First Year Students: Competency 6

Review of key concepts:

• Teenagers are influenced by status to wear designer clothes.
  
• Uniforms are an example of career influence on clothing selection.
  
• Decoration is an influence on accessorizing your outfits.
• The design of a garment is its style.
• The workmanship of a garment is its quality.
• Matched plaids/stripes, straight and even hems, and secure threads are signs of quality workmanship.
  
• When the fashion cycle is in the declining phase a style is overused and becomes boring.
• Read the garment label to learn how to care for a ready-made garment.
• Fabric finishes are chemical treatments applied to the surface of fabrics that make textiles more beautiful and more useful.
• Anti-static fabric finishes keep fabrics from clinging together.
• Flame retardant finishes are mandated by the Flammable Fabrics Act for types of children's wear.