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He made out a case for dressing down rather than up.
Then she got up and went over to where she'd put her dress down, on the bed.
Not so different, come to think about it, from the students he is dressing down.
We tend to dress down out here in the country.
"Once we had George a little too dressed down in street clothes."
Woods, dressed down for a day, could have said the same of himself.
His father then appeared to give him a dressing down.
I'll tell Mark to dress down a bit and it'll be fine.
She was pulling the dress down with one of her hands.
"The answer is to dress down and look concerned," he said.
In an age of dressing down, some women continue to dress up.
But on any given Friday, "a lot of people in here are dressed down."
Then why did I feel like a teenager being dressed down by her mother?
She pushed her dress down before he had a chance to see it.
"We will have to take the top of your dress down.
"You must have dressed down your students once too often.
She stood up and pulled the dress down around her ankles.
But if a young woman dresses down she's fair game for criticism, she said.
Nobody remembers seeing a girl in a red dress down here during the week.
Fewer dressed down, as if they had just washed the car.
But neither could they be accused of, well, dressing down.
Unfortunately, it's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously.
I got a right dressing down that day, let me tell you."
One dressed down for sweaty hours on the gas lines.
When his faith deserted him, he was just himself: all dressed down with no place to go.