The word "underdress" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to describe a dress that is worn underneath another garment or to refer to dressing in a less formal manner than expected for an occasion. Example: "She decided to underdress for the gala, opting for a simple sundress instead of a formal gown." Alternatives include "dress down" or "wear casually."
"The Lady with an Ermine" shows the Duke of Milan's teenage mistress in a fashionable red gown, its slit sleeves revealing a pale underdress.
For better or for worse, he helped transform the way Americans dress, or underdress; khakis and casual Fridays may go back decades (the latter supposedly began as "Aloha Fridays," in Hawaii in the sixties), but Drexler, the theory goes, put the two together and determined — in the merchant's sense both of discovering and of guiding — the taste of the time.
She tended to underdress in the long New England winter, while I wore the heavy winter coat, with buckled belt and fleecy lining, that my parents had bought me, to my embarrassment, to keep me from catching colds up in New England.
"Hi, West Point kids!" said Gruber, a native New Yorker who, in contrast to her stately, vengeful stage persona, was chatty and informal, and who slouched comfortably in the underdress of her costume, which looked a bit like a celadon nightgown.
As attendant drawings attest, Whistler designed the flowing tea gown in diaphanous fabric, spotted with embroidered rosettes, over a simple white underdress.
But if you underdress, they will think you haven't made an effort".
That does not mean abandoning the new emphases on poverty, the environment and health care; it means combining them in a way that reins in government power.So Mr Cameron is still underdressed; but he now has a couple of years to change that impression.
It's a few minutes before 10am, we're late for an academic conference and underdressed for the freezing climate.
Harriet Walker is news editor at Never Underdressed.
Discusses the fashions of the Oscars, the women wore tasteful gowns and the men were their normally underdressed selves.
Then they go in, and April P realizes that she isn't so much underdressed as just wearing the wrong clothes.
