Talk:Style line

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Hi, I added back the Clothing category, since style lines may be found in knitted or crocheted garments, as well as sewn garments. I hope that's OK with everyone? WillowW 16:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about edges?

"A style line is a boundary between two distinguishable areas of fabric"

Compare Neckline:

"The neckline is primarily a style line, but it can also be a boundary for shaping"

Necklines tend to be edges of the garment. In other words, a neckline isn't a boundary between two distinguishable areas of the garment, but between the garment and a part of the body not covered by it. A similar concept is where and how a sleeve ends.

Which is the correct definition? -- Smjg 20:05, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that, Stewart, I should've been more careful. As I understand it, "style line" is a general term that includes fabric boundaries such as the neckline and hemline. However, it's often used in a specialized sense as a "purely cosmetic fashion line"; in that case, it signifies only the boundary between two fabric areas. Does that makes sense? Thanks for catching that; mathematicians are wonderfully scrupulous about definitions! :) Please let me know if it's fixed up OK, Willow 16:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

That's better. But it seems now to contradict Waistline (clothing), which talks of lines between the top and the bottom of something, but I think that's a problem with that article rather than this one. See Talk:Waistline (clothing). -- Smjg 17:38, 11 December 2006 (UTC)