Crossword clues for rag trade
rag trade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rag trade
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet I didn't want to be consigned to the rag trade.
▪ As a city it has a great deal to offer - especially to some one like myself who works in the rag trade.
▪ Beware of an opportunist rag trade beginning to sell you recycled clothing under the guise of social awareness.
▪ It can be adapted to clothing and Clarks intends to sell its expertise to the rag trade.
▪ My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees.
▪ No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.
▪ The rag trade adopted the same approach when it came to designing and flogging its clobber.
Wiktionary
rag trade
n. (context informal English) The fashion industry.
WordNet
rag trade
n. makers and sellers of fashionable clothing [syn: apparel industry, garment industry, fashion industry, fashion business]
Usage examples of "rag trade".
However she's not going to use her overriding vote, Mike can go to Melbourne but only if he can find a job in the rag trade first and he'll have to stay with Sarah, Morrie and Sophie.
Body styling would probably never be as big or influential as the rag trade, but a few practitioners to the hi-thrust set had carved themselves a niche in the world of fashion.
Beverly Rogan, who's in the rag trade, a field to which more are called but even fewer chosen.
I think Don Francisco maintains someone in the ghetto, but they don't get about much outside the rag trade.