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sack dress

American  

noun

  1. a loose, unbelted dress that hangs straight from the shoulder to the hemline.


Etymology

Origin of sack dress

First recorded in 1955–60

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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

A belt or brooch can give a sack dress a waist, and a spotted white blouse can emerge from a dye bath utterly transformed as a lustrous red Bordeaux.

From New York Times Dec. 12, 2012

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

Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Notice her sack dress over a satin dress, and the white, elaborately made skirt.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

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