Traditionally, wearing plain dress was an answer to a number of Friends' concerns.

Miss Chestnut was another big woman, also in a plain black dress.

She is a lean woman of 57 in a plain dress but with a warm smile.

The girl in the plain dress stares at the floor.

It was here that she played the simple country girl in a straw hat and plain dress with her friends.

She was wearing a plain blue dress like a smock.

The women might be nuns or members of some female community, dressed as they are in plain black dresses with their hair pulled back.

It had been a very warm day, and for the first time she had left off her plain black dress.

Her fine gown has changed back into a plain dress.

A joker woman in a plain blue dress smiled at them.