gardenwear en · NOUN
Etymology
From garden + -wear.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Clothing to be worn for gardening.
Busybee Clothing is a family business who manufacture industrial clothing and supply gardenwear and protective workwear.
2014 October 8, St Helens Reporter, page 22:Wasps and bees aren’t the brainiest critters on the face of the earth, but they sure know where their dinner comes from: brightly colored flowers! So don’t go around looking like a bed of roses. Instead, try blending into the ground: Stick with beige or brown as your stock shades for gardenwear.
2002, Jerry Baker, Backyard Problem Solver: 2,168 Natural Solutions for Growing Great Grass, Super Shrubs, Bright Bulbs, Perfect Perennials, Amazing Annuals, Vibrant Vegetables, Terrific Trees, and Much, Much More!, American Master Products, Inc., page 224:Here are ingenious tools, lovely vases, double-duty planters, practical and stylish gardenwear—in short, all the newest and best for up-to-the-minute gardeners.
1955 April, Holiday, volume 17, number 4, page 147:“My favorite gardenwear,” she replies, “is an old pair of Land’s^([sic]) End pants called stringalongs.[…]”
1996, Robin Chotzinoff, People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 114:My usual summer gardenwear is baggy pants, a long-sleeved baggy shirt, knee-high boots and gloves.
2009 June 20, Renee Studebaker, “So there are less toxic mosquito repellents? OK, I’ll bite”, in Austin American-Statesman, page F10: