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wardrobe

[wawr-drohb] / ˈwɔr droʊb /


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Speaking over Zoom from New York, dressed in his typical wardrobe of black shirt and black sport jacket, Mungiu is wryly amused when I ask if that Dracula dig was inspired by personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Matthew Price’s wardrobe for Ms. Sosanya could do as much to benefit the cause of unisex fashion as the Cathcarts strategy does to undermine the principle of the prenuptial agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Mackie, the fashion designer who died Monday at 87 years old, had taken inspiration from Cher’s wardrobe, sheathing Barbie in a sleek, gold-sequined gown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

She added that she is noticing "people are willing to spend a little bit more" on wardrobe staples and items that "wash well and are made of cotton, not acrylic or polyester".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

With a brief demonstration, the wardrobe mistress showed Penelope how to stitch fresh feathers to the bare spots.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The designers said in a note they wanted to "open the wardrobes of the great Sicilian families" and create a dialogue between "the precious and the everyday".

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The history of preppy style is rooted in the wardrobes of students at Ivy League schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Hidden compartments built into two of the bedroom wardrobes were uncovered, containing approximately £1.4m.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

Narratively, their characters — a heroine and her nemesis — shouldn’t dress as though they could swap wardrobes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

He came away from the window, he prowled about the room, touching things, looking at the pictures, opening wardrobes, fingering my clothes, already unpacked.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Before taking part in the ceremony, he’s wardrobed in “traditional” attire, which the British have crafted based on Indian drawings.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2018

A woman dressed as a sailboat stood proudly on one side; several others wardrobed like giant Gerbera daisies — their lean green-suited bodies topped with giant multi-petal hats.

From Washington Post

“I didn’t know how it worked at all,” Mr. Sessa said of celebrity dressing — in strategic terms, a wardrobing “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

Not that he thinks the solution lies in wardrobing.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

Aside from wardrobing Tom Cruise in “Vanilla Sky” as well as providing clothes for several “Mission: Impossible” and James Bond movies, Varvatos has largely stayed out of Hollywood until now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2019

Others accept behavior such as "wardrobing" — in which customers buy an item, use it and then return it — as a hazard of doing business.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 2, 2014

Her name recognition soared after she spent a season wardrobing contestants for the hit TV reality show Star Factory.

From Time Magazine Archive




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