This page provides you with a quick and ready reference for words in "the language of fashion", words associated primarily with wearing apparel and accessories and whatever goes into the making of them.

Bustle

Pad or frame worn below waist at back to distend skirts. Began about 1870 as connecting link between panniers.
Bishop bustle: Formerly, kind of bustle filled with horsehair (so called by American colonists).
2006-12-14

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Style
2006-12-14

Juliette sleeve

A long, tight sleeve with a puff at the top, inspired by fashions of the Italian Renaissance and named after Shakespeare's tragic heroine
2007-03-15

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