apparel
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Dick’s Sporting Goods DKS -2.13%decrease; down pointing triangle lowered its operating income outlook, citing increasingly tough conditions in the athletic footwear and apparel markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The launch of the new line comes as Walmart’s clothing and accessories sales have grown for seven consecutive quarters, and it is taking market share from department stores and specialty apparel retailers, executives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Shein said its product selection comprises of more than 2 million apparel styles, with customers able to select from about 4,700 new styles on a daily basis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company’s U.S. apparel business fell short of quarterly expectations, signaling a pullback among shoppers even as the discount retailer raised its full-year earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cluny’s personal armorer put the final touches to his Chief’s war apparel.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
Fear ye God and take heed lest forms and apparels debar you from recognizing Him.
From Selections From the Writings of the Báb by Báb
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
The king’s three officers enter, richly appareled, their figures showing in strong relief against the red sky.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
The girl in the tonneau, barricaded with a huge trunk and several bags, besides a huge leather hat-box perched beside the chauffeur, was very gaily appareled as well.
From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
Then she directed that the others be made ready; richly and nobly she appareled them with great love.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
At the front stood the three whom I had supposed to be priests at the amphitheatre, and with them was a man very aged and white haired, but erect and gorgeously appareled.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
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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But on the day following the joust, the esquires and the gentlefolk, but not the waiting-men, apparelled them, whatsoe'er it cost, in satin, broidered with silver.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Postscript: Kindly come apparelled in ye meeting-house cloathes and behave as a young maide should so do.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey
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
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
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
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
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
"It is time that I were attending to my own apparelling, which, in looking at thee, I quite forgot," said the widow, rising, and leaving the apartment.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
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