With her face blotchy, she was hardly the image of an Aes Sedai, never mind her worn dress.

The Addershag's worn dress had slipped back from her boots to reveal an iron chain and clamp fastened to her leg.

As the door swung shut with a solid thump, a well-scrubbed shop girl in a worn dress eyed them, taking in their fine clothes with a dubious, narrow-eyed stare.

By and large, the women made any of the men appear humble, parading in worn dresses and twice as much brass jewelry as the men.

A hard-faced woman, in a worn brown dress that hung on her as if she had lost weight, surveyed a field surrounded by a low stone wall, where the hot wind sent sheets of dust marching into the woods.

It seemed to draw the mantle off and drop it on the ground, and then it seemed to be his Little Dorrit in her old, worn dress.

"My wife does not have to borrow clothes, or wear an old, worn dress!"

She gave a start as the worn dress became a gown, red with black-and-gold embroidery around hem and swooping neckline.

A gas street lamp nearby shed enough light to see her worn dress, work-roughened hands, and tired face beneath a bedraggled bonnet.

Her worn dress was factory-woven cloth, but hand-sewn, crude and simple.