apparel
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European Union apparel imports fell during the first five months of the year, with those from Bangladesh recording the sharpest decline among major suppliers, Eurostat data shows.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
About 400 of the roughly 4,000 apparel factories in the country have shut over the past two years, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The apparel company was founded by Yael Aflalo, a California native, in 2009.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The move to set up a kind of mini vintage store featuring a mishmash of garments is a stark contrast from the Swedish apparel giant’s typical offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
On the Red Lake Ojibwe rez, almost everyone at the high school dresses in Nike or Reebok sports apparel.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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It is also adding to fears among labour rights campaigners that Covid-19 is providing cover for an industry-wide suppression of workers’ voices across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
India unit and Mandhana Industries Ltd., an Indian maker of apparels with 5,000 employees in Mumbai and Bangalore, will give workers the option of taking the afternoon off.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 30, 2011
He hurried us off to the robing-rooms, and made us put on monastic and priestly garments over our several apparels.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
There is continual mention in the records of those times of offerings of embroideries and other Church apparels.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
In contrast to the usual portrayals, Barbara Flynn’s matronly Mary is as confident and imperious as her cousin, if not nearly as well appareled.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Casler, who was nothing if not dramatic, was appareled in a full broadcloth dress-suit and silk hat and sat upon the boot of a large family carriage.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher
The Earl of that island was appareled all in white, cloak, jerkin, hose, shoes and cap, so that he seemed a Lord of the Gipsies.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
All of them were appareled in deers' skins tanned and dyed black, to wit, coats, hose, and shoes.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
May Nuttall was a fine lady, finely appareled.
From The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace
As a child, his world had been "apparelled in celestial light," but no longer.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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After a magnificent banquet in the common council chamber, above the assize court, a princely masque of gods and goddesses, richly apparelled, was presented before her majesty.
From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by S. S. Madders
There were ladies and damoselles, freshly apparelled, ready to have danced if they might have leave.
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous
Wordsworth idealized newborns, who he said entered life “trailing clouds of glory” and appareling all they saw in “celestial light.”
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2013
Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
For as Apollo each eve doth devise A new appareling for western skies; So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
The day came at last, and at ten Mrs. Dillingham entered the grand drawing-room in her queenly appareling.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
Jeannie's maid must have been a first-rate hand at throwing, if by that simple process she produced in a quarter of an hour that exquisite and finished piece of apparelling which appeared at half-past eight.
From Daisy's Aunt by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Elsie went out to buy a gift for Jacqueline, a bit of fine apparelling which she had coveted from the moment she knew Jacqueline should be a bride.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
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