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Modern trews are more like trousers with the fabric cut on the straight grain but without a side seam, and are often high-waisted, usually to be worn with a short jacket, as an alternative to the kilt. Colonel Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, proved to his own satisfaction that "the truis" was an older dress than kilts. [8]
In Medieval and Renaissance England gown referred to a loose outer garment worn by both men and women, sometimes short, more often ankle length, with sleeves. By the 18th century gown had become a standard category term for a women's dress, a meaning it retained until the mid-20th century.
1. A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Also called a mantua-maker (historically) or a modiste. 2. Dressmaker as an adjective denotes clothing made in the style of a dressmaker, frequently in the term dressmaker details which includes ruffles, frills, ribbon or braid trim.
Informal wear or undress, also called business wear, corporate/office wear, tenue de ville or dress clothes, is a Western dress code for clothing defined by a business suit for men, and cocktail dress or pant suit for women. On the scale of formality, it is considered less formal than semi-formal wear but more formal than casual wear.
A pair of trousers made from chino cloth, generally referred to as chinos. Chino cloth (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / CHEE-noh) is a twill fabric originally made from pure cotton.The most common items made from it, trousers, are widely called chinos. [1]
Gingham dresses were standard attire for most female performers on the Grand Ole Opry until the 1960s, [14] such that the dress code was jocularly known as the "Gingham Curtain" until Jeannie Seely pushed for its abolition. [15] In Marty Robbins's Grammy-winning song "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" (1970), he mentions his wife "in a dress made of ...
The alternative dress style can be described as a "set of signs, borrowed from male clothing, that appeared sometimes singly, sometimes in combination with one another, but always associated with items of female clothing." [10] This alternative dress is a form of non-verbal communication and is different than the "Victorian dress reform" (as ...