fashion — OAT

fashion

noun

1 the fashion for figure-hugging clothes:

vogue, trend, craze, rage, mania, mode, fad, fancy, passing fancy;

current/latest style, latest thing, latest taste;

style, look;

general tendency, convention, custom, practice, usage;

informal thing.

2 she was always interested in fashion:

clothes, the clothes industry, clothes design, couture;

glamour;

informal the rag trade.

3 a Victorian lady of fashion:

fashionable society, high society, society, social elite, the beautiful people, the beau monde, the A-list;

informal the jet set.

4 it needs to be run in a sensible and organized fashion:

manner, way, style, method, mode;

system, approach.

5 they built a boat of some fashion:

type, kind, sort, make, design, description.

□ after a fashion

the arrangement worked after a fashion:

to a certain extent, in a way, in a rough way, somehow or other, somehow, in an approximate manner, in a manner of speaking, in its way;

informal ish.

□ in fashion

the Sixties look is in fashion again:

fashionable, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, bang up to date;

smart, chic, elegant;

French de rigueur, à la mode;

informal trendy, with it, cool, in, the in thing, hot, big, hip, happening, now, sharp, groovy, mod, swinging;

North American kicking, tony, fly;

British, informal , dated all the go.

▷antonyms out of fashion.

□ out of fashion

such gallantry is out of fashion:

unfashionable, out of style, no longer fashionable, old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, dated, outmoded, behind the times, last year's, superseded;

unstylish, unpopular;

French passé, démodé;

informal old hat, out, square, out of the ark, old school;

Northern English, informal antwacky.

▷antonyms in fashion.

verb

the head section was fashioned from a separate sheet of lead:

construct, build, manufacture, make, create, fabricate, contrive;

cast, frame, shape, form, mold, sculpt;

forge, hew, carve, whittle, hammer, chisel.