evening shirt

Example Sentences

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When the unexpected guest arrived at the party, attired in a trendy grey dinner jacket, blue-grey evening shirt and black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where is the Chesterfield, the spat, and the well-starched evening shirt?

From Time Magazine Archive

In the offing, miserably self-conscious, a crush hat on the back of his really fine head, and two or three small locomotive headlights glinting from his broad expanse of evening shirt, was “Boiler-plate” Hartopp.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various

The evening shirt is of plain white linen, with two shirt buttons and link cuffs, straight standing collar, white lawn or linen tie.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

The first thing it showed to me was a gray face and gray hair, and a stain that was not gray, but rather ominously dark, on the torn, white front of the man’s evening shirt.

From Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery by Martin, Absalom