dressiness

They finished sweaters, then organized pocketbooks by color and dressiness.

If ever there was dressiness it was here.

The prestige of the saddle, and its dressiness, is not required in local errands or short jaunts.

This was particularly so in the 17th century when some Puritans in eastern England looked down on any form of lacy dressiness.

In the perpetual 'Dunkirk of the spirit' of the immediate postwar period, 'dressiness was confined largely to homosexuals.

("A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant")

Derby shoe: the laces are tied to two pieces of leather independently attached to the vamp; also known as "open lacing" and is a step down in dressiness.

It was bold of Mr. Ford to propose so much beribboned glamour for day, though dressiness was a theme of the fall 2002 collections (which ended today).

By the 17th century, this lacework had become seen as old-fashioned, or cheap and of poor quality, at a time when the Puritans of eastern England looked down on any form of lacy dressiness.

By 1953, the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location: the working-class boys and girls who, congregating around various London centres, had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style, the Edwardian Look.