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Sleeveless dress worn over a shirt Pinafore, pinny, pinafore dress [5] Jumper, jumper dress, dress Old-fashioned style of apron Pinafore apron [6] Pinafore, pinafore apron [6] Sleeveless padded garment used as outerwear Gilet, body warmer [7] Vest, puffer vest [7] [8] Sleeveless garment used as outerwear Waistcoat [9] Vest, [8] tailored vest
Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal element for men, the dinner suit or dinner jacket.
Informal wear or undress, also called business wear, corporate/office wear, tenue de ville or dress clothes, is a Western dress code for clothing defined by a business suit for men, and cocktail dress or pant suit for women. On the scale of formality, it is considered less formal than semi-formal wear but more formal than casual wear.
A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a one-piece outer garment that is worn on the torso and hangs down over the legs and is primarily worn by women or girls. [1] [2] Dresses often consist of a bodice attached to a skirt. Dress shapes and silhouettes, textiles, and colors vary.
Japanese bride wearing a strapless dress, 2010. In 2012, the strapless dress was described as the most widely requested style for Western wedding dresses. [20] Vera Wang is sometimes credited with introducing this style of bridal dress in the first decade of the 21st century, [20] although strapless dresses were an increasingly valid option from the 1990s onwards with the growing popularity of ...
A backless dress is a style of women's clothing designed to expose the wearer's back. The back may be either partially exposed with a low cut or fully exposed with the use of strings. A backless dress is most commonly worn on formal occasions or as evening wear or as wedding dresses and can be of any length, from a miniskirt-length
American silk and cotton ball gown, circa 1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art A gown, from the Saxon word, gunna, [1] is a usually loose outer garment from knee-to-full-length worn by people of both sexes in Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the 17th century, and continuing today in certain professions; later, the term gown was applied to any full-length woman's garment consisting of a bodice ...
The traditional chef's uniform (Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham, Paris, by William Orpen, painted ca. 1921)The traditional chef's uniform (or chef's whites) includes a toque blanche ("white hat"), white double-breasted jacket, pants in a black-and-white houndstooth pattern, [1] and apron.