bodycon
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
bodycon (comparative more bodycon, superlative most bodycon)
- (fashion, of women's clothing) Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.
- 2016 November 28, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
- 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.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bodycon.
References edit
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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”).