What’s the difference between “clothes” and “clothing”?Can they be used interchangeably?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
‘Clothes’ refers to individual items that you wear. You pack your clothes in a bag/case before you go away (on holiday).
‘Clothing’ is the collective noun for all sorts of clothes as in ’ Women’s/ Men’s Clothing department’ in a shop/store.
You could compare these two words with ‘shoes’ suggesting individual shoes/pairs of shoes and ‘footwear’ as the collective noun.
Alan
Thank you so much for such a quick reply.
Does the sentence " I like simple hardwearing clothing" make sense?
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do you mean…hardware…hard wear…hard wire…hard where…?
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“Hardwearing” means resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
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I think it should be [color=blue]hard-wearing (notice the hyphen in between)…
thanks for sharing a new compound word…
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According to Dictionary.com, this word is spelled together, however i do believe that both variants are possible. Thank you as well)