sundress
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Every spring, I get the urge to buy something new: a sundress, a pretty blouse or something hopeful after a long, drab winter.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
Lindhome said she wore a white sundress that she bought from the Macy’s at the Glendale Galleria and Armisen wore a suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
“I bought three new pairs of jeans. I wore a sundress for the first time in a decade,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 16, 2023
The black and white photo showed a woman in a striped sundress and headscarf holding a little boy in her lap.
From Fox News ● Dec. 12, 2021
Ethan’s in gym shorts and a Milton High T-shirt, and Jessie’s in a sundress, and they’re both carrying duffel bags.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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Many wore sundresses, cowboy boots, leopard print and, to comply with tight security, plastic see-through purses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Which was, in fact, already set up across the room—it was just covered in sundresses and tops.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
Although this week’s hot weather may have prompted an early appearance of flip-flops and sundresses, forecasters warn this stretch of heat isn’t indicative of an early start to springtime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
"Oh really? Well, I'm packing all my sundresses now," she laughs down the phone from her home in Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
She stops by another vendor selling sundresses for seven dollars each.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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