In a day of almost universal dowdiness, she knew how to wear her clothes-although she did not use that knowledge to any prodigal extent; clothes, in balmy prehistoric Greece, being used for adornment rather than as coverings.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
Then all at once she came upon Lydia Orr, in her simple white dress, made with an elegant simplicity which convicted every girl in the room of dowdiness.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
Why, nothing-self-respect, dowdiness, and peace.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers