armywear

DETECTIVES are probing a raid on a shop in High Street, Cleethorpes, which sells surplus armywear.

1983 August 25, “Shop cash box stolen”, in Grimsby Evening Telegraph, page nine

We buy/sell second-hand furniture/baby equipment, bric-a-brac, curios, models, armywear and bits and pieces.

1997 January 31, The Staines Informer, 23rd year, number 5, page 78

Invented by Basque peasants, this brimless wool felt cap has been adopted by many a chic figure, becoming ridiculously rich with references: armywear; stereotypical old Frenchmen; 1920s film directors; 1950s schoolgirls; beatniks, renegades.

2007, Kira Jolliffe, Bay Garnett, The Cheap Date Guide to Style, Universe Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 53

They’d gone from baggy armywear for their first album to sassy for the second, then mumsy chic for the recent one: lots of long coats.

2019, Malcolm McLean, Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie, RedDoor, →ISBN, page 43