Sentence examples for proper dresses from inspiring English sources

Over the years, hundreds of the shows have been held on Sunday afternoons, with women of all generations — many turned out in flowery hats, fine jewelry and proper dresses — leaving morning church services to get to the fair.

All around the capital, women emerged in an array of summer dresses – not sundresses, you understand, but proper dresses with structure, style and more than a slip of a sleeve – accessorized with statement shoes.

Further, the school environment demands that girls have proper dresses.

The inability of parents to provide proper dresses was causing some girls to leave school to work in order to acquire proper dresses and then come back to school later.

Often, girls have to work more than boys, have no proper dresses, or are being forced by circumstances into prostitution; and, indeed, the problem of hunger has its own associated consequences.

We got a proper dressing down afterwards.

According to Wind, Jones was a stickler for "good manners, proper dress, and polite language".

They are to be assisted with "portfolio development, résumé writing, proper dress and interview techniques training".

In a memo, the firm instructed employees to "exercise good judgment" when determining proper dress.

It's beautiful, but I really need to get a proper dressing table.

I agree with the parent who says that "proper dressing" should be the "parent's job".