Sentence examples for workaday clothes from inspiring English sources
The Met choristers, portraying the members of the opera company, look relaxed in their workaday clothes, designed by Mara Blumenfeld.
"Cast off your wet workaday clothes of doubt cynicism and ennui and slip into the shimmering gown of celebration hope and enchantment.
Maybe it's tied to the rise of the pre-collection, those previously dull, workaday clothes that we're always told now make up about 70 per cent of designers' turnover.
There used to be a noted Spa in Luddenden Dene, where it was reported one Spaw Sunday that the riff-raff had walked over from Old Town and Peckett Well in clogs and their workaday clothes, hardly the correct attire for a Sunday celebration.
The evening, in fact, begins with a nice touch in which Ziegler is stripped of her workaday modern clothes and gradually arrayed in the hooped artifice of 18th-century costume.
For this gesture, and for refusing to sign an affidavit saying the trip had been organized by the Communist Party, Ms. Hunt became unemployable, as she writes in "What We Wore," a picture book of film stills, publicity shots and newspaper clippings that details, with poignancy and humor, the workaday life of a film star through clothes.
It is an archetypal American story, the summer job that helps a teenager save for a car, clothes or college, that provides a first taste of the workaday world and sometimes even a crucial steppingstone.
Gene described their dad, Eugene Meyer, as a businessman who seemed stunted by his workaday week, but flowered on weekends, in Day-Glo batik and Lily Pulitzer golf clothes.
One big workaday room, the museum proper displays perhaps 20 life-size models dressed in the clothes of a particular region, with other examples hung on the walls.
Workaday routine was reestablished quickly.
