He ignored these comments and showed the scene in modern dress.
Scene: a small opera house of 18th-century scale, in modern industrial dress.
The institute adopted a more simple modern dress and blue veil on 20 September 1964.
His characters may wear modern dress, but they're still caught up in the moral and religious issues of an earlier time.
Wearing modern dress, the leading characters are often part of a group.
But the good old days appear to be coming back now, in fancy - and costly - modern dress.
Has to be modern dress obviously, and ideally an elderly character.
If she hadn't been wearing modern dress, he would have said it was an old painting.
"We are both interested in a sensuousness of modern dress."
The male have adopted the modern dress of international style.