What is "underdress"

Usage examples of "underdress".

The underdress had tight-fitting wrist length sleeves, while the overdress had full sleeves reaching her elbows.

I felt a little underdressed, wearing only a suit while most men wore tuxedoes, but the feeling soon passed.

Both were looking very much the tourist, clean-shaven, clean hair, not overdressed as businessmen, not underdressed as slobs.

It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses.

In front of the eating house known as the Final Opportunity, a well-built, scantily dressed woman posed against a painted board while the knives thrown by her equally underdressed partner flashed and thudded all around her.

Dressed in a fine calf-length tunic worn over a linen underdress, she looked quite striking with her bountiful dark hair caught back in a scarf and her cheeks rosy with sun.

She knew it made her distinctly underdressed for the opulent senate, but she also hoped it would make some of those present harken back to the days when battle dress was the order of the day and decisions had to be made quickly.

Stepping in and seeing the customers, Hebo felt distinctly underdressed.

And yet Marcala insisted that she pack at least six overdresses and a dozen underdresses.

Her cap and superhumeral, the wide formal collar, matched the underdress and were trimmed in seed pearls and amber drops.

He underdresses, for the possession of more than two suits might suggest affluence and a desire to seem glorious in the eyes of men.