out-dress

Fittingly, the first issue of Mensweek features a cover story dubbed "Is Men's Wear Back?" in which a behavioral-finance expert contends the recession has ignited a competitive fire among men to out-dress their peers.

Media Business Shorts 2011

At that time, it wasn't necessary to out-dress them on the stage.

CNN Transcript May 20, 2001 2001

I 'm dead sick of parties, and flirtations, trying to out-dress my neighbors, and going the same round year after year, like a squirrel in a cage.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

The other ladies seemed to have vied with each other to out-dress one another, surpassing even their gay attire at their winter receptions.

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

"I don't want to look as though I was trying to out-dress anyone."

Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall R. G. [Illustrator] Vosburgh 1895

Did not see a pretty woman in Ark., though they out-dress N.C. women.

Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Laura Caroline Phillips, May 26, 1869 1869

To cheat the professors by ingenious stratagems, and to out-dress her companions, seemed the sum total of the girl's aspirations; and gradually, in lieu of the indifference she evinced toward her room-mate, a positive hatred made itself apparent in numberless trifles.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

About once a year, I go to an event where I'm completely outshone by people who out-dress me and out-accessorize me.

The Jewelry Weblog 2010

About once a year, I go to an event where I'm completely outshone by people who out-dress me and out-accessorize me.

The Jewelry Weblog 2010

The 60-year-old grew up in London when much of it was stubbornly ungentrified, and young working-class men were only beginning to have enough spare cash to buy records and out-dress their betters.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010