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Dressed to the nines What does Dressed to the nines mean?
Dressed flamboyantly, dressed well.
New years eve is the one day of the year when people like to go out dressed to the nines. Common lore has it that a tailor making a high quality suit uses more fabric. The best suits are made from nine yards of fabric. This may seem like a lot but a proper suit does indeed take nine yards of fabric. This is because a good suit has all the fabric cut in the same direction with the warp, or long strands of thread, parallel with the vertical line of the suit. This causes a great amount of waste in suit making, but if you want to go "dressed to the nines", you must pay for such waste.
dressed to the nines What does dressed to the nines mean?
to be dressed in one's best clothes
The woman at the concert was dressed to the nines.
dressed to the nines What does dressed to the nines mean?
to be dressed in one's best clothes
The woman at the concert was dressed to the nines.