Fashion Terms and Styles for Women's Garments

These are full lenght pants that flare from the knee to the hemline. If they have a double button and lacing up the back they are sailor pants.

These are pants with a rectangle piece of fabric attached at the waist band of the pant being held up by shoulder straps. (Also called crawlers, overalls, and painters)

These are full length pants that are tailored at the knee adding fullness and gathered at the ankle.

Full pants that are gathered at the waist and at the ankle, if they were knee length these would be Zouave.

These are close fitting with western style pockets in front with yoke and patch pockets on the back.

These are tight pants that end below the knee with braided trim down the sides.

This is a pant and shirt comobnation connected at the waist or top of the pant.

These are low waist slim with a jean fit, and pockets.

This is a body forming pants due to the knitted stretch of the fabric.

Tis is a pant with leg to hem cicumfrence that is less than 18 inches.

This is a pair of slim pants that are ankle lenght, the slim look is from the knitted fabric.

This fit is with ankle lenght pants that taper near the end.

This is a long pant with an extra wide flare from the hip to the hem.

These are pants that are wide at the waist, and slim at the ankle. They may form gathers ant the hem.

These are pants with zipper outside of the legs to mid calf to give a tight fit at the ankles, zippered pockets maybe placed on the outside of the hips and legs.

These are pants that flare above the knee and slim after the knee.

This is where the hem to the knee are wide enoughto fit over western style boots.

This is a square hemmed short that is hemmed 1" to an 1"1/2" below the crotch.

These are mid thigh between bermuda and boy.

Full cut elasticized waist, that are above the knee.

These are short knee length pant that is very close fitting.

These are knee length or shorter with comfortable fullness and patch pockets.

These are knee lenght pants with fullness from pleats or gathers and my be cuffed.

These are tight fitting pants at the end of the knee.

These are fitted pant with hem just below the knee, straigh cut are called peddle pushers.

Mid-calf pants with straigh of fuller cut and cuffed.

These are flared calf-lengthed pants with firm fabric.

These are pants cut at varying lengths between ankle and knee.

These are any style of pant coming to just below the ankle and knee.

These are slim-legged pants that ends several inches above the ankle.

This is full length pants that usually have a front zipper closing and fitted at the waist with darts or pleats.

This is a narrow pant with an extension at the bottum that goes under the foot.

This is a straight skirt with a cut or slit up the side, front or back of the skirt.

Skirt with fullness added by one or more folds of fabric, box, inverted, and knife pleats are held in place by waist band, and others held by edge stitching.

This is narrow pleats that make a circular skirt.

This is a double sided pleat by folds in oppistie direction.

This is the lower portion pleat in the garment.

This is a box pleat inreverse.

This is one or more pleats in the same direction.