Fashion aesthetics

Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an industry, designs, aesthetics, and trends.

Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to gender expression.

contemporary subculture defined by claims to authenticity and uniqueness

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fashion subculture originating in Japan

Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts (considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior. Flappers have been seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. As automobiles became more available, flappers gained freedom of movement and privacy.

ostentatious style

thumb|200px|right|A or wandering Shibuya in 2007 '''''' (, ) is a Japanese fashion subculture for all ages, often associated with gaudy fashion styles, an extreme makeup style and dyed hair. The term is a Japanese transliteration of the English slang word . In Japan, it is used to refer to young women who are cheerful, sociable, and adopt trendy fashions, serving as a stereotype of culture as well as fashion. The fashion subculture was considered to be nonconformist and rebelling against Japanese social and aesthetic standards during a time when women were expected to be housewives and to fit

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"Chav" (), also "charver", or "scally", or "roadman" in parts of England, is a British term, usually used in a pejorative way. The term is used to describe an anti-social lower-class youth dressed in sportswear. The term has been described as classist. Julie Burchill described the term as a form of "social racism". "Chavette" is a related term referring to female chavs, and the adjectives "chavvy", "chavvish", and "chavtastic" are used to describe things associated with chavs, such as fashion, slang, etc. In Australia, "eshay" or "adlay" has been described as a "try-hard chav".

aspect of history

youth subculture originating in the late-2010s

fashion archetype

interest in a gloomy and sophisticated aesthetic

contemporary Japanese fashion trends

Congolese cultural movement

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clothing style marked by dark, mysterious, antiquated and homogeneous features

thumb|A 1902 illustration of a Columbia University student, containing many of the attributes stereotypically associated with the preppy subculture

fashion trend in women of wearing less skin-revealing clothes

American illustrator (1886–1944)

Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing. Normcore fashion includes jeans, T-shirts, sweats, button-downs, and sneakers.

Form of interior design

set of processes related to the production and use of textile products respecting people, the environment and animals

American 1940s subculture

Drug abuse inspired fashion look

Seapunk is a subculture and internet aesthetic that originated on Tumblr in 2011. It is associated with an aquatic-themed style of fashion, 3D net art, iconography, and allusions to popular culture of the 1990s. The advent of seapunk also spawned its own electronic music microgenre, featuring elements of Southern hip hop and pop music and R&B music of the 1990s. Seapunk gained limited popularity as it spread through the Internet, although it was said to have developed a Chicago club scene.

Madras checks is a colorful cotton fabric with a plaid pattern, originating in Chennai, India. It is yarn-dyed before weaving, lightweight and breathable, and mainly used for shirts and summer clothing.

thumb|Short floaty skirt, 2005 Boho-chic is a style of fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, which, at its height in late 2005 was associated particularly with actress Sienna Miller, model Kate Moss in the United Kingdom and actress/businesswoman Mary-Kate Olsen in the United States. It has been seen since the early 1990s and, although appearing to wane from time to time, has repeatedly re-surfaced in varying guises. Many elements of boho-chic became popular in the late 1960s and some date back much further, being associated, for example, with pre-Raphaelite women of the m

Stilyagi (, , "stylish, style hunters") were members of a Soviet youth counterculture movement from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. A stilyaga () was primarily distinguished by snappy clothing—preferably foreign-label clothing acquired from fartsovshchiks (black market sellers)—that contrasted with the communist realities of the time, and a fascination with zagranitsa, modern Western music and fashions corresponding to those of the Beat Generation. English writings on Soviet culture variously translated the term as "dandies", "fashionistas", "beatniks", "hipsters", or "zoot suiters".

thumb|Yolandi Visser wearing a zef T-shirt Zef () is a South African counter-culture movement.

people identifying themselves as socialists or radical leftists while conducting upper-class lifestyles

Nazi iconography used for shock value

style of men's dress

woman's dress style with a high waist and narrow skirt

ambiguously defined Western dress code

Practice of a couple wearing the same clothing

Japanese fashion subculture

cycling in fashionable everyday clothes

fashion trend

thumb|Woman wearing plaid shirt and jeans, an example of anti-fashion dress

fashion trend and internet aesthetic

style outside of binary gender division

type of fashion

Generation Z subculture

thumb|Plants, animal bones and second-hand objects are all parts of the goblincore aesthetic.