prêt-à-porter

First use appears c. 1957 in Punch. See cite below. Reborrowed from French prêt-à-porter (1951), itself a calque of English ready-to-wear.^[1]

prêt-à-porter (not comparable)

1. Ready-to-wear.
   • 1957, Francis Cowley Burnand, Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Owen Seaman, Shirley Brooks, Tom Taylor (editors), Punch, volume 232, page 136:

     gloves, scarves, jewellery, and prêt-à-porter clothes; belts, beads, flowers, scent ... all the fleeting frivolities and lovely ephemera of the passing mode are strewn about as though by some demented diseuse gone berserk with her travelling trunk of properties.

• Synonymous with ready-to-wear, of which it is a reborrowing, but conveys a more upscale usage, due to the prestige of the French language.^[1]

• perpetrator

1951, calque of English ready-to-wear.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ.t‿a.pɔʁ.te/

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prêt-à-porter m (plural prêts-à-porter)

1. ready-to-wear clothing, off-the-rack clothing, off-the-peg clothing
   • 1951, Le Figaro, 28 Dec 1951, p.3, col. 6:^[1]

     Entre le prêt à porter et le sur-mesures classique un des plus grands tailleurs de Paris a lancé une formule inédite pour hommes.

     In between ready-to-wear clothing and traditional bespoke attire, one of the biggest tailors in Paris has launched a new option for men.

• → English: prêt-à-porter
• → Japanese: プレタポルテ (puretaporute)

Unadapted borrowing from French prêt-à-porter (“ready-to-wear”).

prêt-à-porter (comparative lebih prêt-à-porter, superlative paling prêt-à-porter)

1. (fashion) ready-to-wear

   Synonym: siap pakai

• “prêt-à-porter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.