Fashion vs. Fad

Fashionnoun

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

Fashionnoun

(uncountable) Popular trends.

Fashionnoun

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

Fashionnoun

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

Fashionnoun

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Fashionverb

To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

Fashionverb

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

Fashionverb

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

Fashionverb

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Fashionnoun

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

Fashionnoun

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.

Fashionnoun

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

Fashionnoun

Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

Fashionverb

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

Fashionverb

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; - with to.

Fashionverb

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

Fashionverb

To forge or counterfeit.

Fashionnoun

how something is done or how it happens;

Fashionnoun

characteristic or habitual practice

Fashionnoun

the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Fashionverb

make out of components (often in an improvising manner);

Fashion

Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. In its everyday use, the term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending.

Fadnoun

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

Fadnoun

A hobby ; freak; whim.

Fadnoun

a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time; as, the latest fad in fashion.

Fadnoun

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal;

Fad

A fad, trend, or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follow an impulse for a short period. Fads are objects or behaviors that achieve short-lived popularity but fade away.