dress code

noun

: formally or socially imposed standards of dress

Examples of dress code in a Sentence

The school imposed a new dress code that forbids students from wearing jeans.
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Any to-be-wed can play around with this dress code to add some luck to their wedding day. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2025 The rules include abstaining from substances that are already forbidden by the LDS Church, practicing chastity, forgoing the use of profanity and following a dress code that prohibits men from wearing beards or goatees and requires skirts to be no shorter than knee-length. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2025 Advertisement The 2022 protests initially erupted in response to the systematic repression of women through compulsory hijab, laws enforcing a conservative Islamic dress code. Narges Mohammadi, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025 Abercrombie & Fitch’s wedding shop Just a year after launching, Abercrombie’s wedding edit has become one of our favorite places to find event-ready attire to fit any dress code. Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dress code

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dress code was in 1961

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“Dress code.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dress%20code. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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