1. 1成衣(對照「訂製服」;不是「很好穿」)

    Ready-to-wear clothes are made in standard sizes — S, M, L, and so on — so many people can buy the same design off a rail. Nobody measured you. The shop already has the dress. This is how almost all clothes in ordinary shops are made. Though actually, fashion people use ready-to-wear for a designer’s regular season clothes, as against clothes cut for one body only. On the high street nobody says the phrase; they just say clothes. You meet it in fashion writing, museum labels, and whenever someone wants to set standard sizes against tailor-made. It does not mean the clothes are easy to put on. It means they were made in advance, not sewn for one person.

    「ready-to-wear」指依標準尺碼(S、M、L 等)做好的衣服,很多人都能從架上拿同一款來買,店家不用為你量身。一般店裡的衣服幾乎都是這樣做的。時尚圈也用這個詞來指設計師每季的系列服裝,與只為一個人剪裁的訂製服相對。

    這個詞的重點是「事先做好」,不是「好穿」。在一般對話裡,大家通常直接說 clothes,這個詞多半出現在時尚報導、博物館說明,或需要區分成衣與訂製服的時候。常見的搭配是 「ready-to-wear clothes」,相對的是 「tailor-made」(量身訂做)。

From the word’s history

ready + to + wear.

由 ready、to、wear 三個字組成。

Wiktionary

組成ready + to + wear — already prepared for someone to put on

同家族的字

  • ready-madethe same pattern: already made, not made specially for you

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ready-to-wearadj

  • 1

    Describing apparel that does not need any tailoring (for example hemming) before it can be worn.

    • "Prêt-à-porter" is a French borrowing that refers to ready-to-wear clothing.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。