91. What is secure?
Ans: Fasten permanently by means of a knot, backstitching, etc.
92. What is Self fabric?
Ans: Self fabric means the same material as the rest of the garment.
93. What is Selvage?
Ans: Selvage is the Lengthwise finished edges on all woven fabrics. Running parallel to the lengthwise grain.
94.What is Semi-fitted?
Ans: Fitting to conform partly, but not too closely, to the shape of the figure.
95. What is Serger?
Ans: A machine that overcasts and trims an edge simultaneously.
96. What is Shank?
Ans: The Link between button and fabric to allow for the thickness of overlapping fabric.
97. What is Sheath?
Ans: Sheath means the Close-fitting dress with a straight skirt.
98. What is Shirt waist?
Ans: Dress with bodice details similar to a shirt.
99. What is Shrinking?
Ans: Constricting fabric with steam or
water to eliminate excess in a specific area. Also done to fabric before
cutting out a garment to prevent further fabric shrinkage.
100. What is Silhouette?
Ans: Silhouette means the Outline or contour of a figure or garment.
101. What is Single-breasted?
Ans: Center front closing with enough flap to allow one row of buttons.
102. What is Slash?
Ans: A Cut taken in fabric to facilitate construction or turning of fabric at a point or corner.
103. What is slip stitch?
Ans: A hand stitch used to join two layers of fabric from the right side.
104. What is Stay?
Ans: Stay it Means of maintaining the
shape of a garment area, by using a small piece of fabric or tape that
is sewn to an area of the garment to reinforce and secure a position.
105. What is Stitching?
Ans: Stitching in the technique of
sewing a straight stitch inconspicuously in the seam well on the correct
side of a previously stitched seam. Used to complete waist- bands,
cuffs, collars, and French bias binding.
106. What is a take?
Ans: Tack – Joining two garment layers with small, loose, hand stitches or thread loops.
107. What is Tailoring?
Ans: Tailoring means the Construction
technique requiring special hand sewing and pressing to mold fabric into
a finished garment.
108. What is Taper?
Ans: Cutting or stitching at a slight diagonal, generally to make gradually smaller.
109. What is Template?
Ans: Template is a shape made of a stiff
sub- stance, such as freezer paper, usually the size of the finished
design. (i.e., pocket, applique shape or quilt pattern)
110. What is Tension ?
Ans: Tension – Amount of pull on thread
or fabric during construction. Also the relationship of the needle and
bobbin thread and how they interlock to form the sewing machine stitch,
creat- ing a balanced, looser or tighter stitch.
111. What is Thread count?
Ans: Thread count means the Number of threads in 1 square inch of fabric.
112. What is Topstitching?
Ans: Line of machine stitching parallel to a seam or edge, done from the right side of a garment.
113. What is Trim?
Ans: To cut away excess fabric is called Trim .
114. What is Trimming?
Ans: A Feature added to a garment for ornamentation, such as braid or self - fabric.
115. What is Twill tape?
Ans: A Firmly woven tape used for tailoring to reinforce and prevent stretching.
116. What is Underlining?
Ans: Lining joined in garment seams that is used to give shape or support.
117. What is Under stitching?
Ans: Under stitching is Folding the
entire seam allowance to the facing side or under- side and then
stitching on the correct side of the facing close to the seam edge. This
allows the seam to lie flat and keeps the seam edge from showing on the
correct side of the garment.
118. What is Vent?
Ans: A faced or lined slash in a garment for ease.
119. What is Welt?
Ans: Welt is a Strip of material stitched to a seam, border or edge.
120. What is Wrap-around?
Ans: Wrap-around means the Garment or part of a garment wrapped around a person, such as a skirt.
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