A person or store that makes or sells clothes, especially men's clothing and suits.
From cloth + -ier (a French suffix creating agent nouns). Emerged in Middle English (1300s) to describe merchants specializing in cloth and finished garments, distinct from mere cloth-weavers.
A clothier occupies a distinctive niche in fashion history—not a tailor (who makes custom clothes) or a dressmaker (usually women's formal wear) but specifically someone who deals in ready-made garments, a role that became hugely important with industrial clothing production.
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