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DRESS SHOE [4 records]

Record 1 2022-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Footwear (Clothing)
  • Military Dress
DEF

A shoe worn by members of the military as part of service dress.

OBS

service dress shoe; service shoe : designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • service dress shoes
  • service shoes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chaussures (Vêtements)
  • Tenue militaire
OBS

soulier de tenue de service; soulier réglementaire : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • souliers de tenue de service
  • souliers réglementaires

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Footwear (Clothing)
DEF

Any type of shoe [usually] worn with dressy or formal clothes.

OBS

Examples of dress shoes are oxfords and pumps.

OBS

dress shoe : designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • dress shoes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chaussures (Vêtements)
OBS

chaussure habillée; soulier habillé : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • chaussures habillées
  • souliers habillés

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Decorative Arts
DEF

An ornament resembling a rose usually made of gathered or pleated material and worn as a badge of office, as evidence of having one or several decorations(as the Medal of Honor), or as trimming(as on hat, shoe, or dress).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts décoratifs divers
DEF

Nœud rigide en ruban, en forme de petite rose, montée sur un bouton, porté à la boutonnière par les officiers et dignitaires de certains ordres de chevalerie ou du mérite.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing Notions
  • Clothing (General)
DEF

A device used to fasten and unfasten two adjoining edges of material, as on the packet of a dress, the fly of a pair of trousers, etc.: it consists of two rows of interlocking tabs which are joined or separated by sliding a part up or down.

CONT

The zip fastener was invented in Chicano in 1893 by Whitcomb Judson and in it early stage was more a hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Zip-fasteners did not come into general until the 1930s, when the zipper beat the button fly in the 1937, following the discovery that zippers made it easier for children to dress themselves. During that period they had campaigns praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young. The first commercial production of zip-fasteners was when Whitcomb Judson started together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device.

OBS

The zippers date back to the 1890s when this new invention was called a slide fastener. The name zipper wasn’t coined until the 1920s when this closure became more widely used in everyday sportswear.

OBS

Such was the fate of trade-marks such as "Zipper," "Escalator," "Cellophane," and "Dry Ice." Who remembers that the correct terms are "slide fastener" and "moving staircase"? This is why some companies are very vigilant about policing their marks, and preventing improper use of their trade-marks in any kind of communication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles et accessoires de couture
  • Vêtements (Généralités)
DEF

Fermeture [...] constituée de deux chaînes souples, à dents, qui engrènent au moyen d'un curseur.

OBS

fermeture éclair : [À l'origine, fermeture Éclair,] marque déposée d'une fermeture à glissière.

OBS

pluriel : Des fermetures éclair, des fermetures à glissière.

PHR

Blouson à fermeture éclair.

Spanish

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