STYLOREPEDIA

  • A

  • à la

    in the manner or style of (someone or something)

  • accentuate

    make more noticeable or prominent

  • aesthetics

    pertaining to beauty, art and taste

  • B

  • batsuit

    the costume of DC Comics's fictional superhero Batman

  • bohemian

    often termed 'Boho chic', is a fashion and lifestyle choice characterised by its unconventional and free-spirited essence

  • C

  • colour psychology

    Colour psychology is the study of how colours affect human behavior, emotions, and perceptions.

  • E

  • empire waistline

    empire line is a style in clothing in which the dress has a fitted bodice ending just below the bust, rather than at the natural waistline, giving a high-waisted appearance

  • enclothed cognition

    the systematic influence that clothes have on the wearer's psychological processes. The term was coined by Hajo Adam and Adam D. Galinsky

  • ensemble

    a complete costume of harmonising or complementary clothes, footwear and accessories

  • F

  • finesse

    refinement or delicacy

  • G

  • garms

    clothes/garments

  • H

  • hue

    The hue is what we call in color theory a pure pigment. It's a pure color without the addition of any tint or shade (without any white or black pigment).

  • L

  • little black dress

    The little black dress (LBD) is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920s designs of Coco Chanel.

  • P

  • peplum

    a peplum is a short strip of fabric that flounces out from the waistline of a shirt, jacket, skirt, or dress

  • S

  • sartorial

    relating to tailoring, clothes or style of dress

  • silhouette

    the overall outline shape of the clothed fashion figure

  • style icon

    a person who has been influencing fashion choices over the years and is very well known as being highly fashionable.

  • subculture

    a group of people who have a particular interest in or a relationship to a topic, lifestyle, political ideology or a piece of media

  • T

  • tapered

    becoming gradually thinner, narrower, or smaller toward one end

  • tone

    a tone is defined as any hue or mixture of pure pigments that only has gray added in it.

  • torso

    torso length is the distance between the top of the shoulder to the top of the hip bone.

  • trendy

    a specific style in fashion or entertainment that is considered hip or popular during a certain point in time