List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 157

SYNONYMS: fashion, style, mode, vogue.
These nouns refer to a prevailing or preferred manner of dress, adornment, behavior, or way of life at a given time.

Fashion, the broadest term, usually refers to what accords with conventions adopted by polite society or set by those in the forefront of the artistic or intellectual sphere: wears clothes in the height of fashion; a time when pop art was very much in fashion.
Style is sometimes used interchangeably with fashion (a gown that is out of style), but style, like mode, often stresses adherence to standards of elegance: The couple travels in style. Miniskirts were the mode in the sixties.
Vogue is applied to fashion that prevails widely (the voluptuous figure in vogue at the time of Rubens); the term often suggests enthusiastic but short-lived acceptance (a game that enjoyed a vogue in its day).