modishness
- n elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- Newlyweds of the mid-'60s, they are stranded a decade later on shoals of outworn modishness.
- Clothes rationing makes modishness difficult, hand-me-down costumes inevitable.
- But for the 80,000 or so who crowded in and around the ancient castle of Caernarvon, the mixture of Welsh informality and London modishness that marked the occasion made it a kind .