evening-gowned

The improved theater and the evening-gowned women in the audience with the drawing-room effect of toilets, adds a luster to the social season of plays and operas.

1895 November 3, “Society Gossip”, in The Morning News, Savannah, Ga., page 12

The splendid architecture of our historic building, its galleries receding and allowing full view of open boxes where rows of evening-gowned women, their arms and shoulders bare, are seen resplendent in the narrow framing of crimson velvet that partitions off the seats, offers a sight not equaled by the Metropolitan Opera of New York City, where the many tiers rise in a straight line, overtopping each other and hence obstructing the view beneath.

1900 July 1, “Society Notes”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXVII, number 15,726, New Orleans, La., part second, page 1

I followed the theologian, and while waiting to be introduced, I looked over the fashionable assemblage of fine-look ing men, who knew how to wear a dress suit without embarrassment, and the beautiful, evening-gowned ladies, and I felt honored in being among those present.

1919 September 4, Elmer Rigdon, “Pangs of Prohibition Are Felt by Newspaper Writers: One Who Loses His Job Because of Lack of Drunkards Waxes Reminiscent of the Days Gone By, Recalling Many Happy Memories”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 52, number 14, New York, N.Y., section “Often Called Upon as an Authority”, page 9