The streets are populated by middle-aged women in dowdy, floral dresses carrying garish umbrellas.

When last seen she was carrying five dowdy dresses and heading off to age some shoes with sandpaper and a cheese grater.

Her simple, dowdy, dark blue dress ran from her neck, over her rather thick-boned shape, and all the way to the floor.

Her dark short hair was freshly combed, and the clothes she wore had clearly been hastily put on in place of dowdier dress.

When he had got his balance back, a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement.

A model walks out, wearing a dowdy dress and carrying a beach ball, showing off "swimwear."

Was it the dowdy grey dress that had earned the girl's scorn?

Ms. Andrews, 67, was wearing the dowdy blue-gray dress that she had just worn in the last scene, and her hair was pulled back in a bun.