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Short sleeve, legless, one piece infant garment with snap or other closure bodysuit [11] onesie, [12] bodysuit One-piece loungewear garment worn by children and adults onesie [12] one-piece, jumpsuit, long johns Long sleeve and long legs one-piece garment for babies worn as sleep and everyday wear babygrow, [13] sleepsuit, [14] babygro [13]
Young woman in a maillot (one-piece) swimsuit in Germany, 1950. In the present day, the phrase "one-piece swimsuit" has almost completely replaced the term "maillot" in colloquial language. While the word has now become somewhat obsolete in common language, fashion designers and consumers used it quite often in the early days of the modern ...
Names for new styles or fashions in clothing are frequently the deliberate inventions of fashion designers or clothing manufacturers; these include Chanel's Little Black Dress (a term which has survived) and Lanvin's robe de style (which has not). Other terms are of more obscure origin.
Today clothing is considered a consumable item. Mass-manufactured clothing is less expensive than the labor required to repair it. Many people buy a new piece of clothing rather than spend time mending. The thrifty still replace zippers and buttons and sew up ripped hems, however.
A one-piece swimsuit most commonly refers to swimwear worn primarily by women and girls when swimming in the sea or in a swimming pool, playing water polo, or for any activity in the sun, such as sun bathing. Today, the one-piece swimsuit is usually a skin-tight garment that covers the torso, although some designs expose the back or upper chest.
Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen in a protective one-piece auto race suit. The late 1960s and 1970s were very important years for the jumpsuit. They were made as sportswear, in leather one-pieces, and also as embellished designs for evening. Jumpsuits found a place in every designer's designs. In the 1970s jumpsuit was a unisex outfit. Cher ...
This category needs a better name. "Suit" implies two or more pieces, making "one-piece suit" close to an oxymoron. Anonymous55 19:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC) The phrase "one-piece suit" turns up 74,500 hits on google. The implied meaning is of a suit (ie. trousers + tunic) which is normally 2 or more pieces, having been made as one piece.
Rompers were in many ways the first modern casual clothes for children. They were light and loose fitting, a major change from the much more restrictive clothing children wore during the 19th-century Victorian era. [3] Styles and conventions varied from country to country. In France they were, for many years, only for boys. [4]