She looked at the man in the white tie and saw that Frank was right.

It is also similar, but not the same, as formal white tie dress.

It shows a figure, almost life size, in white tie and tails.

Maybe it was having to wear the white tie and tails in 80-degree heat.

The man with the white tie had not bided his time.

This white tie look was to be a lasting trademark.

The dress code considered formal in the evening is white tie.

Court dress was replaced by the white tie and tail coat.

I don't think any men wore white tie nor the women ball gowns, but they might as well have.

It is always worn with white tie, bands and hood.

For one thing, no one is cool enough to carry off white tie these days.

The shirt required for white tie is very specific.

White tie is now just a Monday evening tradition.

I was fully rigged up in white tie and tails.

It wasn't so much a white tie as a kind of priest's chain with a cross over the chest.

White tie is the correct, equivalent formal dress for evening social events.

He also used to have a white tie, but it has seems to have disappeared.

"My college glee club gave concerts in white tie," he says.

He, too, was dressed for dinner, in black swallowtails and white tie.

But in top hat, white tie and tails he was champagne to everybody else's beer.

"Black tie" means anything from white tie to a dark suit.

By night, dressed in dark tails and a crisp white tie, his passion is music.

No one would pretend that white ties in the evening are primary and poetical.

A majestic figure in white tie and tails bore down on us.

The dashiki suit is informal and out of place at white tie events.

In those days, one never travelled anywhere without taking full evening dress, even at my age.

She thought briefly of how gorgeous Richard was in full evening dress.

He was wearing full evening dress, with silk hat, scarf and cape.

The apparition of an unknown lady in full evening dress seemed to disturb him.

Crooks had seen the visitor enter clad in full evening dress.

She also feels it would be highly unsuitable not to be painted in full evening dress.

March states the officials during the series "were dressed in full evening dress, from top hats down to white gloves and patent leather shoes."

The 2000-strong audience wore full evening dress.

The 'dress lounge' slowly became more popular for larger events as an alternative to full evening dress in white tie.

In this way Duchamp greeted entering patrons, who were in full evening dress.

Full evening dress, black cloak held by a diamond brooch, diamond-capped cane.

Rather full evening dresses have skirts that show the knees at one side and slant downward to the floor at the other.

Juanna is arrayed in full evening dress, however, and a great star ruby blazes upon her breast.

Sir Stafford Nye was in white tie and full evening dress. '

At ten o'clock Morton put on full evening dress, and took a cab to the Beresfords' mansion.

Busacher arrived first, looking grand and archaic in full evening dress, white tie and tails.

The audience, which filled the cathedral to its capacity of about 2,500, came dressed in everything from jeans and Beatles T-shirts to full evening dress.

Almost always, the dress code would specify 'white tie' or 'full evening dress', with or without decorations depending on if it is a state event.

Incredibly vain, Mapleton had asked for permission to wear full evening dress in Court because he thought it would impress the jury.

He uprose in full evening dress, And with senseless grimaces endeavored to say What his tongue could no longer express.

The Duchess Tremontaine stood framed by the little doorway, in full evening dress, holding up an inelegant iron lantern.

Of course Mamie was delighted to give permission, so you can imagine her horror when 'the prince' turned out to be a monkey, in full evening dress."

He stood there in full evening dress, the shiny black rim of his topper slicing across the bulge of his massive brow.

Nobody blows into La Caravelle anymore in full evening dress, trailing diamonds, furs and bons mots.

There were languid couples in full evening dress, Bohemians in corduroy trousers, stout gentlemen in business suits.