pinafore

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“I love the scale of the check. I thought it harked back to the original pinafore she wore in the first ‘Beetlejuice,’” says Atwood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

Later, sequined pinafore dresses were paired with knee-high boots and tops featured long pockets hanging like scarves.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2022

She now collects items from parents across the area and helps get them to families who need anything from a new blazer for high school to a pinafore for winter term.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2021

The audience seems equal parts dazzled and confused by the combination of lonely desperation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer obsession she presents, in cropped hair and pinafore dress.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2020

She used a pinafore that she’d worn as a costume in a play.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater