The word "garb" is a legitimate term and can be used in written English.
It is most often used to refer to clothing or attire. For example: "She was wearing a luxurious garb of bright satin and lace."
Mitchell's thoughtful and informed approach has reassured spin doctors that their charges won't suddenly be ambushed by a man wearing garish hip-hop garb.
Sherlock fans were confounded by the mystery of a recent promotional image showing Holmes and Watson dressed in Victorian garb – a throwback to Arthur Conan Doyle's original setting for the detective, rather than the usual contemporary setting of the TV show.
Foreseeing the humiliation of not looking his best after the massacre, these showed him with makeup and in powerful poses – wearing military garb festooned with medals, or aiming a rifle in a tight sports suit with the words "Marxist Hunter" emblazoned on the sleeve.
Senussi, haggard and emaciated in blue prison garb, appeared with other defendants in a steel cage and complained that Libya had broken a promise to the Hague to find him a lawyer.
Promising to be a prolonged spectacle, it was launched with a parade of scores of prominent reformists in prison garb.
Many of the participants come dressed in different versions of Red Indian garb, with feathers, leather and bells, partly in the hope of winning one of the cash prizes at the dance, which forms the second part of the event.But current pow-wows might be unrecognisable to their originatorsThis mix is not everybody's cup of tea.
King Muhammad VI, sporting the traditional garb of Moroccan sultans, passed slowly through the crowd astride a purebred Arab stallion, as servants sheltered him from the scorching sun with a giant parasol.This was the ceremony of the baya, an annual pledge of allegiance to the monarch that draws on centuries of tradition as well as Muslim custom.
Mr Hwang arrived in full military garb and on Mr Kim's personal plane.
Armed with a Browning revolver, an unemployed ex-soldier in black military garb fired a single slug into his back and fled.
WHEN the editors of the German tabloid Bild met Mario Draghi recently they gave him a Pic kelhaube a spiked helmet to remind the Italian that they had last year depicted him in Prussian garb as the most Germanic of candidates to run the European Central Bank.
The most populous and politically pivotal Arab state stands on the brink of prolonged civil strife, or a descent into a form of veiled dictatorship not unlike the one so recently overthrown, only this time in drab Islamist garb.
