adultwear

alternative adultswear

1. uncountableClothing for adults.

   Estella stocks baby clothes from designers who also do adultwear – from Three Dots, Antik Batik, and Judith Lacroix, among others.

   2003, Shopping in New York, Insight Guides, →ISBN, page 78

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   It is questioned if related separates sales in the boyswear department can show the increase in sales that has been exhibited by adultwear.

   1944, Textile Technology Digest

   “However, since it’s hard to differentiate clothing for this group from other adultwear, no strict standards for flame retardant clothing for older adults have been set yet,” the specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, The Texas A&M University System, said.

   1975 September 13, “Flame Retardant Clothing for Elderly”, in The Cotton Gin and Oil Mill Press, volume 76, number 19, page 21

   On the ground floor, […] the Royal Irish Silver section (see below); the Irish Lace section (all types of Carrickmacross); the Irish Handknits section (adultwear, $21 up; children’s wear, $9.25 up); the Man’s Shop, which has everything for HIM.

   1971, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, page 792

   With the major growth today in adultwear, it was extremely important to maintain the quota levels on both traditional and non-traditional apparel so that the total quota in any category could not be used exclusively for adultwear.

   1978, The MFA and the American Apparel Industry, page 10

   The UK childrenswear market certainly needs a fillip - consumer spending on childrenswear grew by just 1.5% in 1997 to reach £3.27bn. in contrast, the adultwear market grew by 7.1% (its highest level since 1988).

   1999, International Textiles, page 36