fashion parade

fashion parade (plural fashion parades)

1. An event at which a series of models display clothing in front of an audience.

   Synonym: fashion show

   • 1915, Bernarr Macfadden, Vitality Supreme, New York: Physical Culture Publishing, Chapter 9, p. 105,

     Now to secure the real benefits that come from walking there should be no laziness about it. Do not walk as though you were on a fashion parade.

   • 1981, Sumner Locke Elliott, Signs of Life, New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, p. 96,

     “Miss Green, I wonder, if you’ve time on your hands now, could you be coaxed into being in a fashion parade of which I’m chairman, at the Sherry Netherland next week? Jean de Perrault’s spring line.”

   • 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Section 2, Chapter 2, p. 138,

     One [line] was made up of people in custom suits, standing stiffly and solemnly as if at a fashion parade; it reached all the way to the door.