Meanings
- uncountableClothing to be worn in spring.
Winter coats put to rest, into springwear, which I like best.
1989, Jenny Birtell, “Onward Spring!”, in Morning Star, volume 6, Eldridge, Iowa: North Scott High School, page 25 more examples
By the end of 1893, the production of heavy woolens had fallen off about 60 percent and springwear orders were about 30 percent of normal.
1970, Charles Hoffmann, The Depression of the Nineties: An Economic History (Contributions in Economics and Economic History; number 2), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 66Walking down the runway is Janice Kirbach modelling the latest in springwear.
1979, Gyrfalcon, volume 29, Quincy, Ill.: Quincy College, page 29[…] spokesmen for the garment district claimed that because the strike hit them in the middle of the springwear season, fearful buyers had switched to out-of-state suppliers.
1980, Charles R[ichard] Morris, The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment, 1960–1975, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 86Pam Edwards sports the latest in springwear for the Fashion Show.
1988, Phase, page 25Vibrant springwear on display at Zinoviev Fashion Mart off Mayakovsky Square.
1988, Jack Womack, Terraplane, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 27
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