Sentence examples for replace garments from inspiring English sources
Why do people replace garments before they are worn out?
With rents nearly doubling in five years to $25 a square foot on Eighth Avenue and $14 a square foot on the side streets, battle lines have been drawn against the unions and apparel firms who want the city to enforce a 1987 zoning resolution that broadly requires landlords to replace a closed garment factory with another garment firm.
The costume shop workers repair and alter, but they also replace — the original garments date back 24 years to the production's premiere.
The problem is then compounded by not being able to freely do things other people take for granted such as being able to launder garments and replace damaged clothes and sheets.
It was exceedingly amusing to see here a ragged fellow regaling himself with a box of pickled oysters or potted lobster; there another cutting into a cheese of enormous size, or emptying a bottle of champagne; while hundreds were engaged in opening the packages of boots and shoes and other clothing, and fitting themselves with articles of apparel to replace their own tattered garments".
1970s: With more women in work, easy-to-wash stretch cotton and colourful patterns replace white non-stretch garments.
Today, Rio-style sequined string bikinis replace the grass-root garments of yesteryears.
She and her partner in RDS, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, were there to make the case for "ungendered mono-garment to replace all clothes in perpetuity".
Once there, their familiar clothes were replaced with strange garments, and they were left alone in barred cots.
But meanwhile, the country's garment factories are likely to replace the multinationals' business with even cheaper and less image-conscious retailers image-conscious retailers markets.
RAINN operates a 24/7 hotline for survivors of sexual assault (donate here), and The Grateful Garment Project provides survivors clothing to replace things they had to give up for DNA tests, among other initiatives (donate here).
