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

Hitherto Edward Henry had imagined that a fashionable evening shirt should be, before aught else, bullet-proof.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold

Of course he kissed her back, but his hands on her waist were rigid, as if he wore an evening shirt, and was afraid of her crushing the front of it.

From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada

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