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saddle stitch – Small running stitches visible on the outside of handbags and accessories.
safari style – Safari-style garments adapted from bush jackets worn by hunters on African safaris, including such features as bellows pockets, belting and epaulettes.
sarong skirt – Long cloth that is wrapped around the entire body.
sateen – Lustrous cotton or rayon; this fabric has a smooth hand with a soft sheen.
satin – A smooth fabric woven with a glossy face and a dull back.
scalloping – Edges cut, knit or crocheted in a tight wave pattern.
scoop/round neck – A low, U-shaped or round neckline.
seersucker – Term derived from the Persian "shiroshakar," a kind of cloth, literally "milk and sugar". The woven crinkle is produced by alternating slack and tight yarns in the warp.
sequins – Small, shiny discs sewn onto fabrics as decoration.
shantung – A heavy fabric with a rough, slubbed surface, usually made of silk or some other soft material (often rayon or cotton).
shawl collar – A one-piece collar that is turned down to form an elegant, continuous line around the back of the neck to the front of a garment.
sheaths – Usually have straight or close-fitting skirts, accompanied by a form-fitting bodice. The skirt is often ankle length and sometimes has a slit in either the front, side or back to make walking easier.
shelf bra – A bra that is built right into the garment.
shift – A straight-lined basic dress of the 1960s, hanging away from the body.
shirred waist – A decorative gathering (as of cloth) made by drawing up the material along two or more parallel lines of stitching.
shirring – Gathering of material, usually used for visual figure enhancement.
shirt dress – A dress cut similar to a man's shirt with buttons down the front.
shrug – A woman's small, waist-length or shorter jacket.
silk – An extremely soft, natural fabric made from the secretions of silkworms.
skant – Pants that have a sweater-like attachment around the waist.
skort – Shorts that have a skirt-like front covering.
slub – An uneven section in a yarn, which gives fabrics a rough texture.
Solvair™ – A dry-cleaning system using glycol ether to clean and carbon dioxide to dry the garments. Often promoted as CO2 cleaning, the use of CO2 in the system is limited to the recovery cycle.
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