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While considering the terminology connected with contemporary and past fashions, there is a tendency to highlight a specific feature of the clothing lexis which is its evanescence and instability. It turns out that not only the clothing terminology is unstable in the Polish language. Also the phrasemes with components relating to historical names of garments or the ones containing the names of old clothes after a semantic modification are characterized by the same phenomenon of instability. My article deals with the vicissitudes of these types of combinations in the Polish language.