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Garment vs Topstitch - What's the difference?

garment | topstitch |

As nouns the difference between garment and topstitch

is that garment is a single item of clothing while topstitch is a sewing technique, most often used on garment edges such as necklines and hems, where it helps facings to stay in place and gives a crisp edge.

As a verb topstitch is

to stitch in this fashion.

garment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A single item of clothing.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • Derived terms

    * touch the hem of someone's garment
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    topstitch

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (sewing, uncountable) A sewing technique, most often used on garment edges such as necklines and hems, where it helps facings to stay in place and gives a crisp edge.
  • (countable) An individual stitch of this kind.
  • Derived terms

    * topstitching

    Verb

  • To stitch in this fashion.