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Fashion vs. Apparel — What's the Difference?

Fashion vs. Apparel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fashion and Apparel

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Fashion

Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. In its everyday use, the term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending.

Apparel

Clothing, especially outer garments; attire.

Fashion

The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior
Out of fashion.

Apparel

A covering or adornment
Trees with their apparel of foliage.

Fashion

Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode
A swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
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Apparel

To clothe or dress.

Fashion

Manner or mode; way
Set the table in this fashion.

Apparel

To adorn or embellish.

Fashion

A personal, often idiosyncratic manner
Played the violin in his own curious fashion.

Apparel

Clothing.

Fashion

Kind or variety; sort
People of all fashions.

Apparel

(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.

Fashion

Shape or form; configuration
A garden triangular in fashion.

Apparel

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

Fashion

To give shape or form to; make
Fashioned a table from a redwood burl.

Apparel

(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Fashion

To train or influence into a particular state or character
The teacher fashions her students into fine singers.

Apparel

(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.

Fashion

(Archaic) To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.

Apparel

(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships appareled to fight

Fashion

(Obsolete) To contrive.

Apparel

(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
Trees appareled with flowers
A garden appareled with greenery

Fashion

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

Apparel

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young.
At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity.

Fashion

(uncountable) Popular trends.
Check out the latest in fashion.

Apparel

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

Fashion

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

Apparel

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Fashion

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

Apparel

To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

Fashion

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
Men of fashion

Apparel

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
Ships . . . appareled to fight.

Fashion

To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

Apparel

To dress or clothe; to attire.
They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

Fashion

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

Apparel

To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.
Appareled in celestial light.

Fashion

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

Apparel

Clothing in general;
She was refined in her choice of apparel
He always bought his clothes at the same store
Fastidious about his dress

Fashion

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Apparel

Provide with clothes or put clothes on;
Parents must feed and dress their child

Fashion

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of his countenance was altered.
I do not like the fashion of your garments.

Fashion

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
The innocent diversions in fashion.
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

Fashion

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

Fashion

Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

Fashion

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.

Fashion

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; - with to.
Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

Fashion

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

Fashion

To forge or counterfeit.

Fashion

How something is done or how it happens;
Her dignified manner
His rapid manner of talking
Their nomadic mode of existence
In the characteristic New York style
A lonely way of life
In an abrasive fashion

Fashion

Characteristic or habitual practice

Fashion

The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Fashion

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);
She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks

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