Though she's lovely, she's dressed in dowdy clothes.

Inside, Mr. Glover, decked in dowdy clothes and gray hair, was filming a scene.

"I'm tired of the cold and dowdy clothes."

A change of make-up, have your hair cut short and change the colour, dowdy clothes.

Her loose, almost dowdy clothes hid a fine body.

She doesn't fool me with her ridiculous dowdy clothes.

I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crêpe.

She was no longer wearing the dowdy, ill-fitting clothes and plain shoes of Paris.

She stood before him in her dowdy clothes, pushing the hair out of her eyes.

"Dad dressing," as choosing deliberately dowdy clothes is called in Britain, started as a club fad.