The word "outerwear" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to clothing that is meant to be worn outdoors and to protect against the elements, such as jackets, coats, and parkas. Example Sentence: I need to buy a new coat, but I'm not sure which type of outerwear I should get.
But it's also because there is something infantalising about wearing engulfing primary colours as outerwear.
It was co-written by Jon Ronson, inspired by his time in Sievey's band in the late 80s, but this Frank is American and present-day, explains director Lenny Abrahamson from beneath a woolly cap and several layers of outerwear.
One is that while the price of what the statisticians call "outerwear" has barely risen for men and has fallen for women, the price of "other clothing"—underwear, socks and so forth has almost matched the RPI.
Lingerie has so far been more resilient than outerwear during the economic slowdown that has taken a heavy toll on consumption in France since 2007.
Italy became a major producer of knitted outerwear and of footwear; Israel exported knitted outerwear and all types of women's wear, especially pantyhose; Spain produced leather goods, knitwear, and high-fashion clothes; and Sweden and West Germany concentrated on sport and spectator wear.
Such use of underwear as outerwear has been recurrent in fashion history and has continued into modern times, as can be seen by the popularity of the bustier among young women in the 1980s and the slip dress among young women of the early 21st century.
When Ahrendts became CEO at Burberry in 2006, the somewhat-stodgy 150-year-old outerwear company was seeking to evolve into a modern international label with a wide range of clothing lines.
Most outerwear is made from woven and knitted fabrics with some use of hides, skins, furs, plastics, rubber, foams, and metallics.
Llama fibre is used, alone or in blends, for knitwear and for woven fabrics made into outerwear.
Clothing and footwear industry, also called apparel and allied industries, garment industries, or soft-goods industries, factories and mills producing outerwear, underwear, headwear, footwear, belts, purses, luggage, gloves, scarfs, ties, and household soft goods such as drapes, linens, and slipcovers.
Corsets and corset-style tops without structural supports retained an amount of popularity as outerwear, especially in alternative fashion, and were sometimes featured in the works of respected fashion designers.
