pinafore

Her teachers instantly recognized the pinafore dress and bonnet, but her fellow students didn’t know who she was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“I love the scale of the check. I thought it harked back to the original pinafore she wore in the first ‘Beetlejuice,’” says Atwood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

On the night she died, she had dressed up in a frilly blouse and pinafore dress.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022

It looked like old lady clothes, but also the pinafore type of things.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

“A modest bodice is what I’m thinking, with a minimum of frill. Simple and plain. A gathered skirt. You can wear that pinafore on top when you’re working. Do you have more than one pinafore?”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

In photos I saw when she was a kid and I was a kid, she looked like one of us, in pinafores and high pigtails, or Benetton sweaters and frizzy hair.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

We met her surrounded by piles of jumpers, pinafores and donated warm coats.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2022

Gingham and prints of island life added girlish charm to the relaxed shapes, which included pieces like pinafores, low-slung shorts and men's style shirts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2012

Now that you see that pinafores are not an option, restart negotiations, but with an eye to the real world.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2011

Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë