Evening Clothes

Now they were men and women of the world, very supercilious men and women; the boys condescended to Babbitt, they wore evening-clothes, and with hauteur they accepted cigarettes from silver cases. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Fantastically whirled the professionals, a young man in sleek evening-clothes and a slim mad girl in emerald silk, with amber hair flung up as jaggedly as flames. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Enter MOE REISS in bum evening-clothes and opera hat. ❋ Brett Page (N/A)

The ‘knut’ or ‘masher’ still appears, almost as in Edwardian days, in out-of-date looking evening-clothes and an opera hat, or even spats and a knobby cane. ❋ Unknown (1942)

It was as if a transformation was taking place before the marshal's eyes; the miner's "jumpers" fell away from Hal's figure, and there was a suit of evening-clothes in their place! ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

He shouted in the pool at the Coronado, and he spoke of (though he did nothing more radical than speak of) buying evening-clothes. ❋ Unknown (1920)

It was still surging, in waves of blue and yellow, striped by the black evening-clothes of the gentlemen. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Her evening-clothes bestowed on her just that degree of unreality and distinction which made it romantic to speak to her, and stirred ❋ Unknown (1915)

Her evening-clothes bestowed on her just that degree of unreality and distinction which made it romantic to speak to her, and stirred a desire to talk, which irritated him because he did not know how to begin. ❋ Virginia Woolf (1911)

She came to almost immediately, under the stimulus of a bottle of salts held to her nostrils; and, when she opened her eyes, she saw bending over her a young man, in evening-clothes, with a smiling and friendly face, who said: ❋ Maurice Leblanc (1902)

Indians, but he also wanted to introduce the evening-clothes feature. ❋ Daniel Frohman (1895)

He nodded gratefully and took the place, and the manner of his sitting down was that of a man who wears evening-clothes only under compulsion. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)