CLASSIFICATION OF FASHION
The Nature of fashion demands are far more complete that most people realize. A fashion professional knows fashion apparel as a unique product, one that reflects self-concept, life-style, change , time and place. Above all fashion is a result of acceptance.
The duration of fashion’s importance is a critical fashion designers or manufacturers concern. A fashion can be brief or of long duration. Once having identified this characteristic, a designer is in a position to assess a fashions importance to the retail inventory.
Fashion is classified into many types such as:
STYLE:
Style is always constant. It does not change where as fashion changes. It is not constant. It is the modification of fashion. Style is the basic outline of any garment. When we add a different neckline and different sleeves with some trimming here and there over a basic garment then the basic garment is modified into a different look or a different outfit, this modification garment will become fashion, when it is accepted by people.
The term style is a popular word in fashion and refers to a sub-division within fashion. By definition, it is that which has certain characteristics that distinguish it from other designs. For example, the fashion could be pleated skirt, yet the style is box pleat. It is a common fallacy to believe that the famous designers create fashions. They create styles which they hope will be accepted. When and if there is consumer support the styles then becomes fashion. It is repetitious but important to stress that fashion is synonymous with acceptance.
BASIC OF CLASSICS:
When a fashion is constant or long lasting, such as, salwar kameez and saree, it is called basic or classic. It is similar to a standard music. The salwar kameez and are part of fashion scene. A customer has one or more in her wardrobe, to be worn to suit different occasions. In certain times, the basics becomes the most important promotable fashion, but, in or out, they remain as a part of the fashion scene. There are many outfits that fall into this classification, such as, chudidhar, kurta, dupattas, shirt and trousers, plain or peated skirts and denims, etc. there are general fashions that lasts for years, such as, the saree, the single breasted men’s suit.
Basics or classics are the outfits which stays in the fashion scene for a long period of time that is from past to present and even in future it stands. When we watch old moview as well as the new movies which is released just, we can see the saris and salwar kameez worn in it may be with a slight change or modification accordingly.
FASHION TREND:
There are certain outfits which are in fashion now. The garment which are currently in fashion scene are called fashion trend. This will be changing very often. They are not as costly as Fad. The garment which is liked by many people will be stitched bulky using better quality of fabric and trimming and sold in the market, so that the garments are not only bought and worn by the upper class, it can also affords the middle class, and then these dresses become fashion trends.
FAD:
A fad is something which can either make a designer’s life more interesting or more tense. Very often something appears on the fashion scene that captures the imagination, only to fizzle out in short duration. Overall, Fad can be defined as short live fashion, lasting for a very little time or period, acceptable by only a certain group of people.
A fashion expert is a selector for consumers selecting what is more likely to be accepted going overboard for short lived fashion. Fad can costly.
FASHION FORECASTING:
This is the important part of fashion scenario because. When any new garment is designed by the designer and worn, it will not create fashion by itself. It needs the media to spread fashion and this media which spread fashion and gets the fame and name to the designers in fashion forecasting. Fashion forecasting is done through many communicating media, such as, cinema, fashion show, press, magazine, newspapers and window display. Fashion forecasting is done where crowd is formed in such occasion, so that it can create fashion.
