She could not quite believe it was herself in that formal costume.

At the door you were met by a solemn person in XXth Century formal costume who asked: "Frab or Fortune, sir?"

Ten minutes to change from house clothes to the formal costume appropriate for one delm's official call upon another.

This was a decision all 18th century self-portraitists needed to make, although many painted themselves in both formal and informal costume in different paintings.

Despite her age, the old woman bore up well under the weight of the formal costume and the heat.

It has been traced by some to Byzantium, and by others to the formal costumes of the Ottoman Empire's elite.

It's really a village bullfight without a barricaded ring, without picadors, and without formal costumes.

The Tamborito is performed in formal costumes in front of large, interactive crowds that form a large circle around the performers.

At all times Duke Luhalcx, his family and their associates wore formal costumes of great sophistication, which were changed several times daily, according to occasion.

Several of the women were drifting off in pairs to help one another out of their formal costumes and coiffures.