reform dress
reform dress noun: women's clothing that avoided corseting and other constraints in favour of a looser, more comfortable fit, especially as part of a movement to make women's clothing more healthy and rational; an individual dress made according to such principles.
Noun
reform dress (plural reform dresses)
- Women's clothing that avoided corseting and other constraints in favour of a looser, more comfortable fit, especially as part of a movement to make women's clothing more healthy and rational; an individual dress made according to such principles.
- We cannot see wherein the reform dress we recommend is unbecoming.1871, The Health Reformer, volumes 6-7, page 156
- Many women had a horror of reform dress, regarding it as nothing more than a flabby, badly fitting bag made of cheap material and depriving the wearer of the very last vestige of gracefulness and elegance.2003, Patricia Anne Cunningham, Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920, page 100
Forms of reform dress
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Questions about reform dress
- What does reform dress mean?
- Reform dress means women's clothing that avoided corseting and other constraints in favour of a looser, more comfortable fit, especially as part of a movement to make women's clothing more healthy and rational; an individual dress made according to such principles.
- What part of speech is reform dress?
- Reform dress is a noun.
- What is the plural of reform dress?
- The plural of reform dress is reform dresses.
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