This he accordingly did with the greatest simplicity, and excused himself on the plea that he had no evening clothes at present, but was intending to get some.
The first intimation she had of the dinner party was the arrival of a parcel of evening clothes, which Harry had purchased that morning in the Strand.
That was a vastly different matter from his own and Cora's, and the great world of the Roc and the Domino where there was continual music and people drank things called liqueurs and wore evening clothes.
Moreover the very fact that I was not in evening clothesmade it all the more suspicious.
On the floor between the window and an old oak table which had practically hidden it from the doorway, lay the body of a man in evening clothes, one side of his shirt-front stained a dark colour.
But I was in a state of such complete bodily satisfaction that I did not much care what should happen, and sat still until the door of my room was opened and a young man dressed in evening clothes came in.
I'm sorry I haven't brought my evening clothes," I said, as I took my seat.
Lord Arthur had laid out my evening clothes, and was still in the room, evidently ready for a little conversation.
Cressey lost himself in mental calculations out of which he presently delivered himself to this effect: "Evening clothes, of course.
The ices were being cleared away when a newspaper man, not in evening clothes, slipped in and talked for a moment with Mr. Gordon of The Ledger.
He was clad in a long gray topcoat of fine texture and fashionable cut--a coat unbuttoned and flung open by the same furious hand which had rent and torn at the suit of evening clothes he wore beneath.
Blessed lucky thing for me that I had to lend you a suit of evening clothes, b'gad, or I might not have found the bracelet for heaven knows how long.
As it was an evening reception I thought, of course, one ought to turn up in evening clothes.
But as to evening clothes, why, they'd as soon think of arraying themselves for dinner in full court dress as of putting on an obscurantist swallow-tail.
I allowed him to keep my evening clothes, which is more than a good many---- Lady Maisie.
If Lady Culverin doesn't consider me fit to appear at her dinner-table, I don't see why my evening clothes should be more privileged!
Mr. Galfrid Undershell thinks that the gentleman who is occupying the Verney Chamber has, doubtless by inadvertence, put on Mr. Undershell's evening clothes.
Instead, I donned my evening clothes, and made myself look as presentable as I could.
Letitia put my evening clothes in a dress-suit-case, and, with a heart once more lightened, I departed.
Its purpose is really to save wear on evening clothes, and to avoid some of their discomfort also, because they can not be given hard or careless usage and long survive.
Tourists do not put on evening clothes except in very fashionable centers, such as London, Paris, Monte Carlo or Deauville, and then only if staying at an ultra fashionable hotel.
To a man who can not afford to get two suits of evening clothes, the Tuxedo is of greater importance.
His red but shining eyes hinted that Milt was a clodhopper and no honest wearer of evening clothes.
While he dressed, arrayed himself more impressively than ever in evening clothes, I divided my eyes between him and the pictures on the wall.
Getting back to Newport in evening clothes would be the advertisement of their escapade.
In costume he gets by, but in evening clothes he always suggests the handsome waiter--don't you think?
Evening clothes with a big white shirt and a top-hat were robes of ascension.
The young man was dressed in a suit of evening clothes, and he shook hands with me at his mother's bidding, with the firm grasp of a mortal.
Perhaps she regretted a little that she had caused Mr. Baxter's evening clothes to be so expansively enlarged--for she looked rather regretful.
But if he had known to what undoing this great coup exposed him, it is probable that Mr. Baxter would have appeared at the Emerson Club, that night, in evening clothes.
Search high, search low, no trace of Mr. Baxter's evening clothes were to be found.
An affable introduction to Howard Griffin (also in evening clothes) was poured on Carl like soothing balm.
Now he did all the grubby things which Plato obviated that her sons might rise to a place in society, to eighteen hundred dollars a year and the possession of evening clothes and a knowledge of Greek.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evening clothes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
