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Ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter (often abbreviated RTW; "off-the-rack" or "off-the-peg" in casual use) is the term for factory-made clothing, sold in finished condition, in standardized sizes, as distinct from made to measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame.

Off-the-peg is sometimes used for items other than clothing such as handbags.

Plus size clothing is a term given to clothing proportioned specifically for people whose bodies are larger than the average person's.

The application of the term varies from country to country, and according to which industry the person is involved in.

Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body, or furniture.

Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which a person dresses.

It is the prevailing styles in behaviour and the newest creations of textile designers.

Because the more technical term costume is regularly linked to the term "fashion", the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" generally means clothing, including the study of it.

Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some trends are androgynous.

A fashion accessory is an item used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to the wearer's outfit, often used to complete an outfit and chosen to specifically complement the wearer's look.

The term came into use in the 19th century.

Chic, meaning "stylish" or "smart", is an element of fashion.

Etymology.

is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s.

Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was "not so used in Fr[ench]." Gustave Flaubert notes in Madame Bovary (published in 1856) that "chicard" (one who is chic) is then Parisian very current slang for "classy" noting, perhaps derisively, perhaps not, that it was bourgeoisie.

There is a similar word in German, , with a meaning similar to chic, which may be the origin of the word in French; another theory links chic to the word .

Although the French pronunciation (shēk or "sheek") is now virtually standard and was that given by Fowler, chic was often rendered in the anglicised form of "chick".