Garment

Silhouettes
Andrea Wenzl

Bell or Hourglass
Used to
describe a wide
variety of
apparel details
or items that
have the
approximate
shape of a bell
or hourglass

Empire
Used to describe
styles worn the
First Empire in
France or those
derived from or
inspired by
styles of this
period; this
bodice gives a
short-waisted
effect

Flapper
Revivals of styles
inspired by or
derived from
clothing of the
1920s. Typical
dresses were
knee-length, longwaisted blousonand chemisetypes, often
lavishly decorated
with beads for

Trapeze
Unfitted dress
made with narrow
shoulders that
gradually widens,
somewhat like a
pyramid, to a
very wide hem.