Vocabulary
Specific color that can be identified by name.
What is a Hue?
The stripes on a sweater, a scoop neckline on a T-shirt
What is a line?
Uses tints and shades of a single color
What is Monochromatic?
The four basic clothing shapes
What is Natural, Bell, Tubular, and Full?
Produces the fibers and fabrics that clothes are made from.
The lightness or darkness of a hue
What is value?
The outline of a garment
What is shape?
Uses colors directly across from one another on the color wheel
What is Complementary?
Follows the body's outline
What is Natural?
Sells apparel and accessories to consumers
What is Fashion Merchandising?
The color is lighter in value
What is a tint?
The area within the outline of a garment or outfit
What is Space?
Uses two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
What is Analogous?
Rectangular with no waistline; can make you appear taller and slimmer
What is Tubular?
The four segments to the fashion industry
What is the textile industry, the apparel industry, fashion merchandising, and fashion promotion?
The way one part of a design relates in size to another part and to the whole design
What is proportion?
People usually notice this first when looking at a garment
What is color?
Uses one color, plus the two colors on either side of its complementary color
What is Split-complementary?
Can add contours and make the wearer appear shorter
What is Bell?
Experts in fashion promotion use ads and publicity photos to influence consumers as a group.
What is Fashion Promotion?
The design principle technique of drawing attention to a particular place on a garment
What is an emphasis?
The way a fabric looks and feels
What is Texture?
Uses any three colors that are equal distance apart on the color wheel
What is Triadic?
Has more horizontal and curved lines than the other shapes. Makes the body look larger.
What is Full?
“Rag Trade or Garment Industry,” employ designers to produce their brand’s “look” for the season, then buy material and mass produce their clothing collection.
What is the Apparel Industry?