Dress Down

Add to this list a pair of chocolate-brown, stretch cords and a pair of the same in black—great for dress-down Fridays, smart weekends and school meetings. ❋ Tina Gaudoin (2011)

The designer, not known for dress-down clothing, said with this collection he wanted to make clothes that are "multifunctional and multioccasion," since women today "don't go home and change to go out, they go with or without a change in accessories." ❋ Ray A. Smith (2011)

He had NO answers, a total dress-down by Goober Graham. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The heavily freckled South African entrepreneur, in dotcom regulation dress-down attire, is bursting to fight back against perceptions of his business as a predator exploiting the desperate and destitute — a "legal loan shark" as its critics have labelled it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If you go with a tie-dye shirt to the office, you are most likely to get your boss call you in and telling you, 'That is not something you wear to the office unless it is a dress-down Friday.' ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dinner at the View, the dress-down, fine-dining restaurant, begins with a refreshing beetroot, pineapple and melon shooter. ❋ Emma-Kate Symons (2011)

Which just makes me look like a trainee accountant on dress-down Friday. ❋ Holly McQueen (2010)

However, both the media and the politicians seem to have completely missed the dress-down and all sides are pissin' and moanin' about what wasn't in it for them and they're digging in deeper, entrenching themselves even further into their own partisan ideologies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is your dress-down timepiece, worn everywhere from the beach to the ski slopes or for pottering around in the garden. ❋ Ken Kessler (2010)

While the collection won't work as everyday wear on Wall Street, the trench and pea coats and a number of wool jackets offer the kind of well-constructed edge that many men seek on dress-down days. ❋ Christina Binkley (2010)

Gas station attendants or anybody else in the service industry might suffer a debilitating dress-down from my father. ❋ Greg Fitzsimmons (2010)

He proposes that schools "counter conspicuous consumption" by requiring student uniforms; that workplaces institute dress-down policies so employees can "avoid squandering money on suits and other expensive clothes"; and that the government use taxes to "discourage the purchase of ever-larger houses, cause people to favor public transportation over cars, and encourage the use of commercial aviation rather than private jets." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The stories of corruption and laxity of officials are prevalent; specifically of those departments directly responsible for carrying into effect the rehabilitation process are major target of public criticism and severe dress-down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While it would be tough to top Bill's Inside Edition meltdown, or his Geraldo mano-a-mano meltdown, or his turning-off-the-mike, dress-down of his own sidekick meltdown, the McClellan interview may go down in TV history as the worst interview ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Mrs. Smith] gave me a dressing down for being late to the exam. [A tank] top at a [funeral]? Talk about dressing down. She can do way better than him. I don't know why she's always dressing down. ❋ Commander Troi (2009)

How much [are you] [going] to dress down at [the party]? ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2008)

Despite her attempts to dress down by wearing long pants and a [coat], [that shit] was still [poppin' out all over the place]! ❋ Rich Rick (2012)

Being [a Dress] Down Friday, [Evette] always ended up with [cobwebs] on her nipples. ❋ Nikki-D (2007)

Joey [turned up] to work in his normal work clothes whilst all his [colleagues] had [remembered] to come in casual clothing, Poor Joey has some kind of Dress Down Syndrome. ❋ Sam Buca (2010)

[You are] so dressed up dressed down [today]! ❋ Québecindépendant (2017)