Clothes vs Fashion - What's the difference?
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(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (obsolete) .
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
* Prior
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (uncountable) Popular trends.
* John Locke
* H. Spencer
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
In obsolete terms the difference between clothes and fashion
is that clothes is plural of lang=en while fashion is to forge or counterfeit.As nouns the difference between clothes and fashion
is that clothes is items of clothing; apparel while fashion is a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.As verbs the difference between clothes and fashion
is that clothes is third-person singular of clothe while fashion is to make, build or construct.clothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
Derived terms
(terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothesSee also
* clothing * gear * threadsEtymology 2
fashion
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fashion)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
- 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.
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
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- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)