dowdy

She wore dowdy skirts with equally drab cardigans.

Unthinkable as it seems, Edna was dowdy then, given to mousy brown hair and pillbox hats.

It opened hundreds of stores, from fashionable neighborhoods like SoHo in New York to dowdy airports.

“I felt like I was pretending when I was going in and auditioning to play these dowdy people.”

Coupled with a terrific performance by Long Beach Opera that includes more than one star turn, the dowdy Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro became the unlikely locale for a double operatic triumph.