"conventional costume" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a traditional or standard outfit that is typically worn for a specific event or occasion. For example: - The dancers at the festival wore beautiful conventional costumes, complete with intricate beading and vibrant colors. - The students were asked to come dressed in a conventional costume from their culture for the school's multicultural fair. - In some cultures, the bride and groom wear conventional costumes during their wedding ceremony instead of modern attire.
Mr. McQueen infuses what looks like a conventional costume drama with the unflinching rigor that has characterized his previous films, "Hunger" and "Shame".
That reduces a swimsuit's friction.Mizuno reckons that by reducing friction, keeping the flow orderly and delaying separation of the boundary layer, its new suits offer the average female swimmer 9.5% less drag than a conventional costume.
Set amid the rarefied realm of the French aristocracy — Louis-Philippe, the last king to rule France, sits on the throne — the film has many of the trappings of a conventional costume drama, from the rustling gowns to the glowing candelabra.
There Johan falls in love with Lotte Buff (Miriam Stein) and has a series of romantic misadventures that result in the composition of "The Sorrows of Young Werther," a far more convincing and original piece of work than this silly, conventional costume drama.
Amazon Prime Andrew Davies's adaptation of the Tolstoy tome has received some criticism for feeling a shade too much like a conventional costume drama, with the Guardian's Stuart Jeffries describing last weekend's opening episodes as "the delusive Sunday night fantasy of a past that never existed".
Balanchine is best known for works like Agon and Concerto Barocco that did away with characters, plot, sets, and conventional costumes.
"Seriously afflicted by something resembling a cold," according to a preconcert announcement by City Opera's general and artistic director, Paul Kellogg, she appeared in a tawny wig and conventional costumes, and coquetted as a Carmen who had descended from the freedom glimpsed in the rehearsal to a mere creature of stereotype.
"Downton" marries conventional British costume drama with "quite soapy plotting, with characters that provide many, many different points of entry," Mr. Neame, an executive producer, said.
And there were about 50 women and girls using the pool and only perhaps three in conventional swimming costumes.
The women wear conventional skating costumes — skimpy and spangly — but the men, for the most part, have been spared the Spandex and satin pants, although Domi made his final appearance in a short-sleeved pink shirt.
Besides, the globalization of academic ceremonies through the interplay of fashionable classics (queen mothers' dressing, toga and kͻla styles) and conventional academic costumes project the Ghanaian cultural values and enlivens the ceremonies.
