fashions

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of fashion.

   Hemlines, collars, and sleeves all shifted as the fashions of the decade changed.

   Magazines tracked the seasonal fashions long before the runway shows opened.

   Note

   The plural belongs only to the countable meanings: passing trends, or particular styles and manners of doing something. The clothing industry and the dated sense of genteel society stay uncountable, so one works in fashion, not in fashions. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb of making, and context separates them: the fashions changed, but she fashions a bowl.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of fashion.

   The sculptor fashions delicate figures from solid blocks of marble.

   Each spring the carpenter fashions a new bench for the village square.

   Note

   A verb of making by hand, usually with an object and often with the material introduced by from: she fashions figures from marble, he fashions a bench. Its core sense can suggest something improvised or roughly built rather than mass-produced. Fashions to, meaning adapts or fits something to a purpose, reads as dated today. The sense of forging or counterfeiting is obsolete.

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