bodycon

English

Alternative forms

• body-con, body con

Etymology

From Japanese body-con (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young women in the late 1980s and early 1990s.^[1]

Adjective

bodycon (comparative more bodycon, superlative most bodycon)

1. (fashion, of women's clothing) Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

Quotations

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References

1. ^ Narumi, Hiroshi "Street Style and Its Meaning in Postwar Japan" Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2010 , pp. 415-438 (24):

   The body-con was a young women's subculture, the main feature of which was wearing dresses closely fitted to their bodies (“Body-conscious dress”).