pinafore dress

noun

1. a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater Often shortened topinafore US and Canadian namejumper

Example Sentences

Describing her work on a vinyl pinafore dress worn by Lizzo, Becky said: "It took me about two hours to steam all of the layers and Lizzo had it it on for probably less than five minutes."

From BBC

On the night she died, she had dressed up in a frilly blouse and pinafore dress.

From BBC

The scene was memorable not only for the bright red of Dorothy’s shoes, but also for her striking white-and-blue gingham pinafore dress — one of several that the teenage Judy Garland wore in one of the first major movies filmed in Technicolor, in 1939.

From New York Times

The audience seems equal parts dazzled and confused by the combination of lonely desperation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer obsession she presents, in cropped hair and pinafore dress.

From The Guardian

The “Wizard of Oz” outfit is a black and white pinafore dress worn by Judy Garland’s double in the 1939 film and is estimated to fetch between $350,000 and $500,000.

From Reuters