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Street clothes

noun

Ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.).

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"Street clothes" Quotes from Famous Books

... should say," Stanton said. "It all depends on the equipment an individual has. A man who rushes into a burning building to save a life, wearing nothing but street clothes, has courage. A man who does the same thing when he's wearing a nullotherm suit is an unknown quantity. There is no way of knowing, from that action alone, whether he ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... support both a personal and an intellectual passion. Sitting behind her, he watched her with perplexed admiration, shading his eyes with his hand. In her dinner dress she looked even younger than in street clothes, and, for all her composure and self-sufficiency, she seemed to him strangely alert and vibrating, as if in her, too, there were something never altogether at rest. He felt that he knew pretty much what ...

— Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ • Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes

... game had advanced to the sixth innings, with the score still one all, he found the people almost unresponsive to his appeals, and, returning to Walter's little store under the grand stand, changed into his street clothes and rushed back to see the finish of the game, his first venture as a pedlar having netted him the ...

— William Adolphus Turnpike • William Banks

... Hampton just at twilight and made their way at once to their armory—as they called it—which was situated In a large room above the bank of which Rob's father was president. At one side of it was a row of lockers and each lad—after changing his uniform for street clothes—placed his "regimentals" ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson

... and the great religions still deem it necessary for their leaders to be continent. And the absurdities of modesty, a modified sex impulse, have made it immoral for a woman to show her leg above the calf while in her street clothes,[1] though she may wear a bathing ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... and Archey noted that they were still wearing their street clothes. "Looks bad," he ...

— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston

Words linked to "Street clothes" : vesture, plural, plural form, habiliment, wearable, wear, clothing, article of clothing