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Example sentences for: ready-to-wear

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More than half a century later, the ascent of ready-to-wear dealt another allegedly fatal stroke to haute couture , as formal elegance began to look tacky, and ethnic and thrift-shop gear gained status.
From here and the burgeoning area between Les Halles and place des Victoires, haute couture houses and ready-to-wear (prêt-à-porter) boutiques have spread to the Left Bank around St-Germain-des-Prés.
The Front Street department stores in Hamilton have a full range of fashion items from Europe, and there are many independent boutiques with ready-to-wear collections.
The Civil War and the consequent need for uniforms stimulated the factory system, and the introduction of standard body-size measurements facilitated ready-to-wear clothing.
Lois Gould was writing about ready-to-wear fashion, which tends to be dealt with all the more hysterically (see Robert Altman's film Prêt-a-Porter ) for there being huge amounts of money at stake in the success or failure of its collections.