a dress
Examples
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Death is like a dress that, at some point or another, everyone has to wear.