The word "gown" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a long, usually elegant, dress-like garment, typically worn to formal occasions. For example: "Alice wore a beautiful white silk gown to her sister's wedding ceremony."
Dressed in a black lace Armani Prive gown which had fashion writers salivating, Blanchett admitted to having "downed a few vodkas" while waiting to hear if she had won her third Golden Globe.
Timed to kick off London fashion week, the invitation featured an image of Campbell sashaying down a catwalk, her black gown slit all the way up the thigh, next to the benefit's title: Fashion Against Ebola.
Sure, Mick would batter a man to protect his faaa-mily, but he's also comfortable in a pink dressing gown.
But Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton University believe they have come up with a solution to bridge the often acrimonious divide between "town and gown".
Anna finds her aunt in Warsaw: when they meet, she is wearing a dressing gown, cigarette smoke curling from her fingers, a man getting dressed on her sofa.
Isabel Marant's spring/summer collection had dressing gown style belts over muslin-y dresses, and the first collection from Hillier Bartley for autumn/winter, the new label from awesome design duo Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley, has actual dressing gowns turned into coats, for a new interpretation of pajama dressing.
This may be down to the fact that tassels are everywhere – from the thing that ties a curtain back to the end of the belt on your dressing gown.
Or, if it's a minimal effort kind of day, going out in your dressing gown, tassel belt and all, is now officially fashionable.
Dressed in a traditional gown and a white lambswool hat, he accepted the honour and compared the energy-rich country to its signature Akhal-Teke breed of horses, renowned for their strength and speed.
Shaw's furniture showroom proved the perfect site, the meeting point between town and gown, where commuters could grab a beer before getting the train back to the Shires from Oxford Road station and university students and professors could get their fix of subtitled films.
A typical display note ran as follows: "House of Lanvin gown, circa 1985, gold, brown and gray silk taffeta.
