retailored

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Just fifteen when she began filming “Oz,” Pellegrini made garrulous public appearances well into her eighties, usually wearing a flower-pot hat and retailored versions of her original Munchkin duds.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2018

In 2015, the company partnered with Re/Done, a business that bought vintage Levi's products, retailored them, relabeled them and sold them online at prices that could be as high as $300.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2018

But much of what Ms. Alibar wrote had to be retailored for the cast, especially the star, Quvenzhané Wallis, who was 6 when filming began.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2013

Unsurprisingly, Britt, the playboy son of crusading Daily Sentinel publisher James Reid, has been retailored as a wide-eyed slacker to fit the Rogen persona.

From Reuters • Jan. 12, 2011

The title means "the tailor retailored," or "the patcher repatched," and the book professed to be "a complete Resartus philosophy of clothes."

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph