Fashionable Adjectives

Sometimes designers must communicate their ideas through words first, so it's important to be familiar with a full range of possibilities.  Fluffy, dense, shimmery, light, heavy, course, or flowy- the words yous select should be an accurate representation of what you imagine.  Listed below are a few suggestions to get you started...

• Aesthetic (also esthetic or esthetic) – [circa 1815-25] cosmetically appealing
• Bedizen – [circa 1655-65] gaudy or showy adornment or dress
• Blousy – loose, frilly manner of (shirt) dressing
• Braw – [circa 1555-65] (Scot & North England) (pronounced "brah") excellent, fine-looking, dressed in a fine or gaudy manner
• Diaphanous – light filmy material, often sheer
• Delicate, Elegant, Fine, Finespun, Gauzy, Gossamer, Insubstantial
• Esthetic (also esthetic or aesthetic) – [circa 1815-25] cosmetically appealing
• Jaunty – [circa 1655-65] easy and spritely (springy) manner; smartly trimmed, as in clothing
• Habiliment – [circa 1375-1425] clothes or clothing worn in a particular profession; accouterments, trappings (i.e. wizard's garb, a nun's habit, a monk's or clerical attire, a baker's outfit with toque (chef's hat))
• Full
• Matte – a flat, non-shiny finish
• Opaque – solid, non-transparent
• Ornamented (ornamentation) – adorned, decorated
• Puffy (sometimes colloquially "poofy") – full, stuffed or filled as to provide voluminous shape or appear greater than reality
• Refined
• Regalia
• Ribboned – to decorate with ribbons; to wind around as a meandering path
• Semi-sheer – translucent fabric
• Sheer – transparent fabric
• Snug – form-fitting
• Stout – stiff
• Stuffed – full, puffy
• Turgid – [circa 1660-70] swollen, distended (as of the stomach filled with gas); tumid; inflated, overblown, pompous, bombastic; excessively ornate, grandiloquent, ostentatiously lofty in style
• Unsavory – [circa 1175-1225] tasteless, insipid, unpleasant in taste or smell; unappealing, disagreeable; socially or morally objectionable or offensive
• Veneer – [circa 1695-1705] superficially valuable or pleasing; to conceal something of lesser or common quality with a deceptively outward show
• Vitiate – [circa 1525-35] make faulty, spoil, impair the quality of, reduce the value of
• Voluminous – of great size, amply full, large in volume or bulk, having many coils (winding)