sack dress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sack dress
First recorded in 1955–60
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One entitled “Performance,” meant to be evergreen, and defined by classic couture tropes — the sack dress, the cold-shoulder top — remixed and regurgitated in the everyday uniform of his borderless land.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Always seemingly sweat-resistant, Keaton wore her signature black fedora with a gold-flecked Comme des Garcons sack dress and black turtleneck sweater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
She also had smart-looking wool trousers and a little cap-sleeve sack dress that other designers might worry was too plain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2011
Considered by many to be the most influential designer of the postwar years, Balenciaga introduced the sack dress, the semifitted suit and the seven-eighths coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notice her sack dress over a satin dress, and the white, elaborately made skirt.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
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