wardrobe vs workwear

wardrobe

noun
  • Any collection of clothing. 

  • Any collection of anything. 

  • Anything that similarly stores or houses something. 

  • A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes. 

  • A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room. 

  • The building housing such a department. 

  • A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture. 

  • A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom. 

  • The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing. 

  • The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s). 

verb
  • To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes. 

workwear

noun
  • Clothes designed to be worn while working, especially in a physically demanding job. 

How often have the words wardrobe and workwear occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )