Sentence examples for raincoat maker from inspiring English sources
Rose Marie Bravo, Burberry's chief executive and the architect of its metamorphosis from a dowdy raincoat maker to a fashion house, said that she saw no signs of a slowdown.
The Burberry Group hired Angela Ahrendts, left, of Liz Claiborne as chief executive to succeed Rose Marie Bravo, who transformed the company into a worldwide luxury fashion brand from a maker of raincoats and umbrellas.
The 155-year-old maker of raincoats and handbags reported a 39% increase in underlying pre-tax profits to £298m in the year to the end of March, after a 27% increase in revenues to £1.5bn.
It would be some harassed P-8 probably, bedevilled by the raincoat &-galoshes interests, wined & dined by makers of winter-and-summer underwear, slacks & sunburn lotion, threatened by resort-owners and farmers, tempted by the makers of sailboats, etc. Suppose the election of a President were engineered by a pressure group from California and came into office committed to 52 sunnyweeks?
Bailey's creation is set to display 100 gold and silver umbrellas in a variety of sizes (see the illustration above), making the most of the bad weather London is much known for, and well, making reference to the brand's iconic raincoats, too - in fact Burberry was founded in 1856 as a trench coat maker.
Jerry still wore his raincoat.
There would be cigarettes in my raincoat.
