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Streetwear vs. Fashion — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Streetwear and Fashion

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Streetwear

Streetwear is a style of casual clothing which became global in the 1990s. It grew from New York hip hop fashion and Californian surf culture to encompass elements of sportswear, punk, skateboarding and Japanese street fashion.

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.

Streetwear

(fashion) urban fashion; clothing that can be worn on the street

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

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

Fashion

Kind or variety; sort
People of all fashions.

Fashion

Shape or form; configuration
A garden triangular in fashion.

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

(Obsolete) To contrive.

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

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.

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

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

Fashion

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

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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