The word "wore" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that someone has put on or has been wearing in the past. For example: She wore a white dress to the wedding.
(Saying that, if you had that face and figure you'd look good in a bin-liner. I'm now trying to remember if she ever wore a bin-liner).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my favourite item of my mum's was the plainest outfit she wore: a black crepe wraparound Ossie Clark dress.
Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker frequently wore his dresses on the red carpet, while her fictional alter-ego Carrie Bradshaw spoke the designer's name in hushed tones.
He wore a "Richmond Tea Party" baseball cap, as well as a Code Pink sticker saying "Make Out, Not War".
A month later he also wore a pair of Barnstaple socks while representing the Barbarians at Twickenham.
The suspected thief is described as being white, 6ft tall, between 30 and 40 years old, of medium build, had a dark brown beard, wore a light grey hooded top with the hood pulled over his head, light blue jeans and black boot style training shoes.
And after Thatcher's memorable fall in November 1990, her predecessor wore Westminster's widest, toothiest smile and borrowed one of her own phrases: "Rejoice, rejoice".
Few women wore the hijab, let alone the burqa or niqab.
Samantha Cameron wore a pale-blue shirt dress, buttoned to the neck and with a white belt, to the polling station last Thursday.
"If I wore a kimono today I wouldn't be as comfortable as a Japanese lady, because I don't have the cultural upbringing to look like a lady in it," she says.
Pop culture, lest we forget, initially grew out of the postwar affluence that allowed working-class teenagers to express themselves though choice – the music they listened to, the clothes they wore, the styles and movements they spawned, whether mod, rocker or hippy – but it was also propelled by the progressive changes to educational access that began with the Education Act of 1944.
