chefwear

English

The traditional chef’s uniform (Le Chef de l’Hôtel Chatham, Paris, by William Orpen, painted ca. 1921)

Etymology

From chef +‎ -wear.

Noun

chefwear (uncountable)

1. Clothing to be worn by chefs.
   • 2000, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 257–258:

     When I dropped by to see him recently, passing first through his stylishly sparse sixty-five-seat dining room, past his four sommeliers – count them, four – through a kitchen staffed by serious- looking young Americans in buttoned-up Bragard jackets with the Veritas logo stitched on their breasts and chefwear MC Hammer pants, down a flight of stairs, I found him wrapping a howitzer-sized log of foie gras in cheesecloth.

   • 2003, Emeril Lagasse, From Emeril’s Kitchens: Favorite Recipes from Emeril’s Restaurants‎^[1], William Morrow, →ISBN:

     Emerilware and cutlery, cookbooks, specialty food products, chefwear, and more

   • 2006, Bonny Wolf, Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 72:

     There has been, however, something of an apron revival—modern chefwear catalogs feature clogs, chef’s pants, and serious aprons.

   • 2013, Jenny Linford, Food Lovers’ London, →ISBN, page 341:

     A smart City branch of the established Soho business, specialising in chefwear and footwear.

   • 2014, Shelley Costa, Basil Instinct, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 160:

     Meanwhile, I shucked my chefwear long enough to do two things.

   • 2015, Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 531:

     One number directly alluded to that show’s “Butter and Egg Man,” with three men in chefwear vying for the attention of a female singer.

   • 2017, Stacey Ballis, How to Change a Life, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 135:

     My recent bet-related embracing of a fitness regimen required the acquisition of some gear, since, while chefwear is comfortable for a lot of things, working out isn’t on the list.

Further reading

• Chef's uniform on Wikipedia.Wikipedia