Relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress.
‘sartorial elegance’
‘Do you know a businessman who turns heads as he strides the city's sidewalks in his perfectly tailored sartorial elegance?’
‘Patients prefer doctors to dress in a semiformal style, but when accompanied by a smiling face it is even better, suggesting a friendly manner may be more important than sartorial style.’
‘I've dressed up a bit in deference to Evans's sartorial elegance.’
‘A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol.’
‘The girls give their reactions to their fellow guests' sartorial style.’
‘Indeed her presence influenced women at court to copy her sartorial style.’
‘If you want to escape the sartorial stereotypes, you often have to pay a little more.’
‘His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.’
‘His friends and colleagues will miss his humour, conscientiousness, and sartorial elegance.’
‘I could afford to be superior about sartorial disasters I witnessed all around me.’
‘She was conscious that many women would have seen such a sartorial disaster as comical.’
‘On Bastille Day, there would be a sartorial epidemic of clothes coloured red, white, and blue.’
‘It flourished when a new, wide availability of industrially manufactured dress materials made possible a modern standard of sartorial uniformity.’
‘In his prime he was very handsome, but dressed down as if he feared any sartorial display would distract from his teaching.’
‘No wonder the Western world has been smitten by the sari, and every woman with a smidgen of sartorial savvy wants one.’
‘Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters.’
‘In the ensuing confusion, everyone in the room, king, nobles and commoners alike, ended up removing their hats, and the meeting continued on a note of sartorial equality.’
‘Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing.’
‘Despite the late-June heat - and the prospect of three hours of strenuous exercise-almost nobody had committed the sartorial faux pas of wearing short pants.’
‘Sporting sunglasses and a black sleeveless shirt, with his hair parted down the middle, he said he took his sartorial inspiration from Indian film star Tere-Naam after watching one of his movies.’
Origin
Early 19th century from Latin sartor ‘tailor’ (from sarcire ‘to patch’) + -ial.
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