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rag trade
noun
- the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
rag trade
noun
- informal.the clothing business, esp the aspects concerned with the manufacture and sale of dresses
Other Words From
- rag trader noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of rag trade1
Example Sentences
It is also a nod to London's famous rag trade - the city's fabric merchants, tailors and dressmakers who once dominated the area where the Barbican Centre now stands.
Before long, her place among the elites of the rag trade was secure.
His father Gil, brash and charismatic, spent decades in “the rag trade” and traveled to Southeast Asia, bringing back silk scarves and clothes for his wife, Abby.
Ethan’s father, Gil, is a “rag trade” entrepreneur whose travels have taken him to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Bangladesh, as well as Thailand.
In Uganda, she photographed the literal signs of the rag trade — as in: the painted, storefront signs that advertise used clothing from the U.S.
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