Evening Dress

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:

    “This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “Borrow a child and get on welfare.
    Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
    or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
    to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
    be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
    back ...”
    —Susan Griffin (b. 1943)