Sentence examples for surplus clothes from inspiring English sources

They were issued surplus clothes from World War I, had no running water, and often contracted illnesses like diarrhea.

For example, hippies, whom the punks disdained, customized their Army-Navy surplus clothes and also used T-shirts for political statements.

"I was going to wear Army surplus clothes and eat beans and be a kind of middle-class Thoreau," he once said.

He describes his fantasy about a self-conscious girl on a French train; his participation in a peace march He deplores the army's sale of surplus goods, describing young men who make up a clown army, wearing surplus clothes in conjunction with their own.

He produced spoof portraits ("Spotty Muldoon" wearing a brown paper bag over his head) and fashion photographs such as The Loony Look (1967), featuring Willie Rushton, Barry Fantoni and Diana Clarke satirising fashions of the day by posing in army surplus clothes.

"We need to remind the public that they can actually convert their surplus clothes into cows for people in Zambia, into crops for people in Zimbabwe, into healthcare for people in Cambodia very easily.

In Schwarzau the family turned surplus cloth into clothes.

In the past, Wei Ziqi had worn Army-surplus clothes, like most village men, but he now dressed differently whenever he travelled to the nearby city of Huairou to get supplies.

Dave's is a great outlet for jeans, Army surplus, and work clothes, and it's D.'s favorite store, because he can shop there in less than seven minutes (Red Wing boots, $125-$125-$279bed belt, $3).

Five old school friends, for example – all with experience in the US, where philanthropy is as efficiently run as any business – formed Desmos, which a bare six months later supplies some 35 welfare organisations including soup kitchens, homeless shelters and orphanages with surplus food and essentials including clothes, shoes and books from two dozen different companies in and around Athens.

I wouldn't blame any woman for being suspicious of a drifter handyman white supremacist serial killer who buys his clothes at Army Surplus and has sideburns, but that ol' Winchester charm always wins out in the end, and I'm looking forward to learning more of her secrets and why she felt like she was going nowhere when she first met Sam.