See also: body-con and body con

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Woman wearing a bodycon dress

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Etymology

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From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.[1]

Adjective

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bodycon (comparative more bodycon, superlative most bodycon)

  1. (fashion, of women's clothing) Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.
    • 2016 November 28, Hadley Freeman, “Melania Trump wants to be a ‘traditional’ first lady like Betty Ford. Good luck with that”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 2016-11-29:
      She has, of late, tried to tone down her usual fembot style – all bodycon dresses and pointed shoulders – with more interesting looks: a jumpsuit here, a pussybow there, a fluted sleeve there.

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References

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  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”).