Vocabulary List1

Chapter1, About Design

Mengting Zhang
01/18/19
Fashion021,Tricia Angerhofer

1. Season Each year garment labels release new designs at specific time with
other companies.

2. Market Week Is business network,refers new fashionable garments soon to

be launched to sold.

3. Coordinate Line Appeal to shoppers who see the pleasing colors and
garments in the area, and want to try on more than on piece.

4.

Item Line A single garment that will be sold alone.

5. Knock-off

Items are often copies of very popular designer styles,

reproduced at a cheaper price for mass production.

6. Price Point What the item will sell for

7. Collection These coordinate groups are produced by the designer in sets

called collections

8. Line A moving point or dot, a connection between two points

9. Trend A trend is the direction in which styles, colors, fabrics, and designs are
tending to change

10. Header Combination of text and images that can be made to appear at the top
of each page when displayed or printed.

11. Designer Is a name for person who creates clothing and layout by themselves

12. Merchandiser The manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.

13. Lead Time Most companies in the U.S. require four to six months to prepare a
line from the original concept through delivery to the store. During this time,
they research,design,sample making and fitting,editing the line, selecting
textiles and colors and getting the technical aspects refined before going into
production.

14. Couture/Haute Couture High costs,High Sewing,High level of the industry

in which clothing is made of high quality and highest prices

15. Pret-a-porter Typically referred to as Ready-to-Wear.

16. Wholesal Price The best price sells merchandise for customers who buy large
quantity

17. Retail Price The final price charged for a merchandise and sold to customer,
retail price include produces coast, rent,shipping charge, etc.

18. Size Range - define; list five of them Sizing is not regulated, there arent
any universal measurements
Misses: Cut to fit the average adult woman between 5'5" and 5'9". Includes regular
even-numbered sizes 4-20, tall sizes 12-20, and sometimes sizes as small as 0-2.
Juniors: Includes regular sizes 5-17 and petite sizes 1-15.
Petites: includes misses' even-numbered sizes 2P-16P and junior sizes 1P to 15P.

Women's : For women over 5'4." May overlap with misses, starting with even sizes
at 18 -26 or 28 and 26 - 52. Also includes XL - 5X.
Women's Petites: For women 5'4" and under. Shorter sleeves, skirts, and pants.
Collars, pockets, and other details scaled down. Includes even-numbered sizes 12WP
- 26 WP.

19. Price Range - define; list nine of them Major factors that contribute to the
pricing of garments include the quality of materials, the quality of the
workmanship, the amount of labor required to produce the garment and
company overhead. List : Haute Couture, Pret-a-porter,Designer Signature,
Bridge, Contemporary, Better, Upper Moderate, Budget

20. Elements of Design - define; list (eg., color, etc.) The elements of design are
the ingredients. List of Elements of Design: Line, Shape, Form, Space,Texture,
Light, Pattern, Color.

21. Principles of Design - define; list (eg., balance, etc.) The methods by which
the elements combine are called the principles of design.List of Principles of
Design: Balance,Emphasis, Rhythm, Proportion, Unity

22. Aesthetic Design Relating to beauty or to the study of principles of

beauty,especially in Art.

23. Structural Design Structural design is that which determines form but not
surface ornamentation.

24. Functional Design Refers to the way that a fashion works or performs
physically.

25. Silhouette Its a outline contour or shape of the fashions.