evening dress

Example Sentences

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She said she used to attend some classes “wearing my evening dress under my Burberry, with my diamonds in my pocket so I could go out afterward.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Items included the "perfect" white cotton t-shirt, a striped blue "boyfriend" shirt and white linen trousers, as well as more formal items such as a black wool blazer and a full-length, ivory-coloured evening dress.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

There was a playful glamour in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, including a bold multicolored evening dress in 1999 for a Royal Variety Performance.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

Technically, they should only be worn with full evening dress, known as white tie, but as that hardly exists any longer … oh, go ahead.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

They were young and elegant, dressed for a ball, the women in long gowns that left their arms and shoulders bare, the men in black-and-white evening dress, and they each carried a glass.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman