The issue of whether it's a date or not is resolved fairly easily, when I turn up at the gallery opening, self-conscious and overdressed in a short dress, heels and what I hope, optimistically, is age-defying make up (the age difference, though it's only five years, makes me nervous).
Suzanne Maguire and Serena Howarth, self-described "laid off, depressed, dot-bomb slackers," who live a few blocks from Pac Bell Park, were attending their first game of the season, a little under- and overdressed in tank tops and sandals.
His burgeoning film career in the 1980s was cemented by his breakthrough performance in Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisonss, in which he appeared, arch and overdressed in powdered wig and frills, as the perversely seductive Vicomte de Valmont.
Instead, he seems in unaccountably rude health, raffishly handsome, gloriously overdressed in a morning suit and polka dot scarf, and lewd on request.
I often feel overdressed in a wetsuit, but this was ridiculous.
Here and there the writing may be jarringly fortissimo — "then the maggot that crawled along her nerves would die" — but more typically Ozick achieves a superb aptness: "The wedding cake was wheeled in on a cart, like a belated and infirm guest gallantly overdressed in too many fringes and tassels".
He's polite, but up for anything, and already looks overdressed in his suit.
Bell, discreetly overdressed in gym shorts and a gray T-shirt, was in the sauna at the Wall Street Bath & Spa — a torpor-inducing grotto where she was much the liveliest person.
Bell, discreetly overdressed in gym shorts and a gray T-shirt, was in the sauna at the Wall Street Bath & Spa a torpor-inducing grotto where she was much the liveliest person.
But on a Sunday morning in early December, it was a relatively easy and, for two Easterners, overdressed in turtlenecks, slightly surreal drive.
"We didn't know anyone, we had no connections, we stood around overdressed in big boots and jackets, and we felt like idiots.
