bodycon
Turtleneck Bodycon Sweater Dress, Lace Tights, Gold Choker, and Ankle Boots;A bodycon dress.
Meaning
Adjective
Origin
- From Japanese (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young women in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- Narumi, Hiroshi "Street Style and Its Meaning in Postwar Japan" Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2010, pp. 415-438 (24):
- : The body-con was a young women's subculture, the main feature of which was wearing dresses closely fitted to their bodies (“Body-conscious dress”).
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