• Cosmetic Application: The use of makeup products to use color, camouflage and enhance the face • Costume: Clothing styles or accessories that are detailed in design or ornamentation • Crepe: A crinkled or mossy surfaced fabric with a dull finish. • Cummerbund: A men’s waistband of solid or patterned silk made with or without upward-facing pleats in place of a formal waistcoat with a singlebreasted dinner jacket. • Ethics: A set of principles of right conduct. It relates to honesty and integrity • Etiquette: Rules governing socially acceptable behavior • Face Shape: Silhouette or outline of the face as it relates to geometric objects: square, circle, triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, heart • Figure Eight: A term describing a body silhouette resembling the geometric shape of a figure eight • Flannel: A medium weight plain fabric with a lightly brushed surface for softness. • Gabardine: A fabric constructed with a steep twill causing diagonal lines on the face of the fabric. • Gender Etiquette: Accepted rules of etiquette as they relate to males and females • Glen Plaid: Plaid fabric made of varying colored checks that have other checks or lines in different colors imposed over them. Historically Scottish. • Grooming: To care for the appearance of; to make neat and trim • Hair Types: Physical characteristics of the hair as it relates to texture, density and condition • Herringbone: A ribbed twill weave in which an equal number of threads slant right and left to form a zigzag pattern similar to that of a fish’s skeleton. • High-Fashion: Styles that are introduced each year by the world’s leading fashion designers • Horse Bit Buckled: A shoe with a buckle similar to the bit on a horse’s bridle. FLC Study Guide - Rev. 2007 11 • Hourglass: A term describing a body silhouette resembling the geometric shape of an hourglass • Houndstooth Check: A medium-sized check pattern with jagged edges resembling those of a four-pointed star or the tip of a dog’s tooth and is not perfectly square. • How To Ask For What You Want: The process of establishing fees for services and confidently and clearly stating them to potential clients • Hue Identification: Color wheel • Hue: The name of the color • Inherent Color: Colors that match a person’s natural coloring as seen in hair, skin and eyes • Intensity: How muted or bright a color is • Introduction: A means of presenting one person to another • Inverted Triangle: A term describing a body silhouette resembling the geometric shape of an upside down triangle • Line: Narrow elongated mark that connects two or more points. Line encloses space and creates shape, whether it is straight or curved. Line defines the shape of the body in clothing. Determines fabric drape • Monk Strap: A shoe with a broad strap across the instep that fastens through a saddle buckle on the shoe’s outside. • Monochromatic: Tints and tones of the same hue in differing values • Muted: Grey and/or the complement added to the hue • Nailhead: A small dotted fabric design, suggestive of the head of a nail, used for worsted wool suiting cloths in a sharkskin weave. • Napping: A fabric finishing process consisting of raising fiber ends of surface yarns on fabrics by means of wire brushes to produce a soft, fuzzy finish. • Neutral: Achromatic or absence of a recognizable hue such as black, white, grey • Oval/Diamond/Apple: A term describing a body silhouette resembling the geometric shape of oval/diamond/apple |
