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:
“When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards.... Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)