enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Formal wear - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_wear

   The most formal dress for women is a full-length ball or evening gown with evening gloves. Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow. Formal wear being the most formal dress code, it is followed by semi-formal wear , equivalently based around daytime black lounge suit , and evening black tie ( dinner ...

3. Evening gown - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_gown

   An evening gown, evening dress or gown is a long dress usually worn at formal occasions. [1] The drop ranges from ballerina (mid-calf to just above the ankles), tea (above the ankles), to full-length. Such gowns are typically worn with evening gloves. Evening gowns are usually made of luxurious fabrics such as chiffon, velvet, satin, or organza.

4. Ball gown - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_gown

   Such gowns are typically worn with opera-length white gloves, vintage jewelry or couture, and a stole (a formal shawl in expensive fabric), cape, or cloak in lieu of a coat. Where " state decorations " are to be worn, they are on a bow pinned to the chest, and married women wear a tiara if they have one.

5. Morning dress - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_dress

   Morning dress, also known as formal day dress, is the formal Western dress code for day attire, [1] consisting chiefly of a morning coat, waistcoat, and formal trousers for men, and an appropriate gown for women. Men may also wear a popular variant, where all parts (morning coat or waistcoat, and trousers) are the same colour and material ...

6. Corsage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsage

   Wearing flowers pinned to clothing dates as far back as Ancient Greece, when small bunches of fragrant flowers and herbs were worn at weddings to ward off evil spirits. [5] During the 16th and 17th centuries, corsages and boutonnières may have been a part of daily life to prevent disease and to ward off evil spirits, but over time, they became ...

7. Western dress codes - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_dress_codes

   Western dress codes are a set of dress codes detailing what clothes are worn for what occasion that originated in Western Europe and the United States in the 19th century. . Conversely, since most cultures have intuitively applied some level equivalent to the more formal Western dress code traditions, these dress codes are simply a versatile framework, open to amalgamation of international and ...