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• Dress You Up — Single by Madonna …   Wikipedia

• Dress You Up — Single par Madonna extrait de l’album Like a Virgin Face A Dress You Up Face B Shoo Bee Doo Sortie …   Wikipédia en Français

• Dress for Success (book) — Dress for Success is a 1975 book by John T. Molloy about the effect of clothing on a person s success in business and personal life. It was a bestseller and was followed in 1977 by The Women s Dress for Success Book. [1] Together, the books… …   Wikipedia

• dress — /dres/, n., adj., v., dressed or drest, dressing. n. 1. an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece. 2. clothing; apparel; garb: The dress of the 18th century was colorful. 3. formal attire. 4. a particular… …   Universalium

• power dressing —    A repercussion of the rise in numbers of women entering the workforce, power dressing evolved in the late 1970s as an appropriate form of dress for the office. Power dressers wore sharp, tailored suits with padded shoulders, crisp shirts and… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• Dress shirt — Charvet dress shirt from the 1930s, Norsk Folkemeuseum, Oslo. A shirt, or dress shirt in American English, (also button front, button down, or button up shirt) is a garment with a collar, a full length opening at the front from the collar to the… …   Wikipedia

• Dress You Up — Chartplatzierungen Erklärung der Daten Singles[1] Dress You Up   DE …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Dress parade — Parade Pa*rade , n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v. t.] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• dress correctness — (DRES kuh.rekt.nuss) n. The style of dress that is considered to be appropriate for women who wish to climb the corporate ladder. The style depends on the corporate cultue, but is usually of the dark suit and white blouse variety. Example… …   New words

• power dressing — noun a style of business dress that gives an impression of confidence and efficiency …   Wiktionary