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A woman showed up in khaki dress at a protest.

A woman showed up in khaki dress to a protest.

To sounds better than at, but I am wondering if both are okay and grammatical and if they mean the same thing.

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    Spelling: khaki, as seen in stapmoshun's answer. Also, 'in khaki dress' does not mean the same as 'in a khaki dress'.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Jun 7, 2020 at 16:30
  • This is an interesting question! For no obvious reason, it seems that if we have two adverbial clauses in such contexts (to a protest and in a khaki dress), there's signiuficant pressure for them to appear in that order. Is there perhaps some kind of "Royal order of Adverbs" involved here?
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jun 7, 2020 at 17:26

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It is helpful to split the sentence and rearrange it to figure out what sounds better.

At a protest, a woman showed up in a khaki dress.

It wouldn't sound great if this sentence started with "To".

In your situation, both "to" and "at" sound okay... They do mean the same thing in this example. But the sentence, overall, can be clarified and tidied up, like in my quote above. Furthermore, "a woman showed up in khaki dress" is correct, it just depends on whether her whole ensemble is khaki or just her dress. (Khaki shoes? That's a new one.)

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