working notes. there's so much to cover and i am suffuse with token frenzy as i fucking climb and climb these long and slender lists of words and hope that some long-lost middle-english synonym for a doublet doesn't crop up
single features of a "whole" article are not wholesale; a "tassel" does not have a strong enough relationship to an individual article to be considered standalone, nor a "vamp", "shoelace", "ribbon", even though their use is clear enough. we don't say, "he is wearing shoelaces" as some synecdoche for "shoes", nor "he stomped around in vamps" (i suppose you could, but the usage isn't colloquially well-known, so that is purely literary).
armor is utility-driven, but it is closer to the "utility" defined through "covering, wearing", where "protecting" can be seen as holding a family resemblance; a merkin also, while being non-functional in that sense, is closer to "lingerie", while also satisfying a "complementary" (non-functional, "added") article/garment.
"backpack", "bandoleer", "purse", "handbag", etc., are not applicable, as they are ostensibly utility-driven even if they can be designed as coordinative/complementary (they are not purely so, unless you are a freak).
accessories broadly fit into our category for general apparel, and so we'll choose to posit some tangential relation with the outer/underwear nowise supplicant; for instance, a watch has a functional, utility-based purpose (for telling the time) and is not specifically coordinative, but it is complementary, and can be seen as similarly related to a "wristband" or any other accessory which has the possibility of standing in coordinative relation; in general, the coordinative-complementary nexus need not include both to validate any particular term.
also, we are being rather loose with our use of "wear", "wore" or "worn", which presumably are tied up with our definitions of "clothing" as that (of cloth, or other material) which is "worn" or "covers the body", which does not exclude non-functional ornament which is coordinative and/or complementary. a badge is excluded, since this counts as a second-order accessory.
note: second-order "apparel" is defined as that which is functionally or pairwise functionally supplicant with an article of clothing or garment; a hairclip would not be second-order, while a cockade would be; epaulettes would not be second-order, while aiglets would be.
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rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
working notes. there's so much to cover and i am suffuse with token frenzy as i fucking climb and climb these long and slender lists of words and hope that some long-lost middle-english synonym for a doublet doesn't crop up
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
single features of a "whole" article are not wholesale; a "tassel" does not have a strong enough relationship to an individual article to be considered standalone, nor a "vamp", "shoelace", "ribbon", even though their use is clear enough. we don't say, "he is wearing shoelaces" as some synecdoche for "shoes", nor "he stomped around in vamps" (i suppose you could, but the usage isn't colloquially well-known, so that is purely literary).
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
armor is utility-driven, but it is closer to the "utility" defined through "covering, wearing", where "protecting" can be seen as holding a family resemblance; a merkin also, while being non-functional in that sense, is closer to "lingerie", while also satisfying a "complementary" (non-functional, "added") article/garment.
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
"backpack", "bandoleer", "purse", "handbag", etc., are not applicable, as they are ostensibly utility-driven even if they can be designed as coordinative/complementary (they are not purely so, unless you are a freak).
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
accessories broadly fit into our category for general apparel, and so we'll choose to posit some tangential relation with the outer/underwear nowise supplicant; for instance, a watch has a functional, utility-based purpose (for telling the time) and is not specifically coordinative, but it is complementary, and can be seen as similarly related to a "wristband" or any other accessory which has the possibility of standing in coordinative relation; in general, the coordinative-complementary nexus need not include both to validate any particular term.
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
also, we are being rather loose with our use of "wear", "wore" or "worn", which presumably are tied up with our definitions of "clothing" as that (of cloth, or other material) which is "worn" or "covers the body", which does not exclude non-functional ornament which is coordinative and/or complementary. a badge is excluded, since this counts as a second-order accessory.
May 4, 2025
rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu
note: second-order "apparel" is defined as that which is functionally or pairwise functionally supplicant with an article of clothing or garment; a hairclip would not be second-order, while a cockade would be; epaulettes would not be second-order, while aiglets would be.
May 4, 2025