0 clothes worn for formal occasions in the evening. -- festantrekk, gallaantrekk
1 a formal dress worn by a woman in the evening. -- aftenkjole
Women's evening dress included obligatory trains and tiaras or feathers in their hair (or both).
The shirt was to be as worn with evening dress, soft front with stiff white cuffs.
Black evening dress and formal dress in general were worn less and less.
Black and white also often represent formality and seriousness, as in the costumes of judges and priests, business suits, of formal evening dress.
By the 1920s it began to mimic women's satin single-layer evening dress of the period.
They came in resplendent in evening dress.
They may be in evening dress, for example, and there is sometimes a rather narrow space between two lines of traffic when cars are parked on each side.
The people do not change into evening dress.