high-style

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A high-style zoot suit, chopped up and reassembled as a textile collage by Michie, is titled “Tacuche #3,” a Mexican colloquialism for “suit” that also means “rags.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022

M Boutique, a hotel that mixes the rustic, industrial and whimsy, became the city’s most high-style property in an area rife with used-car showrooms.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2018

All of the cast members looked great in Cynthia Savage’s contemporary costumes, from the high-style glamour of the sisters’ outfits to the hilarious “biker dudes” get-up assumed by their boyfriends in disguise.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2018

“The Thin Man” set the tone of high-style romantic movies.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

Figure 49.—Early 19th century: The designation "gentleman's tool chest" required a chest of "high-style" but necessitated no change in the tools it held.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.