party dress

Example Sentences

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I showed up at the restaurant in a party dress, heels and a big smile, trying not to let memories of finding a table in the school cafeteria paralyze me.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

Often, party dress codes—the first of this kind may have been in Vancouver in 2002—encourage their tackiness and that guests compete to see who donned the most disastrous one.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024

From school uniforms to a party dress, costume designer Colleen Atwood turns her gothic style into hot fashion chic.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

It was not like doing kick-ball-change in a party dress.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

My mother inspects the bedroom she used to share with Tfa Felicia, vacant now except for a frilly party dress hanging in the closet.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García