FFM Exam 1 Study Guide – Practice Questions, Flashcards & Exam Review
Fashion - ✔✔A prevailing custom, usage or style that is accepted widespread by a group
Marketing - ✔✔Identifies customers needs and develops products
Merchandising - ✔✔Sales promotion as a comprehensive function
T/F fashion acts an influence on women only - ✔✔The male fashion has seen the biggest
growth
T/F Designers dictate fashion - ✔✔consumers actually drive fashion
Fashion is unpredictable - ✔✔Short term is predictable, long term is not
Style - ✔✔Distinctive appearance of a garment
Style number - ✔✔number assigned to a design by a manufacturer and retailer
Identifies the product
High fashion - ✔✔1. A new style accepted by a limited group, are the first to accept a trend
2. haute coutoure
High fashion is NOT about - ✔✔Price
Haute couture - ✔✔Chamber in paris with couture ready to wear
, Couture - ✔✔Fitted to a persons body
Taste - ✔✔Refers to prevailing opinion of what is or isn't appropriate for a given occasion
Classic - ✔✔A style that satisfies the needs and remains in generational fashion
Example of a classic - ✔✔Little black dress
Fad - ✔✔Sweeps into popularity then disappears
Trend - ✔✔General direction or movement in something developing
Silhouette - ✔✔overall outline or contour, aka shape or form
NOT silhouettes - ✔✔Ruffles and pleats
Details - ✔✔Trimmings, skirt and pant length (hemline) and width,shoulder waist sleeve
treatment, shape of neckline
Texture - ✔✔Effects the look and feel of the material, affects the drape and color of the
garment
fashion cycle stages - ✔✔introduction, rise, culmination, decline, obsolescence
Culmination - ✔✔the highest point of popularity
Fashion - ✔✔A prevailing custom, usage or style that is accepted widespread by a group
Marketing - ✔✔Identifies customers needs and develops products
Merchandising - ✔✔Sales promotion as a comprehensive function
T/F fashion acts an influence on women only - ✔✔The male fashion has seen the biggest
growth
T/F Designers dictate fashion - ✔✔consumers actually drive fashion
Fashion is unpredictable - ✔✔Short term is predictable, long term is not
Style - ✔✔Distinctive appearance of a garment
Style number - ✔✔number assigned to a design by a manufacturer and retailer
Identifies the product
High fashion - ✔✔1. A new style accepted by a limited group, are the first to accept a trend
2. haute coutoure
High fashion is NOT about - ✔✔Price
Haute couture - ✔✔Chamber in paris with couture ready to wear
, Couture - ✔✔Fitted to a persons body
Taste - ✔✔Refers to prevailing opinion of what is or isn't appropriate for a given occasion
Classic - ✔✔A style that satisfies the needs and remains in generational fashion
Example of a classic - ✔✔Little black dress
Fad - ✔✔Sweeps into popularity then disappears
Trend - ✔✔General direction or movement in something developing
Silhouette - ✔✔overall outline or contour, aka shape or form
NOT silhouettes - ✔✔Ruffles and pleats
Details - ✔✔Trimmings, skirt and pant length (hemline) and width,shoulder waist sleeve
treatment, shape of neckline
Texture - ✔✔Effects the look and feel of the material, affects the drape and color of the
garment
fashion cycle stages - ✔✔introduction, rise, culmination, decline, obsolescence
Culmination - ✔✔the highest point of popularity
