Her gown was dowdy and expensive.
Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff.
Valancy was once more seething with rebellion as she walked along, a prim, dowdy little figure in her shabby raincoat and three-year-old hat, splashed occasionally by the mud of a passing motor with its insulting shrieks.
McDonald's was dull, tired, unimaginative and downright dowdy.
But pyjamas, far from being seen as dowdy and scruffy, were once at the very apex of fashion.
In a skinny-celebrity-obsessed world, it has been difficult to overcome the dowdy image of plus size.
