English

Alternative forms

• formal wear

Noun

formalwear ‎(uncountable)

1. Clothing suited to formal occasions
   • 2007 April 10, Claudia La Rocco, “Austerity Meets Agitation While the Night City Glitters”, in New York Times:

     With their hair half up, and dressed demurely in black formalwear, they seemed like lost girls and conveyed little beyond a vague sense of urgency and dread; sure technicians all, they are not yet artists able to make their lashing limbs and inscrutable gestures mean something.

See also

• formalwear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia