Sentence examples for french garment from inspiring English sources

Stuart & Wright sells men's and women's apparel out of a shop whose storefront bears a neon Eiffel Tower and a sign reading "French Garment Cleaners" (85 Lafayette Avenue).

That led to requests for copies from friends and then orders from local boutiques like Steven Alan, Bird and French Garment Cleaners Co.

Joan Wallach Scott (1988), for example, looks at the way a dispute in the French garment trades in the 1840s constructs women in terms of unskilled work and the home.

This set of nine French ecclesiastical garments is richly embroidered in gold.

A Bangladesh-based executive for a French-based garment buyer said he feared a deep slump in business in the coming days.

Jupon is French for a garment used to create volume under a dress or skirt, and Mr. Baron had in mind the rippling costumes of can-can dancers.

Sports science company Cityzen Sciences is developing a smart "compressive" garment with French elite rugby team Stade Toulousain, which includes GPS, heart rate, speed and other monitoring hardware.

It strikes me now that Chanel is French and those lovely garments are in the red, white and blue of the tricoleur.

With its armature of wicker -- inspired by traditional French bakery baskets -- each "garment" is an elaborate composition in breads.

On Monday last week, at her eighteenth-floor atelier on West Thirty-seventh Street, in the garment district, the French fashion designer Sophie Theallet showed me her fall collection.

Over the past decade such exhibitions as the Met's "Dangerous Liaisons" (2004), an installation of extravagant 18th-century garments in the French period rooms, raised the status as well as the profile of clothing in museum collections.