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The boxy, workwear-style denim jackets and vests, tapered carpenter jeans and skirtlike aprons aren’t only functional but recall the minimalist élan of Phoebe Philo-era Céline.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020

These skirtlike garments are worn over tights and are most often rendered in sweatshirt or T-shirt fabric but are also available in leather.

From Slate • May 24, 2016

These dancers, barefoot, wear loose smoke-blue tunics over charcoal-gray pantaloons that bag out into a single skirtlike look.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2012

The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'll cut a little pennant from Rajah's sarong," said Riggs with a grin, and he reached up to the sleeping boy and hacked off a bit of his skirtlike garb.

From The Devil's Admiral by Moore, Frederick Ferdinand