Clothing - Garment - Dress - Wear - Gear
These are all words for the things that you wear, such as shirts, jackets, dresses and trousers.
Clothes (pl.) the things that you wear, such as shirts, jackets, dresses and trousers.
Clothing [U] (rather formal) clothes, especially a particular type of clothes: Warm clothing.
Garment (formal) a piece of clothing: He was wearing a strange shapeless garment. Remember that garment should only be used in formal or literary contexts; in everyday contexts use a piece of clothing.
Dress [U] clothes, especially when worn in a particular style or for a particular occasion: We were allowed to wear casual dress on Fridays.
Wear[U] (usually in compounds) clothes fora particular purpose or occasion, especially when it is being sold in shops/stores: The children’s wear department.
Gear[U] (informal) clothes: Her friends were all wearing the latest gear (= fashionable clothes).
CLOTHES OR CLOTHING?
Clothing is more formal than clothes and is used especially to mean ‘a particular type of clothes’. There is no singular form of clothes or clothing: a piece/an item/ an article of clothing is used to talk about one thing that you wear such as a dress or shirt.
PATTERNS
*casual clothes/clothing/dress/wear/gear
*evening/formal clothes/dress/wear
*designer/sports clothes/clothing/garments/wear/gear
*children’s/men’s/women’s clothes/clothing/ garments/wear
*a to have on/be in/wear ...clothes/garments/dress/gear
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