Roget's Thesaurus

#852. Fashion

Nouns

fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde [Fr.]; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde [Fr.], high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show etc. (ostentation) 822. manners, breeding etc. (politeness) 894; air, demeanor etc. (appearance) 448; savoir faire [Fr.]; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, bienseance [Fr.]; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress etc. 225. custom etc. 613; mode, vogue, go; rage etc. (desire) 865; prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word. man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.] etc. (taste) 850; the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand etc. (nobility) 875; elite etc. (distinction) 873; smart set; the four hundred [U.S.]; in crowd.

Verbs

be fashionable etc. adj., be the rage etc. n.; have a run, pass current. follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend, follow the crowd etc. n.; go with the stream etc. (conform) 82; savoir vivre [Fr.], savoir faire [Fr.]; keep up appearances, behave oneself. set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society; keep one's carriage.

Adjectives

fashionable; in fashion etc. n.; a la mode, comme il faut [Fr.]; admitted in society, admissible in society etc. n.; presentable; conventional etc. (customary) 613; genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite etc. (courteous) 894. polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue [Fr.]; unembarrassed, degage [Fr.]; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast. modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; all the rage, all the go; with it, in, faddish. in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue [Fr.] etc. (ornament) 847.

Adverbs

fashionably etc. adj.; for fashion's sake.

Phrases

a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l' anglaise [Fr.], a l' americaine [Fr.]; autre temps autre mauers [Fr.]; chaque pays a sa guise [Fr.].