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A faciale was a face-cloth for a corpse.
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Faggoting is a type of cross-stitch used to make an open, decorative joint between two edges of fabric, often the seam of a garment.
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A faille was a kind of hood or veil worn by women during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Faille is a light, soft, glossy silk or rayon cloth fabric with a cross-wise rib effect. It is similar to grossgrain, but much softer. It has been used since the mid 19th century in the manufacture of women's garments, especially coats and dresses.
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The Fair Isle sweater or jacquard is a Scottish crew-neck sweater characterised by horizontal stripings of colourful geometric symbols and shapes across the front of the garment, only two colours being used in any one row.
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Falding or Faldyng was a type of coarse woollen cloth. The term was also applied to a garment made from the cloth.
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A fall is a button-up flap at the front of a man's pair of breeches.
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In terms of costume, a fan is a portable, usually folding in Europe, rigid and mounted on a handle in the Far East, and sector-shaped, device for moving the air to cool one's face. Fans were invented in China and Japan where both folding and rigid forms were at different times popular. In Europe, folding fans were introduced around the 16th century, becoming almost unused in Britain by 1900.
Fans were an essential fashion accessory for women during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Britain and Europe and had their own strict etiquette and language, although the English language of fans was much reduced compared to the Spanish. In England, a woman holding her closed fan could touch the tip to her right cheek to convey 'yes' and to her left cheek to convey 'no'. Similarly, if the fan was held open to cover the eyes, it conveyed the message 'I love you', while lowered until pointing at the ground, it conveyed the opposite message of 'I despise you'.
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A Faraday suit is a metal jump suit with fitted gloves worn by electrical engineers to enable them to safely work on high tension power lines. The suit works on the Faraday Cage principle, that it the suit conducts the electricity, but within the conductor there is no charge, and the engineer is protected from the lethal electricity.
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The Farquharson Tartan is a clan tartan.
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A farthingale was a hoop made of whalebone, steel or wood and used in its most extreme form in the 17th century as a support for wide spreading skirts. The farthingale originated in Spain and was the precursor of the crinoline.
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A favour is a ribbon tied into a bow.
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A favourite is a false curl on the temple, or a curl of hair on the temple plastered with some cosmetic. The name is also given to whiskers made to meet the mouth.
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A fedora is a soft felt or velvet medium-brimmed hat, with a centre crease running from the front to the back of the crown, and usually decorated with a band.
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A feile mor is a man's Scottish garment consisting of six yards of cloth folded lengthways into pleats, wrapped around the waist and fastened with a belt, the remainder of the material being draped around the upper body, fixed to one shoulder and allowed to fall down the back. The feile mor started to be worn in Scotland from the 17th century, replacing the shirt.
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A fez is a truncated, slightly conical, brimless cap with a tassel on the top. The fez originated in Turkey.
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A fichu is a length of fabric worn around the neck and shoulders as a fill-in for a low-cut gown or dress.
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A field hat is a peaked cap made of fabric with a leather peak, as worn by American soldiers.
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A fillet was a band worn as a head-dress in ancient times.
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A fillibeg or philibeg is a kilt reaching nearly to the knees worn by some Scottish Highlanders.
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A finnesko is a type of boot made from tanned reindeer hide with the hair left on the outside.
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A fishtail skirt is a style of skirt which is shorter in the front than it is at the back, often knee length at the front and reaching the ground at the back. Fishtail skirts were popular in the West during the 1930's.
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In costume, the fishwife is a style of dress that was popular for girls around 1880 to 1885. The fishwife draped overskirt was a long, loose, ankle length skirt that had an integral bodice and was often made from a different fabric than the underskirt, and was gathered at the back and occasionally at the front also.
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A fitchet is a vertical opening at the hip of a dress or surcoat so as to allow the wearer to put their hand through and onto something underneath, perhaps a pocket in an undergarment.
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A flange dart is a partly stitched dart, the remained being laid free like a pleat.
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Flannel is a woollen fabric of loose texture and various degrees of fineness, much used as a clothing both in hot and cold countries from its properties of promoting insensible perspiration, which is absorbed and carried off by the atmosphere. Welsh flannels attained a high reputation. In traditional flannel shirtings the wool was frequently mixed with silk, linen, and cotton.
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Flannelette is a light cotton fabric, made in imitation of flannel, having a longish nap, often used as a material for underclothing. It readily catches fire, and has caused many serious accidents. The name is, however, sometimes given to a very soft flannel.
