There are, of course, acceptable exceptions – garment factories have been using sandblasters to selectively strip dye from denim to create a unique colour rather than a worn-down look (although sandblasting is a fairly dangerous technique).
In the era of the naked selfie, the thigh-high boot is just another acceptable flesh-baring garment.
But generally speaking, fur is no longer the acceptable or coveted garment it once was (I would like to see the poncho, the Ugg boot and the velour tracksuit added to that list, but you can't have it all).
We are a country that celebrates the Native American heritage in November, but it is still culturally acceptable to appropriate native garments, and have sports teams adopt racist Native American caricatures as mascots.
"If they (Uniqlo) want to go with their own safety standards, I would say it will not be acceptable because for one garment industry, we cannot have multiple policies," adds Ms Akter.
We women will not be so easily cowed, nor forced into garments that are only acceptable in – in this order – childhood, the gym and on holiday.
Exposed waistbands often reveal oversize logos and patterns that would not otherwise be acceptable in any other kind of garment — which is to say nothing of the entire genre of action-hero-inspired underwear.
Some labor rights groups estimated that it would cost as much as $3 billion to bring Bangladesh's garment factories up to an acceptable safety standard.
No Upper Egyptian woman would wear such garments in public, but it's acceptable at home.
Women often have little choice but to work in the garment factories: Garment industry work is one of the few acceptable jobs for women in the socially conservative country.
Things like finished seams and linings made innerwear acceptable as outerwear and foreshadowed the mainstream acceptance, two decades later, of women wearing lingerielike garments in their daily wardrobes.
