cocktail length
English
Noun
cocktail length (uncountable)
- The length of a cocktail dress, typically around knee length.
- 1956, Billboard (page 92)
- Esther Groscurth was striking in a Grecian wrapped bodice of red crepe with nylon accordion-pleated skirt of cocktail length.
- 2009, Jill Martin, Pierre A. Lehu, Fashion For Dummies (page 194)
- If you wear a dress, cocktail length is the way to go (obviously). That means that your dress should hit your leg right below the knee, as shown in Figure 11-1.
- 1956, Billboard (page 92)