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A flapper dress is a shift-shaped dress with beaded trim named after the dresses worn by 1920's American 'flapper' women.
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Flares are a style of trouser fitted and shaped normally to the knee and then flaring outwards as the leg travels towards the ankle.
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A flatlock seam is the most frequently used type of seam found in clothing, and comprises the two edges of the fabric being pressed open and flat before being joined.
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During the 1920's the fashion for women was to conceal the swell of the bust, and the flattener brassiere while providing little or no support for the breasts did flatten them as required by the fashion of the day.
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A flesh tunnel is a cylindrical-shaped ear adornment which passes through and stretches a hole in the earlobe.
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Fleshings is an old alternative name for tights.
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The Fleuss dress was a form of diving suit in use in the Victorian era which enabled the diver to be independent of exterior aid. The helmet contained a supply of compressed oxygen, and the exhaled breath was passed through a filter in the breast-piece which deprived it of its carbon dioxide, while the nitrogen went back into the helmet to be mixed with the oxygen, the supply of which was under the diver's own control, and to be breathed over again. A diver has remained an hour and a half under 35 feet of water in this dress.
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A flip flop is a simple rubber-soled sandal with a strapping that fits between the big toe and second toe.
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A floor length skirt, also known as a dinner skirt, is a long skirt reaching to the floor.
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Floss-silk is the portions of ravelled silk broken off in reeling the silk from the cocoons, carded and spun into a soft coarse yarn, and formerly used for common fabrics, embroidery, etc.
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A flounce is a wide ornamental strip of material round a girl or woman's skirt, gathered and sewn by its upper edge so that its lower edge hangs full and free. The term flounce also applies to a circular cut frill set into a seam or at a hem, resembling ruffles.
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A flying jacket is a leather, waist-length, usually brown coloured, fleece-lined blouson style jacket with two hand-warmer pockets, as first worn by American pilots during the Second World War.
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A fontange was a lady's headdress named after the Duchess of Fontange, mistress of Louis XIV of France and worn by women at the beginning of the 18th century. It was a structure of wire which bore up the hair and a lace cap to a great height.
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A four-in-hand is a long neck tie with wide ends worn tied in a knot with the ends hanging down.
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A fourragere is an ornament or cord worn on the shoulder in some American and French military uniforms.
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The Fraser Dress Tartan is a clan tartan.
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French drawers are a type of drawers or full knickers with no drawing at the hem. They are worn under a full skirt.
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French knickers, also known as cami-knickers, are women's full, soft, knickers typically made from silk for comfort.
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The French maid is a fantasy outfit based upon the traditional maid's uniform of a short, black skirt and matching black blouse with white lace trim and a white lace apron. The fantasy French maid's outfit varies enormously, but is basically comprised of a black skirt and blouse coupled with white lace trimmings of an apron and fishnet stockings. As a popular fetish item, French maid outfits are sometimes made from PVC.
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A French seam is a style of seam used in the manufacture of garments from sheer and lightweight fabrics. The seam is made from a normal seam, which is then trimmed and turned to the wrong side and another seam made sandwiching the raw edges within it.
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Frieze is a kind of coarse woollen stuff or cloth, with a nap on one side.
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A fringe is an ornamental border made from loose threads, or twists or tassels. The ancient Jews wore fringes on their clothes, those fringes on the hems of priests were considered sacred and were frequently touched by the common people for good luck and as a charm against ills.
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A frock-coat (or frock coat) is a man's double breasted long-skirted coat that is not cut away in front first produced in the early 19th century, and by the late 20th century worn chiefly at formal occasions. A frock-coat is fitted to the waist with skirts hanging from a waist seam.
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A frog or frog fastening, is an ornamental fastening for the front of a coat consisting of a button and a loop of braid or cord through which it passes, rather than the usual button-hole. Frog fastenings are typically found on military and oriental garments.
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A full pique seam is a seam in which the cloth is wrapped under or over itself and stitched.
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A furisode was a Japanese, long-sleeved mourning garment made of silk and frequently worn by priests during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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A fustanella is a full, stiff, pleated white skirt worn by men in Greece and Albania.
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Fustian is a cotton or mixed linen and cotton fabric with a pile like that of velvet but shorter. It includes corduroy, moleskin, velveteen, etc.
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