Dresses For The Opera

Please tell us where you found these sentences. ”Clean up good” has nothing to do with cleaning a house or being diligent. It means the person is surprisingly attractive when he or she gets cleaned up, dresses nicely, etc.

A man orders 20 dresses that he will sell in his shop, but some of the dresses are not of the colours that he ordered: He says "A number of the dresses are wrong."

Bimbo means she dresses in a sexy manner: i.e. tight clothing, high heels, lots of cleavage, etc. I cannot think of any specific reference that translates well. Women like this who are married are sometimes called "trophy wives" (especially if they are much younger than their husbands).

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You are more likely to encounter an eager chumminess assuring you that you don’t have to dress any which way. (Getty Images) In my imagination, the opera is the last bastion of a certain kind of ...

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Newsweek: Woman Honors Grandma by Wearing Her Dress to Opera 60 Years Later

Woman Honors Grandma by Wearing Her Dress to Opera 60 Years Later

The Washington Post: Miss Manners: How do we dress for the opera?

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Dear Miss Manners: How does one dress for the opera nowadays? It’s our first time at the Met, and I got good seats for my wife and myself. In London, I wore a suit, and then after the pandemic, I wore ...

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The Columbian: Does dressing up improve opera experience? Some theaters toss out dress codes, other traditions

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