Sentence examples for plain dress from inspiring English sources
She wore a plain dress and had curly black hair.
Mr. Otway grew up a Quaker and still affects a mustacheless beard and plain dress.
When he does catch sight of her later, wearing a plain dress, he assumes that she's a barmaid.
The JPG graffiti prints were cleverly worked; so was a "Factory" splash of silver on a plain dress, or blousons scrunched and compressed.
In America, as in England, plain dress and rich dress became, in effect, the respective symbols of the Puritan and the Cavalier, respectively.
To demonstrate her attachment and availability to her subjects the empress walked "in the park in a plain dress... mingling with the public".
Among these were gorgeously plain dresses in, say, dark green silk or pale pink with a swag at one side.
Plain dresses, given a fillip with epaulettes disembodied from the traditional trench coat, might be good for the boardroom.
We are in a land of courteous lawmen and soulful outlaws, skinny women in plain dresses and squinty-eyed killers in black hats.
What worked very well at Marni were tunics and plain dresses in a variety of fabrics, like wool and papery silk.
People who survived the postwar period in Paris will tell you that her collection of bright jewels and plain dresses was so famous that her name came to be a part of the expatriate language.
