The "LBD."

Clothing (The Little Black Dress)

• Wool crepe is defined as a lightweight wool with a crinkled or puckered surface.
  
• A "bias cut" refers to fabric cut that's diagonally, used to create flowing silhouettes for dresses and other fluid garments.
  
• Belt length should extend one to two inches past the first loop.

An LBD Fashion Quote:

"This is where (Audrey) Hepburn and Jackie Onassis, the only other woman in the history of style to make a boring black shift dress look desirable, succeed. They wore one style for the whole of their lives. They never made the mistake of following cyclical trends, but remained loyal to the clothes that suited them best. That is why they became bigger than fashion. Like it or not, we are stuck with Hepburn's implacable style - items of such simplicity that they still seem modern today. Long may the LBD reign."
- Rebecca Lowthorpe, The Independent - London, 13 January 2002

Resources

Book: The Skinny: How to Fit into Your Little Black Dress Forever by Melissa Clark and Robin Aronson