sack dress

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sack dress

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There’s no way out of it, so you needn’t think to try words, nor blarney, nor nothing else with me, I have a sack dress each for you, and what you have on is mine.

From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by Meade, L. T.