What's the difference between apparel and attire?

Apparel


Definition:

  • (n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
  • (n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
  • (n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
  • (v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
  • (v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire.
  • (v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a statement the club said: "We currently are in discussions with multiple parties regarding our global retail, apparel and product licensing business starting in the 2015-16 season.
  • (2) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
  • (3) "I feel good about the park's resumption, but I also have a heavy heart," said Sung Hyun-sang, president of apparel manufacturer Mansun Corporation, which has lost about 7bn won because of the shutdown.
  • (4) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .
  • (5) Appropriate working conditions can be chosen with regard to apparel, environmental temperature, and work load.
  • (6) Normative data concerning popular styles of color-coordinated clothing were collected through observations of women's apparel in a local community.
  • (7) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
  • (8) These compounds include two drugs (benzocaine and neomycin), two cosmetic ingredients (p-phenylenediamine and balsam of Peru), four preservatives (formaldehyde, ethylenediamine, parabens and mercurials) and three ingredients of wearing apparel (nickel, chromium and thiram).
  • (9) Safety first Visibility There is almost no item of running apparel that isn’t available in reflective form, from shoelaces to flashing LEDs.
  • (10) 70 interested elderly (65 yr. and over) men and women participated in an investigation of older consumers' apparel-shopping behavior and satisfactions and dissatisfactions with available clothing and facilities.
  • (11) Martin Buttle, head of apparel and textiles at the Ethical Trading Initiative, said: “Paying an extra couple of pounds on a school uniform is not normally a massive cost to a UK consumer, but the difference can be huge to a Bangladeshi or Chinese garment worker.
  • (12) Among the other projects listed: An investment group that includes Rockefeller & Co and European-based institutional investors PGGM, Aberdeen Asset Management, Hermes, MN and Nordea will work with around 50 major food, beverage and apparel companies to improve their resilience to strains in the world’s fresh water supply.
  • (13) I was no longer permitted indoors because I had changed back into my own clothes, and the scents emanating from my regular world apparel had already caused Deb’s ears to swell, making it hard for her to hear.
  • (14) Abercombie & Fitch slumped 8.3% to $22 in premarket after the teen apparel retailer said its quarterly profit fell by a third.
  • (15) On Instagram, #feelthebern and #Bernie2016 vie for dominance with the #babesforbernie hashtag – which is mostly self-applied by mostly young women who are mostly holding or wearing some sort of Sanders apparel.
  • (16) People aren’t spending.” This week, Credit Suisse downgraded the retail sector, saying the outlook had become bleaker than it had anticipated in large part because of events in Washington and through discussion of “whether we think the risks of the border adjustment provision in the House corporate tax reform proposal are fully reflected in apparel and retailing stocks”.
  • (17) For this is the outdoor apparel that tells the neighbours: "I've been locked in crucial executive meetings all week, but now I'm letting my hair down outside, albeit in a controlled and responsible way."
  • (18) Three forced-choice situations with toys and three forced-choice situations with dress-up apparel were presented that paired same-sex and cross-sex stimuli, same-sex and neutral stimuli, and cross-sex and neutral stimuli.
  • (19) Five hundred of the top global companies from four key sectors – agriculture, ICT, apparel, and extractives – will be researched and ranked .
  • (20) "All American Apparel's employees are subject to the same confidential arbitration agreement signed by [Morales] in order to protect the privacy interests of employees and former employees, and to prevent predatory plaintiffs and their attorneys from attempting to use the media to extort the company.

Attire


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
  • (n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
  • (n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
  • (n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control are currently stressing the need for protective clinical attire and barrier techniques to reduce cross-contamination and the spread of diseases.
  • (2) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
  • (3) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
  • (4) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
  • (5) If the vendors are similarly attired then this doesn't help either," says Tim Dansie at Jackson-Stops & Staff.
  • (6) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
  • (7) Many program directors indicated they are considering changes in clinical attire requirements in the future because of concern for infection control.
  • (8) Latex gloves have become a standard part of OR attire, and even though they serve as the primary form of hand protection in the OR, gloves also may serve as one of the key causes of contact or allergic dermatitis in OR personnel.
  • (9) Thus attired, she demanded a second audition as the fat nurse – and got the part, as Nurse Hilda Price.
  • (10) To study patient preferences on physician attire and etiquette, we interviewed 200 patients on the general medical services of teaching hospitals in Boston and San Francisco.
  • (11) Setback of the week Dubai: Greek model Vicky Xipolitakis – flying to Dubai in an attempt to reach Diego Maradona's 53rd birthday party, but stopped and fined at the airport for " inappropriate attire ".
  • (12) Although children had no strong positive preferences, they may feel negatively about informal attire.
  • (13) In the last two years, a man dressed as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a two-year-old, a person attired in Super Mario's overalls was accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleashing an antisemitic tirade.
  • (14) I have said before that I find it a fairly confronting form of attire.
  • (15) In person, he looks like central casting's idea of a technology guru: vast bulk, informal attire, no socks, beard and dreadlocks.
  • (16) In the middle of the hotel bar, George Lamb sits tall and flamboyantly attired: grey suit, tanned skin, crisp shirt, plumey hair.
  • (17) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
  • (18) The Observer is brilliantly, admirably non-restrictive about employee attire, and I'm lucky to be relatively free to dress myself of a morning.
  • (19) In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Methodists and Atlantic storms, he might appear at an ordination attired in mitre, ceremonial gloves and gremial (a silk apron-like covering for the lap of bishops).
  • (20) Zuckerberg's hipster attire is an eloquent statement of his disregard for those on whom his business's continued expansion relies.