outergarment

plural outergarments

1. alternativeAlternative form of outer garment.

   Underwear protects the body from cold and provides some degree of modesty for the wearer. In centuries past, it also protected outergarments. […] Another interesting phenomenon is the way in which outergarments have become undergarments and vice versa.

   1996, Jennifer Ruby, Underwear (Costume in Context), London: B T Batsford Ltd, →ISBN, page 5

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   […] the prevailing minimum wages in the Men’s Raincoat Industry should not be amended to exclude from the Cotton Garment and Allied Industries determination oiled waterproof cotton outergarments and to include that commodity and all other types of rainwear in the Men’s Raincoat Industry. The proposed amendments are based on evidence received that the wages paid in the manufacture of oiled waterproof cotton outergarments and in other types of rainwear generally are similar to those paid in the raincoat industry.

   1940 December 20, Federal Register, volume 5, number 247, Washington, D.C., page 5209

   Beneath the chic outergarments the doll wears a factory-made shift of starched muslin threaded with cerise ribbon. […] Within the light-protected folds and creases of outergarments, lies the true color tone which can often be otherwise faded beyond recognition.

   1977 April, Magda Byfield, “For Whom Were You Made, Rowena-Rose?”, in Spinning Wheel: Antiques & Early Crafts, volume 33, number 3, American Antiques & Crafts Society, pages 26 and 28

   Outergarments for travel and night outings continued to be the hooded circular cape, and the heraldic court mantle was still worn on formal ceremonial occasions. […] The major elements in the silhouette were distortion and a padding of the body; the major decorative accent that created a sense of tension was the slashing—outergarments literally attacked with a knife so that lining fabric could be forced through the slits. […] Creates through distorted body lines, excess ornamentation, and linings tightly pushed through slits in the outergarments, an artificial, immobile, almost grotesque authority figure that is both fascinating and repellent.

   1983, Douglas A. Russell, Costume History and Style, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, pages 190, 200, and 202