Then why did I feel like a teenager being dressed down by her mother?

We tend to dress down out here in the country.

Not so different, come to think about it, from the students he is dressing down.

It wasn't the first time I was dressed down by a fashion professional.

You must have dressed down your students once too often.

Woods, dressed down for a day, could have said the same of himself.

I'll tell Mark to dress down a bit and it'll be fine.

He made out a case for dressing down rather than up.

In an age of dressing down, some women continue to dress up.

But on any given Friday, "a lot of people in here are dressed down."