How to Use unwearable in a Sentence

unwearable

adjective
  • Ninety-nine percent of fashion week trends fall into camp unwearable, but the look at Tibi was different.
    Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Speaking of unwearable shoes, there are actually a few tricks that support wearing of sky high heels for prolonged hours.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • These aren’t people gallivanting around Paris in unwearable bucket hats or battling the ghosts of centuries-old tragedies.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The TenNine is absolutely next-level in terms of downhill performance but feels unwearable in a public place—not to mention in my car.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2021
  • At present, superfluous, unwearable clothes have no purpose in a closet.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The right pair of warm winter tights can make an outfit go from unwearable to seasonally appropriate in seconds, but finding a pair that’ll block the chill while also looking stylish isn’t easy.
    Lauren Caruso, CNN Underscored, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Amid the usual impractical and unwearable outfits on stage, some designers went their own way and featured—gasp—women’s wear with large pockets.
    Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Almost always, that merchandise is corny and unwearable.
    Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 15 June 2018
  • Some items being touted online promise high filtration scores, but the material would be unwearable.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Its mixture of materials (suede, carbon fiber, neoprene) feels super futuristic, but not in an unwearable way.
    Liz Raiss, GQ, 14 May 2018
  • As a result, the Deepsea Challenge is necessarily huge, with a diameter of 50 millimeters: something that made the experimental watch taken down by James Cameron unwearable due to the weight of stainless steel involved.
    WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Wearable clothes are sold to resale markets in developing countries, and unwearable textiles are turned into rags and lower-quality fibers for things like insulation.
    Alden Wicker, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Highly unwearable and entirely unaffordable, but a BFD.
    Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Whether that means shortening necklaces, as Queen Elizabeth II has done to ensure a better fit, or entirely dissembling stomachers—an accessory often unwearable with modern clothing—most of the royal jewels have been through something of a journey.
    Jennifer Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022

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