Models Glossary Terms

• Tabard
  
  a small loose-fitting sleeveless or short-sleeved coat or cape, as a tunic worn by a knight over his protective covering and inscribed with his arms; a herald's official cape or coat inscribed with his lord's arms; a woman's sleeveless external garment frequently with side slits
  
  
• Tabby
  
  it is a plain silk taffeta mainly with moiré finish; also, a plain-woven fabric.
  
  
• Tailcoat
  
  it is a coat with tails, particularly a man's full-dress coat with two long narrowing skirts at the back.
  
  
• Tallith
  
  a fringed shawl worn over the head or shoulders by Jewish men mainly throughout morning prayers
  
  
• Tank suit
  
  it is a one-piece bathing suit with usually wide shoulder straps.
  
  
• Tank top
  
  a sleeveless collarless shirt with typically wide shoulder straps and no front opening.
  
  
• Tap pants
  
  it is a loose-fitting woman's undergarment of a style like to shorts formerly worn for tap dancing
  
  
• Tape
  
  it is a narrow woven fabric.
  
  
• Tapestry
  
  a grave hand-woven reversible textile used for long curtains, curtains, and upholstery and characterized by difficult pictorial designs.
  
  
• Tarboosh
  
  it is a red hat related to the fez worn specially by Muslim men
  
  
• Tarlatan
  
  it is a sheer cotton fabric in open plain interlace typically heavily sized for rigidity.
  
  
• Tatting
  
  it is a fragile handmade lace formed typically by looping and knotting with a single cotton thread and a small shuttle.
  
  
• Tear Sheet
  
  The actual page torn from the magazine a model appeared in. Models put their tear sheets in their portfolios. Tearsheets are even better than photos, because it shows the kind of work the model has already done.
  
  
• Test Shoot
  
  When a model and photographer work together on a new idea or on their portfolios. No fees other than sharing film-and-developing expenses are involved. Model and Photographer Releases should be signed before the session.
  
  
• TFCD
  
  This is a variation on TFP, where "CD" refers to a CD-ROM of the photos from a photo shoot. See TFP for more info.
  
  
• TFP
  
  Time For Prints -- an agreement between the model and the photographer to do a photo shoot without paying each other monetarily. The idea is that the model "pays" the photographer with his/her time spent on the shoot, and the photographer "pays" the model with prints. Can also be used to refer to similar arrangements with other non-monetary compensation; for example, this general term can be used in place of the more-specific TFCD.