evening clothes
Example Sentences
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Since movie anti-heroines have often been like that for decades, though, it’s like Ms. Gyllenhaal is expecting applause for being the 75th person to jump in the swimming pool in her evening clothes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The man known for tailored daywear had quietly built a repertoire of exquisite evening clothes, many of them on loan from their famous owners for the Guggenheim exhibit.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
"We do oftentimes do neutrals, but to us, evening clothes just come to life when they're in color," said Badgley.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2022
When court dress was expected at European state functions, Americans considered it unseemly for the representatives of a democracy, so American diplomats were instructed to wear ordinary evening clothes.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
In New York at the Waldorf-Astoria a few years into the new century, several dozen young men in evening clothes gathered around a gigantic pie.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
