baby-doll dress
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[edit]baby-doll dress (plural baby-doll dresses)
- (fashion) A style of short, A-line dress with a low or absent waist, characteristic of those worn by young girls or dolls.
- 1995, Neal Karlen, Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band, page 6:
- Like Kat, one of the women had bleached-blond hair and was wearing a baby-doll dress.
- 1997, Anna Louise Golden, The Spice Girls: The Uncensored Story Behind Pop's Biggest Phenomenon, page 120:
- With her very girl style of short skirts, baby-doll dresses, and hair either pulled crammed into pigtails or combed with straight bangs, she certainly looked the part of "Baby Spice."
- 2005, Dale Hrabi, Secrets of Celebrity Style: A Crash Course in Dressing Like the Stars, page 178 (approx.):
- You'll never catch thirtysomething Jennifer Garner in a baby-doll dress that would flatter only a baby or a doll.
- 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan[1]:
- Sabrina [Carpenter], certified arbiter of the coquette aesthetic, has made babydoll dresses and platform heels so much her signature silhouette that you may not even immediately notice it.