baby-doll dress

English

A woman in a school uniform-style baby-doll dress

Alternative forms

• baby doll dress, babydoll dress

Noun

baby-doll dress (plural baby-doll dresses)

1. (fashion) A style of short, A-line dress with a low or absent waist, characteristic of those worn by young girls or dolls.
   • 1995, Neal Karlen, Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band, page 6:

     Like Kat, one of the women had bleached-blond hair and was wearing a baby-doll dress.

   • 1997, Anna Louise Golden, The Spice Girls: The Uncensored Story Behind Pop's Biggest Phenomenon, page 120:

     With her very girl style of short skirts, baby-doll dresses, and hair either pulled crammed into pigtails or combed with straight bangs, she certainly looked the part of "Baby Spice."

   • 2005, Dale Hrabi, Secrets of Celebrity Style: A Crash Course in Dressing Like the Stars, page 178 (approx.):

     You'll never catch thirtysomething Jennifer Garner in a baby-doll dress that would flatter only a baby or a doll.

   • 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     Sabrina [Carpenter], certified arbiter of the coquette aesthetic, has made babydoll dresses and platform heels so much her signature silhouette that you may not even immediately notice it.