full evening dress

While other guests were in full evening dress, this fellow had wrapped a faixa — a traditional Catalan sash — around his forehead.

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

Sean Connery carried it off with icily disdainful style, perhaps at the baccarat table, in full evening dress with a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Like the contrails of a jetliner, the first couple leave behind a photo spread of face-framing hats, designer evening gowns, one Gucci postcard frock, one pussybow blouse and one spectacularly ill-fitting example of full evening dress.

Tickets for the red-carpet premieres are like gold dust – some hopeful punters stand for hours in full evening dress holding placards begging for a seat – and once secured, they still have to pass muster with the infamous red carpet fashion police.