evening dress

Example Sentences

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She said she used to attend some classes “wearing my evening dress under my Burberry, with my diamonds in my pocket so I could go out afterward.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Items included the "perfect" white cotton t-shirt, a striped blue "boyfriend" shirt and white linen trousers, as well as more formal items such as a black wool blazer and a full-length, ivory-coloured evening dress.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

There was plenty of sparkle, and an asymmetrical set of huge tiered ruffle bell sleeves on one high-neck evening dress in white.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

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

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

And I thought of the dark steep path through the woods, and how, if a woman stood there behind the trees, her evening dress would rustle in the thin night breeze.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier