Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion

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anti-fit denim adj. “Making trips to these cities, purchasing merchandise and supplying them to markets in Calcutta has been my occupation for the past eight months,” says Sajan, in a white T-shirt and blue anti-fit denims. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Retail] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

athleisure adj. An aging and fattened population that’s growing more averse to new clothes, together with growing demand for “athleisure” shoes used both for working in the office and working out at the gym, is pushing footwear to a new round of growth. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Apr. 7, 2006)

balayage n. The salon used a color technique called Balayage to gently cover part of the gray and leave the rest exposed, lending a more realistic finish than harsh, unnatural-looking all-over color. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

balayage n. The way to achieve sun-kissed summer colour this season is with the Balayage technique, a European paint-on colouring method. It creates worn-in, sun-kissed, highlights that mimic the way the sun lightens your hair. It adds masses of beachy texture and complements any style. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

balayage au coton n. The shop has imported a young man named Yvan from the Carita salon in Paris to do what he calls a “balayage au cotton.” Starting at the nape, Yvan lifted out fine strands and applied a lightening paste with a thin brush. Instead of the usual foil wrapping, he tucked pieces of cotton wadding to support the strands in process and keep them from the rest of the hair. When he was three-quarters through, he had used 1,000 feet of cotton stripping and Miss Weston looked as though she were wearing an enormous white wig. The idea of the balayage (the word means sweeping) is to lighten fine strands of hair, rather than add color. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

balliage n. After rinsing the color out, Norika applied thin wisps of highlights throughout her hair using a technique called “balliage” (basically, just sweeping highlights through the hair in a natural way; no chunks of color here). [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

balliage n. Balliage: A technique in which color is painted freehand onto sections of hair. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

balliage n. We just did a balliage…technique with a prelightener, and brought it up to a little bit of a gold and run some styling paste through it, Redken, and it’s absolutely easy and moveable and restylable during the day, and it really shows off the texture and the dimension in the hair. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

basement Betty n. Gibson could face up to a $20,000 fine for being a “basement Betty,” a euphemism for unlicensed hairstylists. Basement Betties are generally only investigated and fined following complaints. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

BCGs n.pl. He also wore thick-framed, Army-issue glasses, an object that earned an unofficial acronym, BCGs—“birth control glasses”—for being remarkably unattractive. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Military Sex & Sexuality Acronym] [full cite] (Mar. 25, 2005)

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