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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Starbucks is facing multiple employee complaints and lawsuits across the United States over the rollout of a new dress code and the expenses associated with it. John Toher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025 Erewhon’s signature SoCal casualness has been traded for Ivy League formality, complete with a dress code warning. Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2025 People adjusted their pava hats and clip-on flor de maga flowers, Puerto Rican symbols that made up the evening’s implicit dress code. Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025 Instead, the bride felt her original dress code message was enough. Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 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 22 Sep. 2025.

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