dress shirt
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dress shirt
noun dress shirts · dress-shirt
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A collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.
Similar: button-down, button-up, polo, work shirt
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A formal, eveningwear shirt with buttons, often worn as part of a black tie or white tie dress code.
First off, you certainly wouldn’t want to rock up to work sporting a dress shirt. Not unless you’re the Queen’s butler or one of those gents who holds the doors open at posh department stores. No, a dress shirt is to be worn exclusively as part of a black-tie outfit, most commonly a tuxedo.
Similar: evening shirt, tuxedo shirt
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