11 examples of décolleté in sentences

Despite the traditional belief that a décolleté corsage is a tyrannous necessity of evening dress, a woman not graciously endowed with a beautifully modelled throat and shoulders may, with perfect propriety, conceal her infelicitous lines from the derisive gaze of a critical public.

The unsightly lines of the shoulders are covered, and just enough individual robustness is disclosed to suggest with becoming propriety the conventional décolleté corsage.

Those who do not approve of the décolleté style of dress, or whose ungraceful proportions might well be entirely concealed, can wear with appropriateness and benefit the corsage shown in No. 64.

" "Most of Jennie Brice's décolleté gowns were cut to a point.

The men were in white evening suits, and the women and girls in décolleté gowns, white and colored.

I have not seen it, but I hear that it is really too décolleté.

The first shows a young woman seated, wearing a décolleté gown, while a mischievous companion steals up behind and tickles her neck with a twig.

I have not seen it, but I hear that it is really too décolleté.

Involuntarily Lord Findon glanced across the room, at the décolleté shoulders and buxom good looks of his wife.

One one occasion a most intelligent man said to me, "I am told that in America the ladies always wear décolleté costumes at dinners, and the men are always in night-dress.

A married lady who dances only a few quadrilles may wear a décolleté silk dress with propriety.

11 examples of  décolleté  in sentences