dress
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They have become office attire and might as well be part of the dress code at country clubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
As host of ‘The Traitors,’ Cumming loves to dress up and play lord of the castle, but in Russell T Davies’ limited series, his latest dramatic role, he aims to shake people up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
We have been here before and there is no way to dress up the past few days as anything other than a desperately poor look for boxing.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I don’t drive a flashy car or dress extravagantly, and we both keep a pretty low profile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Rachel lowered the dress back into the bag, then took her seat.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
She has infused her suits and dresses with yellow, red, purple, or floral prints, keeping them structured yet light.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Maegan Watson, a stylist who dresses ultrahigh-net-worth families and executive women, said her clients aren’t buying as many handbags anymore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Did my frugal mindset falter for vintage dresses, bookstore runs and glasses of tinto de verano while I was abroad?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Creative director Seán McGirr brought the brand back to its roots, with a runway of devil horns, lace corsets and chainmail skull dresses.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Tall and stately, a beauty with black curls, Dolley Madison had become famous for her fashionable outfits—exotic turbans and low-cut dresses in the French style.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
She saw the child, who was fully dressed with gloves on, and thought it was a doll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
According to reports, Freda and Greta not only looked and dressed alike, but spoke in unison, as if they shared a single brain.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
When you’re out in these rural areas, the thing where you go out the most, to get dressed, is to go to church on Sunday.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
He was dressed casually in a blue, long-sleeved top, jeans and brown boots, and had his distinctive spiky hair and some facial hair.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
One of the models I recognized from the bathing suit show stood before a mirror, dressed in a gold-and-orange silk cocoon jacket with a vine-and-flower pattern.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
Rose-pink on each outspread feather, Rose-pink upon the crest,— Never were birds in plumage So ravishingly drest!
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
At best, He's but a caterpillar drest; The gaudy fop's his picture just, as poor Richard says.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
A face that's best25 By its owne beauty drest, And can alone commend the rest.254 10.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
She sits in front of a mirror in a dressing room at the National Operetta Theater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The No. 54 is a pastrami and corned beef combo sandwich, dressed in the style of the No. 19, with Swiss cheese, coleslaw and Russian dressing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Pietersen was the most intriguing of appointments to England's dressing room staff because of his own history, but also what he has said before.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The door opened wider, and we saw then a lady in a dressing gown, coming down a huge wide staircase, and then hurrying towards us across the hallway.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
