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dress informally and casually
On Fridays, employees can underdress -
dress without sufficient warmth
She was underdressed for the hiking trip and suffered hypothermia
How To Use underdress In A Sentence
- I wrapped his toes in gauze torn from my underdress, and tucked one foot under my arm and held the other in my left hand, and gave him heat. Wildfire
- As it was an ugly day, I didn't wear a sport coat and felt a bit underdressed, even though I had on slacks, an oxford shirt and sweater vest.
- Its left panel frames a standing portrait of Serena, her hair arranged in a thick roll around her head, her person adorned in the high-necked voluminous tunic layered over a tighter-fitting underdress that had become the prevailing fashion for women of late antiquity. Caesars’ Wives
- I was wearing a pair of chinos and a (rather stylish) company polo shirt, but I felt quite underdressed as soon as I walked in the door.
- There is indeed such a thing as overdressing, but that is when one ignores the conventions of the situation: the equivalent of ignoring the conventions by underdressing. Miss Manners
- I'm also wondering if that was possibly done as an alternative to wearing an apron, since with the hem folded up like that any dirt would then fall on the underside of the dress or on the petticoat/underdress, and then once the chore was finished the hem could be let down again and the dirt is not visible. Modest Active Wear
- Overdressing can make you look more like a rube than underdressing does. Ask MetaFilter
- Everyone else was in smart suits and I felt a bit underdressed.
- It all came as something of a shock after the austerity of Orion Farm, and in her jacket and trousers, Helena felt grossly underdressed. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- We insist on working at the most sexy, comfortable, fashionable, and charming underdress in order to let you feel being favored at every moment.