Models Glossary Terms

• Lab dip
  
  It is a type a hard color material colored to match a given color standard.
  
  
• Lace
  
  It is type of an openwork generally figured cloth made of thread or yarn and used for trimmings, domestic coverings, and entire garments.
  
  
• Lacha
  
  It is type of a lengthy skirt and tunic combination along with a chunni creates up a whole set. It is a traditional garment from India.
  
  
• Lambrequin
  
  a scarf used to wrap a knight's helmet
  
  
• Lame
  
  This is a brocaded clothing material made from any of various threads united with glittering filling threads often of gold or silver.
  
  
• Lasting
  
  Is is a strong cotton or worsted cloth used specially in shoes and luggage.
  
  
• Latchet
  
  It is a thin leather strap, thong, or lace that tie up a shoe or sandal on the foot.
  
  
• Lavalava
  
  It is a rectangular material of cotton print worn like a kilt or skirt in Polynesia and particularly in Samoa.
  
  
• Lederhosen
  
  It is a type of leather shorts regularly with suspenders worn particularly in Bavaria.
  
  
• Leg warmer
  
  It is generally a weaved covering for the leg.
  
  
• Legging
  
  It is a covering, as of leather or with other type of cloth, for the leg, generally used in plural; also, tights.
  
  
• Leghorn
  
  It is a hat prepared with leghorn straw, namely a fine plaited straw made from an Italian wheat.
  
  
• Lei
  
  It is a headdress or necklace generally made up of flowers or leaves.
  
  
• Lengha
  
  a lengthy full skirt.
  
  
• Lengha/choli
  
  a long skirt and and blouse grouping along with a chunni makes up a complete set.
  
  
• Leno
  
  a fabric made with leno interlace, namely an open weave in which pairs of distort yarns cross one another and thus lock the filling yarn in position.
  
  
• Leotard
  
  It is a close-fitting one-piece garment worn out mainly by dancers, acrobats, and aerialists; also tights.
  
  
• Lingerie
  
  A photograph in which the model is wearing lingerie, which -- at its most common meaning can indicate any undergarment not normally visible in public. Regularly this means sexier wear than "grandma underwear!"