The First Lemurian Clothing Taxonomy (LCT-01) is a system of garment and fabric classification developed by Lemuria starting in September 2025. It is based on methods first developed for and used in biological taxonomy, such as binomial nomenclature, a tree-like structure, and nomenclatural ranks. In layman's terms: "Latin names, but for dresses!". An example of such a binomial name is Gunnelaurentia johnsonia for a make of a vintage Gunne Sax pattern by Lauren Johnson.
Lemuria began working on the LCT-01 in September 2025, during an abundance of free time, and has worked on it since.
The LCT-01 is not intended to replace the current system; but rather coexist. Even though scientists have named it Felis catus, the word "cat" won’t be going away anytime soon. Think of the product name as the common name, and the LCT-01 name as well… the scientific name.
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Publications
Lemuria's (Informal) Journal of Clothing TaxonomyThe oldest and first journal dedicated to the LCT-01. Single author non-peer-reviewed gray literature; and full open-access too. Uses a fair bit of jargon, a glossary is in the works.
Contact
The author may be contacted at lemuria@lemuria.ph. Please include "LCT-01" in your subject line. Sewists with Instagram accounts need not be intimidated by email as the author also operates an Instagram account at @lemuriaph for sewing research, which has its DMs open.
Fellow taxonomic brethren
The LCT-01 is not the first system to apply biological taxonomy to non-biological subject matter. The first such organization is the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group , which has amassed a formidable collection of occlupanids, the underappreciated bits of plastic that keep bread bags closed. The HORG itself has listed more of all our fellow taxonomic brethren, and even ourselves, on their Research in Synthetic Taxonomy page.