yachtwear

English

Etymology

From yacht +‎ -wear.

Noun

yachtwear (uncountable)

1. Clothing to be worn on a yacht.
   • 1994, Sam Llewellyn, Maelstrom, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 158–159:

     They were wearing expensive wet gear in matching buff and pale blue, of the type international yachtwear designers do not realize will make the wearer invisible in five seconds if he falls overboard.

   • 2008, Nigel Farrell, An Island Parish: A Summer on Scilly, Headline, →ISBN, page 147:

     There is a small range of shops on St Mary’s; apart from Steve the butcher and Mumfords, there’s a chemist in Hugh Town, a Post Office, the Co-op stores, a newly opened delicatessen and four clothes shops, mostly selling designer yachtwear; but, strangely for such a seafaring community, there’s no fishmonger.

   • 2012, 1,001 Ways the Republican Party Is Screwing the Middle Class, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 212:

     It’s Mitt Romney, and an almost ninety-year-old guy in what looks like formal yachtwear.