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n. A long close-fitting dress or skirt, often with a slit or pleat on one side. It is longer than a cocktail dress and falls around the knees or lower thighs.
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In fashion, a sheath dress is a type of dress designed to fit close to the body, relatively unadorned.
Unlike many cocktail dresses and the longer ballroom dress, a sheath dress typically falls around the knees or lower thighs.
First Lady Michelle Obama, First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are all known for their wearing of sheath dresses.
Some brands well known for their sheath dresses include Ralph Lauren, Prada, and Marc Jacobs.
Usage examples of "sheath dress".
The woman came out from under the wheel, leggy, slender, tall, nimble, in light-blue linen sheath dress to midthigh, sleeveless.
She smiled and handed him a cup of pomegranate juice, a slender brown girl in a long sheath dress banded in bright colors.
Today she was in another sheath dress, this one ranging from red to yellow-gold depending on the angle from which one viewed the material, and how it hung upon her.
I looked at her, she so frightened, in the cape and sheath dress, her feet drawn up beneath her on the leather of the seat of the cab.
I remembered her from the restaurant, so long ago, in the candelight, in the svelte, off-the-shoulder, white-sheath dress, so chic and lovely, carrying the tiny, silver-beaded purse.
She had worn an off-the-shoulder, svelte, white satin sheath dress.
She was very tall and very slender, golden-skinned and clad in a sheath dress of red silk that flowed like water.
The last thing she remembered was the soft face of a woman, a very beautiful woman, dressed in a red Oriental-silk sheath dress slit up the sides, tearing Julia's blouse from her shoulders.
While Sue, bubbling and pretty in her rose sheath dress, had mixed the high-balls, Abrahams had sunk into a corner of the sofa to review one last time the legal language of a contract he had almost committed to memory during these past months.
She looked uncommonly sharp in her red sheath dress and high heels, with a string of pearls around her neck.
A thigh-high sheath dress, which hugged her body, with a square neckline and cap sleeves.