Sentence examples for formal garments from inspiring English sources

Some of the bejeweled silk formal garments were gradually adopted by the church to become vestments in the Middle Ages.

The four syndics, appointed to keep quality watch on the products of guild members, wear white ruffs and black formal garments, and three carry tools of the trade in their hands.

Today, pantsuits are a formal garment worn to the office or social events.

In search of an alternative for leather, she came across the Barong Tagalog, a formal garment normally worn by Filipino men and made with the fibers of pineapple leaves.

I can't help but contrast Italian and French fashion with ours – there's a long history of them razzing things up far more jazzily than we do, and a tradition of the British drawing on working clothes for even the most formal of garments.

Some curators feel that fashion is mainly about the formal properties of garments, while others think that clothes without social context are a yawn.

Both wear garlands in their hair, suggesting that this is the consummation of some ritual; their garments seem formal, priestly.

There are loose threads you can pull at — sometimes the wide-eyed wonder slides toward willful naïveté, and there are moments of distracting formal sloppiness — but the garment will not come unraveled.

Upon learning that they are heading to Seoul, South Korea, California hairdresser Clare exclaimed, "Korea -- I don't even have a Kimono!" but I'm sure she meant a hanbok (the tradition garment for formal events in Korea, as we ALL know).

Put your formal attire in a garment bag, and pack it separately from your other luggage.

Part of the trick to wearing a formal sari is displaying the garment's palla, where much of the needlework is concentrated.