Fashion, a general term for a currently populair style of practice, especially in clothing, foot wear of accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person. The meer technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion" that the meer general term "costume" has in populair use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress of masquerade wear, while the term "fashion" means clothing generally, and the study of it. For a broad cross-cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume and fabrics. The remainder of this artikel deals with clothing fashions in the Western world.