Evening dress may refer to:
- Evening gown, a woman's dress worn for formal occasions and evening events.
- White tie, the most formal civilian dress code in Western fashion
- Black tie, a semi-formal dress code for evening events and social functions in Western fashion
- Mess dress, the formal evening dress worn in the mess or at other formal occasions by military personnel
Famous quotes containing the words evening and/or dress:
“The thought of you will constantly elevate my life; it will be something always above the horizon to behold, as when I look up at the evening star. I think I know your thoughts without seeing you, and as well here as in Concord. You are not at all strange to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchases. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman’s dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)