Example Sentences

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Overdressed salads with too many carrots and not enough lettuce.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

“They’re not the only company doing the American-made thing,” Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, told me.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

Toward the end of Overdressed, Cline introduces her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes—and beautifully.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the frenzied world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year investigation and indictment of “fast fashion.”

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

Overdressed fashionables pester wounded officers and men with their unreasonable visits and futile queries.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)