What's the difference between apparel and wardrobe?

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.

Wardrobe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
  • (v. t.) Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
  • (v. t.) A privy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (3) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
  • (4) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (5) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (6) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
  • (7) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (8) In these cases, the woman’s wardrobe must feature subdued tones.
  • (9) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
  • (10) Nobody goes out and buys a winter wardrobe these days,” he said.
  • (11) Furnished flats came with wartime utility furniture, cheap government-designed beds and wardrobes and chests of drawers that no one else wanted.
  • (12) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
  • (13) When I heard the gunfire, I slipped out of bed and hid in the wardrobe.
  • (14) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
  • (15) They asked what sort of work I could do but I can’t do anything physical because of my tremors … I can’t hold the wardrobe handles to get my clothes out in the morning.” That image might be one for George Osborne to pause on as he talks of cutting sickness benefits as an “incentive” for people such as Brehaut to get a job.
  • (16) Movies spanning the quality spectrum from Risky Business to Annie Hall to Roman Holiday all famously affected people’s actual wardrobes (respectively, Ray-Bans, men’s tailoring on women and full skirts and head scarves.)
  • (17) Monsters died in their beds, with their medals still hanging from the uniform in the wardrobe.
  • (18) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it Wole Soyinka “I get a feeling sometimes that some of these candidates were just locked in their wardrobes and they were told: ‘Just take selfies in there and don’t come out until you’ve finished the entire wardrobe.’ All kinds of postures.
  • (19) Her wide-shouldered, sequined wardrobe of the 80s has been tossed.
  • (20) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.