bodycon

See also: body-con and body con

English

Woman wearing a bodycon dress

Alternative forms

• body-con, body con

Etymology

From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.

Adjective

bodycon (comparative more bodycon, superlative most bodycon)

1. (fashion, of women's clothing) Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.
   • 2016 November 28, Hadley Freeman, “Melania Trump wants to be a ‘traditional’ first lady like Betty Ford. Good luck with that”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 2016-11-29:

     She has, of late, tried to tone down her usual fembot style – all bodycon dresses and pointed shoulders – with more interesting looks: a jumpsuit here, a pussybow there, a fluted sleeve there.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bodycon.