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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