How to Use haberdashery in a Sentence

haberdashery

noun
  • Bijan has never aspired to be the world’s hippest haberdashery or even the most stylish.
    — Maer Roshan, Town & Country, 22 Oct. 2018
  • At the table sit two young gents who are the final word in flamboyant haberdashery.
    — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
  • 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
  • Their happy haberdashery stands in sharp contrast to their lugubrious lyrics.
    — David Holahan, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The works were shown in the rooms above his family’s haberdashery shop in London.
    — K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Luhrmann is to filmmaking what Elvis’s cape and white jumpsuit are to haberdashery.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 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
  • 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
  • Her father ran a haberdashery in Harlem, and her mother was a homemaker.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • 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
  • Elegance was inherent in English style, present in its haberdashery and its wit.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • This lively downtown oyster bar just below the lobby is one of the oldest seafood spots in the city, housed in a 1930s era haberdashery.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Patterson did not return a call seeking comment on Finchem's haberdashery choices.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Various business ventures occupied the sites over the years, including a haberdashery, printing business and ice-cream shop.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 29 May 2021
  • Haitians put down stakes in the 1970s, opening eateries, haberdasheries, tax-assistance services and grocery stores.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 18 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Twist after twisty twist — that's what The Blacklist delivered every week along with James Spader's charm, wit, and haberdashery.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 14 July 2023
  • The store was first established in 1935 as a haberdashery selling formal menswear in downtown Milwaukee.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018
  • Some version of the jacket can probably be found in most every haberdashery in Italy and, for all one knows, on the sales floor at Macy’s Herald Square.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 22 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Launching menswear in 1981, Montana often applied elements of haberdashery to his ready-to-wear, and the result was to imbue his designs with power.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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