shell suit

noun

1. a lightweight tracksuit consisting of an inner cotton layer covered by a waterproof nylon layer

Example Sentences

"Her in a shell suit in the nineties, with her hair half-up, half-down. Angry, smoking her Benson and Hedges, thinking that she's grown. I've actually learned to love her again."

From BBC

Whenever Jimmy was off his knob, it felt as though he'd been taken away from me, like a Stepford wife in a shell suit.

From Salon

“I’ve never worn a shell suit since,” adds Ian.

From The Guardian

“He wore a shell suit and trainers – I asked him to go back and change,” she says, laughing.

From The Guardian

We had barely made it past the previews when she upped and sat in the row ahead of me, next to her friend, who was having her face chewed by a boy whose mother had melted iron marks into the sleeve of his nylon shell suit.

From The New Yorker