She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel, to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called 'Mary'; after a while, he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys, one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves.

Of these, the midday dance is perhaps the best known: it was traditionally the dance of the gentry in the town, and today the men wear top hats and tails while the women dance in their finest frocks.

For hours she'd sat at the window, dressed in a "fine blue frock," watching the modern city.

With trumpeting elephants, monkeys crashing through the trees, peacocks in their finest frocks and cunning leopards sliding like shadows through the undergrowth, Yala National Park (also known as Ruhunu) is The Jungle Book brought to glorious life.

After that, I went at once to my closets and dressed for the ball, putting on my finest crimson frock coat and all the requisite lace, and then the large curly wig which was the fashion then.

Many of the men were in evening clothes; the women wore their finest frocks and jewels.