How to Use haberdashery in a Sentence
haberdashery
noun-
The two planned to open a haberdashery store after the war.
— Mort Mazor, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Always of note to the Observer is the haberdashery worn by the male guests, which ran the gamut from top hat to cowboy hat.
— al, 16 Feb. 2023 -
The works were shown in the rooms above his family’s haberdashery shop in London.
— K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019 -
Bijan has never aspired to be the world’s hippest haberdashery or even the most stylish.
— Maer Roshan, Town & Country, 22 Oct. 2018 -
So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery.
— David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020 -
That is, until their twenty-four-year-old son, Jonathan, loses his job at a New York City haberdashery and is forced to move back home.
— Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2019 -
At the table sit two young gents who are the final word in flamboyant haberdashery.
— Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017 -
Luhrmann is to filmmaking what Elvis’s cape and white jumpsuit are to haberdashery.
— Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022 -
Thanks to their menswear influences and expert tailoring, many of the moment’s best looks were straight out of the haberdashery.
— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022 -
Blake’s family were comfortable, rather than wealthy, as the owners of a hosiery shop and haberdashery.
— K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019 -
That shop would be Junior’s, which founder Glenn Au launched in 2020 as an online-only, one-man haberdashery that saw clients by appointment or on the road.
— Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2022 -
Her father ran a haberdashery in Harlem, and her mother was a homemaker.
— Washington Post, 4 June 2021 -
In the early 1940s, Sam Scherper, the owner of the haberdashery, renamed the business as Sherper's.
— Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018 -
And, yes, a year is long enough for one's taste in haberdashery to shift, so this isn't a cut/paste/update of last year's order, which is noted parenthetically with all 32 teams.
— Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020 -
Norman follows him into a fancy Upper East Side haberdashery and insists on buying him a pair of shoes neither one of the men could afford.
— Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017 -
There was to be a hotel and re-creations of an old-time butcher shop, barbershop, a general store, haberdashery, pool hall, an old service station and a coal mine.
— John Bordsen, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023 -
Sometime in the past decade, a new breed of attention-seeking attendee emerged, one photographers couldn’t miss, in neon plaid suits and half-a-haberdashery worth of accessories.
— Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019 -
Haitians put down stakes in the 1970s, opening eateries, haberdasheries, tax-assistance services and grocery stores.
— Simon Romero, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018 -
Elegance was inherent in English style, present in its haberdashery and its wit.
— Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 -
The store was first established in 1935 as a haberdashery selling formal menswear in downtown Milwaukee.
— Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018 -
This old-fashioned haberdashery store is always delightful with its creative window displays– for fashion and craft lovers alike, this is the place to go for ribbon and trimmings in London.
— Tom Marchant, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017 -
At one time Pasquel owned six Lincolns and had a haberdashery in his massive Mexico City mansion, often inviting players in to pick through his walk-in closets and take home whatever fit.
— Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Elizabeth Kurtzman’s colorful costumes — wild matchups of primary and pastel hues, with the odd bits of Op-Art haberdashery to spice them — are just as important.
— Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018 -
Clementine, a reformed, 72-year-old con artist whose signature haberdashery suits her glamorous Paris environs, is one of the best protagonists of the summer.
— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021 -
Some Trump defenders have noted that one of the nation’s most important presidents, Harry S. Truman, was a partner in a haberdashery that ran aground.
— Michael Beschloss, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016 -
Various business ventures occupied the sites over the years, including a haberdashery, printing business and ice-cream shop.
— Keiko Morris, WSJ, 29 May 2021 -
The British holiday haberdashery has just revealed its Christmas Tree Decoration calculator, which will tell you just how many baubles and lights your festive foliage needs.
— Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 28 Nov. 2022 -
Even after years of design development and progression towards perfection, this industry still pays homage to haberdashery and the roots of fine attire.
— Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2021 -
And yet, many people still don't know what to make of Monk, whose spontaneous bandstand dances, cryptic silences and swank haberdashery fed unrealistic perceptions.
— Steve Dollar, NBC News, 2 June 2017 -
Patterson did not return a call seeking comment on Finchem's haberdashery choices.
— Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2017
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