formal dress

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The BBC contacted a range of companies to ask if they had a formal dress code and whether shorts would be acceptable to wear to the office, if styled professionally.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

A festival in Mozart’s picturesque birthplace at the foot of the Austrian Alps, a city that attracts hordes of summer tourists along with well-heeled audiences in formal dress, may not exactly suit L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2024

In the 1938 shot, many don formal dress, and some hoist cans of salmon, celebratory symbols of the 1933 formation of the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

So, when she accompanied her husband on a business trip to my city this summer and asked to borrow a formal dress for an event, I had no qualms about lending one.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2022

The lot was crowded with people in formal dress: witnesses.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer