Wrung-out rainwater spilled down cold on the flouncy "ladylike" clothes Mother made me wear.

The Swiss designer manages to pull off ladylike clothes that even a bad girl could love.

A year ago they were all taken with ladylike clothes.

In these ladylike clothes you've put me into?

Previous seasons were full of frilly, delicate, ladylike clothes best complemented by pink-hued cosmetics and a thinner hyper-groomed brow.

Because, as he said, "How much more glammy could you go after all those ladylike clothes?"

"Designers were into ladylike, put-together clothes while the accessories people were still doing bohemian."

It is to couture's advantage that in the midst of the revival, ladylike clothes look fresh again and almost avant-garde.

The very next day, Julia will buy some ladylike clothes and develop a new consciousness about forks.

European designers bid farewell to ladylike clothes, and not with any mist in their eyes.