wear
‘wear’
When you wear something, you have it on your body. You can wear clothes, shoes, a hat, gloves, jewellery, make-up, or a pair of glasses. The past tense of wear is wore. The -ed participle is worn.
She was small and wore glasses.
I've worn this dress so many times.
‘dressed in’
You can also say that someone is dressed in particular clothes.
All the men were dressed in grey suits.
However, don't say that someone is ‘dressed in’ a hat, shoes, gloves, jewellery, make-up, or glasses.
➜ See dress
‘in’
You can use in to mention the clothes, shoes, hat, or gloves someone is wearing. In usually goes immediately after a noun phrase.
With her was a small girl in a blue T-shirt.
The bar was full of men in baseball caps.
You can use in as part of an adverbial phrase.
I saw you walking along in your old jeans.
She stood at the top of the stairs in her pyjamas.
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In is sometimes used to mean ‘wearing only’. For example, ‘George was in his underpants’ means ‘George was wearing only his underpants’.
He was standing in the hall in his swimming shorts.
She opened the door in her dressing gown.