A person employed in making, selling, or dealing in clothes; a clothier or tailor.
From clothes + man. An older occupational term from the 1600s-1800s for anyone whose primary work involved garments, now mostly replaced by specific terms like tailor, clothier, or designer.
The term 'clothesman' reveals how clothing production was once primarily a male-dominated skilled trade, even though women did much of the actual sewing work—language often hides the invisible labor of women in history.
Male-default occupational term. 'Man' suffix historically restricted such roles to men in practice, even when women performed identical labor.
Use 'clothier' or 'clothes seller' instead, which are gender-neutral and already standard in English.
["clothier","clothes seller","garment worker"]
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