A dress is a one-piece garment consisting of a bodice and a skirt extending downward from the waist, worn primarily by women and girls as a single unit of lower-and-upper-body clothing. Parameters: (1) a continuous garment from shoulders or bust to below the knee, (2) no separate top component — the bodice and skirt are unified in one piece, (3) culturally coded feminine in most contemporary Western contexts. Persistence mechanism: fashion industry standards, retail categorization, and cultural dress codes that maintain the dress as a distinct garment category separate from separates. [formal: vestimentum unum | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
Accepted ontology entry
dress
A dress is a one-piece garment consisting of a bodice and a skirt extending downward from the waist, worn primarily by women and girls as a single unit of lower-and-upper-body clothing. Parameters: (1) a continuous garment from shoulders o…
Definition
Why it is in scope
a type of clothing
Names and aliases
- dressen · CANONICAL
Relations from this entry
- cmrzdsg9h0052fb7l86pkm77bINSTANCE_OF →
dress IS a specific kind of garment. 'a Y' test passes: one would call a dress 'a garment'. Nearest kind.
- cmro5adi7040dd1nlkaptq0p7SERVES →
A dress is designed and maintained FOR THE SAKE of providing clothing/covering. The servant (dress) points at the master (clothing as its purpose).
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- Jul 18, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC
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