adultwear

• adultswear

From adult +‎ -wear.

adultwear (uncountable)

1. Clothing for adults.
   • 1944, Textile Technology Digest:

     It is questioned if related separates sales in the boyswear department can show the increase in sales that has been exhibited by adultwear.

   • 1975 September 13, “Flame Retardant Clothing for Elderly”, in The Cotton Gin and Oil Mill Press, volume 76, number 19, page 21:

     “However, since it’s hard to differentiate clothing for this group from other adultwear, no strict standards for flame retardant clothing for older adults have been set yet,” the specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, The Texas A&M University System, said.

   • 1971, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, page 792:

     On the ground floor, […] the Royal Irish Silver section (see below); the Irish Lace section (all types of Carrickmacross); the Irish Handknits section (adultwear, $21 up; children’s wear, $9.25 up); the Man’s Shop, which has everything for HIM.

   • 1978, The MFA and the American Apparel Industry, page 10:

     With the major growth today in adultwear, it was extremely important to maintain the quota levels on both traditional and non-traditional apparel so that the total quota in any category could not be used exclusively for adultwear.

   • 1999, International Textiles, page 36:

     The UK childrenswear market certainly needs a fillip - consumer spending on childrenswear grew by just 1.5% in 1997 to reach £3.27bn. in contrast, the adultwear market grew by 7.1% (its highest level since 1988).

   • 2003, Shopping in New York, Insight Guides, →ISBN, page 78:

     Estella stocks baby clothes from designers who also do adultwear – from Three Dots, Antik Batik, and Judith Lacroix, among others.

   • 2004, Juliette Peers, The Fashion Doll: From Bébé Jumeau to Barbie, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Berg, →ISBN, page 79:

     The brown tonalities that were favoured in 1880s adultwear were also frequently seen in Jumeau dolls.

   • 2011, Josh Sims, Icons of Men’s Style, Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 073:

     Arguably, in an age before childrenswear comprised scaled-down versions of ‘adultwear’, they [shorts] helped children to think and behave like children.

   • 2020, Yamini Jhanji Dhir, “Sustainable fashion material procurement”, in Rajkishore Nayak, editor, Supply Chain Management and Logistics in the Global Fashion Sector: The Sustainability Challenge, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Human ecology determines consideration and impact of toxic materials and their concentration present in clothing, taking into account the application areas (kidswear, adultwear, lingerie, home textiles etc.).