For a trial run, any old gown will do.

As she says this, she's already tugging at the old gown, pulling it over her head.

"The older gowns are usually a little snug across the back," she said.

For this evening's dinner party she'd squeezed herself into an old black gown.

It was considered proper amongst students to wear an old and worn gown.

She met him in the hallway, in an old blue dressing gown.

A dark little creature in an old yellow gown would never stand a chance of catching the Prince's eye.

He wears the same dressing gown, now old and faded.

She was wearing those old gowns that Joan, poor child, wears now.

But the car, in old gown or new, is a class act and it continues to deserve its bouquets.