Fashion terms
Tailoring
Tailoring shapes fabric through pattern engineering, internal structure, pressing and precise assembly.
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Explore terms that describe cut, proportion, craft and garment behaviour. Precise language makes conscious choice and quality assessment easier.
Fashion terms
Lining
A lining is an inner layer that can improve comfort, opacity, movement and the stability of a garment.
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Silhouette
Silhouette is the overall outline a garment creates around the body before attention moves to smaller details.
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Gathering
Gathering distributes a longer fabric edge into a shorter seam, creating controlled fullness.
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Pleat
A pleat folds fabric back on itself to organise volume, movement or decoration.
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Dart
A dart removes controlled volume from flat fabric so that it can follow a three dimensional body.
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Selvedge
A selvedge is the stable edge formed along the length of woven fabric during production.
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Seam allowance
Seam allowance is the strip of fabric between a stitching line and the cut edge.
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Capsule wardrobe
A capsule wardrobe is a limited, intentional group of garments designed to create many coherent combinations.
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Fabric weight and GSM
Fabric weight is often expressed in grams per square metre and indicates how much a defined area weighs.
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Drape
Drape describes how a fabric falls, folds and responds to gravity around the body.
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Bias cut
A bias cut places pattern pieces diagonally to the grain, allowing woven fabric to follow the body with greater fluidity.
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