evening dress vs fancy dress

evening dress

noun
  • formal attire worn for evening social events. 

  • An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown. 

fancy dress

noun
  • Formalwear. 

  • A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else. 

How often have the words evening dress and fancy dress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )