What are these clothing terms?

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~Karric Jan 22, 2013

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Anyone know what each colored clothing item is called? For the green one, what is that style called.

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~TreyPlaisance Jan 22, 2013

Form fitting bodices that flare out from the waistline to a full skirt. These gowns have a seamless waist.
A fitted or shaped piece at the top of a skirt or at the shoulder of various garments.
A high, wide, straight neckline that runs straight across the front and back, meeting at the shoulders; the same depth in the front and back.

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~Glori305 Jan 22, 2013

Going to depend on the area of the world. The pink bit is commonly called a wrap or shawl in english, but that is something that has been used in cultures all over the world, and has different names around the globe. The blue bit I would call a loincloth.

I would probably refer to the green as a halter top, although the process of taking a piece of fabric and tying it around your back/neck/brests like that is also something else that has happened all over the world and might have many names.

~Karric Jan 22, 2013

Yeah, that's the trouble. I was hoping for explicit terms with no ambiguity. Seems like that's not possible in English.

~Glori305 Jan 22, 2013

Only clothing specific to one region will have that. And even there, if there are multiple laungages, there will be mulitple terms. But a bustle (popular in the 1900's, made your but look bigger) is pretty specific, but there was not an equivilant in Africa.

A Kimono only existed in Japan, and while Korean and Chinese cultures had similar garmets, there were some specific things that made a kimono stand out as individual, making it distinct with no abiguity.

The simpler a clothing item gets, the more common it is, and the less specific you can get for the terminology.

~Fuee Jan 22, 2013 General Artist

Pink is either a shawl or a stole, I think. Teal is a loincloth. I just call green a wrap shirt. No idea if it has a name.

*opiumtraum Jan 22, 2013

if it's sort of Native American? loincloth. But...& I could easily be wrong, again in Native American tradition...I think it was worm mostly by men.

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*opiumtraum Jan 22, 2013

worm? Worn. I think the pink piece would be considered a wrap...the "bra" piece...just a cleverly used scarf...but there might be an term for how it's used...cross-tie or something.

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