading
500
How a society choose to produce, distribute, and consume its goods and services.
What is Economics
500
An extra amount of fullness provided in the pattern to give the garment its special look or silhouette.
What is Design Ease
500
Measure from the center back waist between the legs to center front waist.
What is Crotch Length
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