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501 blues ( Levi's
Jeans
advertising slogan )
A brick in your
hat
A feather in your
cap
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Adjust your
dress
All fur
coat
and no
knickers
All
hat
and no cattle
All mouth and
trousers
All over him like a cheap
suit
All talk and no
trousers
America lives in Dacron ( Dacron Fabric advertising slogan )
Ants in his
pants
Ants
pants
As black as the Earl of Hell's
waistcoat
As black as your
hat
As full as a fat lady's
sock
Asbestos
knickers
At a price to
suit
your pocket
At the drop of a
hat
Bad
hat
Bail
jumper
Beat the
pants
off
Below the
belt
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Belt
and
braces
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Belt
it out
Belt
up
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Best bib and tucker
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Bit of
skirt
Black
tie
Bless his/her cotton
socks
Bling bling
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Blow my
skirt
up
Boob tube
Bore the
pants
off someone
Bra
burner
Brown
trousers
Bunny
suit
( Canadian military slang term for a cbrn ( chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear ) )
Burn your
bra
By the seat of your
pants
Cap
and trade ( A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment )
Cap
in hand
Caught with your
pants
down
Caught with your
trousers
down
Cement
overcoat
Change into your brown
trousers
Chapel
hat
pegs
Chicago
overcoat
Click it or ticket ( United States seat
belt
law advertising slogan )
Cloak
and dagger
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Cloth
ears
Clothes maketh the man
Coat
of many colours
Cut from the same
cloth
Cut your
coat
to
suit
your
cloth
Dance your
socks
off
Data
cap
Dead Men Don't
Wear
Plaid ( Steve Martin movie )
Dicky Dirt ( Cockney rhyming slang for
shirt
)
Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? ( Warner's Body
Bra
advertising slogan )
Doff one's
cap
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Don't get your
knickers
in a knot
Don't get your
knickers
in a twist
Done up like a Christmas tree
Double denim ( denim
jeans
worn with a denim
shirt
or
jacket
)
Draw a
veil
over
Dress
code
Dress
down
Dress
down Friday
Dress
for success
Dress
up
Dress
up Thursday
Drop your
pants
Dust your
pants
Eat my
shorts
( A catchphrase from The Simpsons )
Fancy
pants
Fashion victim
Feather in your
cap
Fine feathered
Fly by the seat of your
pants
Follow
suit
For successful living ( Diesel advertising slogan )
For want of a nail the
shoe
was lost ( line from nursery rhyme )
For want of a nail the
shoe
was lost; for want of a
shoe
the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
Frock
horror
Frock
up
Full Metal
Jacket
( Stanley Kubrick movie )
Gear
up for
Get into
gear
Get into someone's
pants
Get your ass into
gear
Get your
coat
Get your coat, you've pulled
Glad rags
Go
cap
in hand
Golden
Sombrero
( A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game )
Hair
shirt
Handle with kid
gloves
Hang on to your
shirt
tails
Hang up your
hat
Hang your
hat
on
Hat
in hand
Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? ( Levi's
Jeans
advertising slogan )
High visibility
jacket
( reflective
coat
worn to be easily seen )
Home is wherever I lay my
hat
Hustle and
bustle
I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform
bra
( Maidenform advertising slogan )
I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform
bra
( Maidenform advertising slogan )
I grow old, I grow old, I shall
wear
the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled ( from a poem by Eliot )
I
wear
my sunglasses at night
I will
wear
my heart upon my sleeve
I'll eat my
hat
I'll take my
hat
off to you
I'm Too Sexy For My
Shirt
( Right Said Fred song )
If the
cap
fits,
wear
it
If the
shoe
fits,
wear
it
If you want to get ahead, get a
hat
(
Hat
Council advertising slogan )
In high cotton
In
uniform
In your birthday
suit
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to
wear
it
Jersey
Jim ( Nickname of Jim McMahon )
Jersey
Joe ( Nickname of Joe Walcott )
Joey
Pants
( Nickname of actor Joe Pantoliano )
Keep it under your
hat
Keep your
hat
on
Keep your
pants
on
Keep your
shirt
on
Knock it into a cocked
hat
Knock your
socks
off
Legs like tree
trunks
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box
Hat
( Bob Dylan song )
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
Liar liar:
pants
on fire
Lift the
veil
Lit up like a Christmas tree
Little black
dress
Little gentleman in the velvet
coat
Look your best while you
wear
our least ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
Lose your
shirt
Man In The Long Black
Coat
( Bob Dylan song )
Man of the
cloth
Material
Girl ( Madonna song )
My bottoms are tops ( Gloria Vanderbilt
Jeans
advertising slogan )
My hat!
No
Jacket
Required ( Phil Collins album )
Not a stitch on
Not exactly blowing my
skirt
up
Nothing comes between me and my Calvin Klein
jeans
( Calvin Klein advertising slogan )
Off the peg
Old
hat
Old school
tie
One two buckle my
shoe
( line from nursery rhyme )
Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just
dress
that way ( Mohara Suits advertising slogan )
Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER ( Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan )
Open the
kimono
Out of the
hat
Over the shoulder boulder holder ( jokey term for
bra
)
Pass the
hat
Penguin
suit
Pile of
pants
Platinum
Sombrero
( A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game )
Pop goes the weasel
Power is
Macintosh
( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Pull the rabbit out of the
hat
Pull your
socks
up
Put a
sock
in it
Put on the wooden
overcoat
Put on your thinking
cap
Put the tin
hat
on it
Put your brain in
gear
Put your
shirt
on
Quality never goes out of style ( Levi's
Jeans
advertising slogan )
Quick change artist
Rag trade
Rally
cap
( A baseball expression denoting a
cap
is a worn inside out or backwards )
Raspberry
Beret
( Prince song )
Red and green should never be seen
Robin Hood - Men In
Tights
( Mel Brooks movie )
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same
suit
)
San Francisco ( Be Sure to
Wear
Flowers in Your Hair ) ( Scott McKenzie song )
Set your
cap
at
Shift into high
gear
Skirt
chaser
Smarty
pants
Sock
it to me ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Sock
puppet marketing
Source
material
Stuffed
shirt
Suit
up
Suit
you, sir ( A catchphrase from The Fast Show )
Suit
yourself
Sunday best
Take it up a
gear
Take the
shirt
off your back
Take the
veil
Take your
hat
off to
Talk through your
hat
The Armpit Of New
Jersey
( Nickname of Newark New
Jersey
)
The Bible
Belt
The Foreigner State ( Nickname of the US state of New
Jersey
)
The Garden State ( Nickname of the US state of New
Jersey
)
The Graveyard Of The Atlantic ( Nickname of
Cape
Hatteras North Carolina )
The
Hat
( Nickname of Harry Walker )
The
Jersey
Lily ( Nickname of Lillie Langtry )
The Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A
Hat
And Other Clinical Tales ( Oliver Sacks book )
The Man in the Iron
Mask
The Rag Trade ( BBC comedy television series )
The
Sweater
Girl ( Nickname of Lana Turner )
The United Colors of Benetton ( Benetton advertising slogan )
The best seat in the house ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
The bull in the
bowler
hat
( jokey term for artificial insemination )
The cat's
pyjamas
The emperor's new clothes
The future's so bright, I gotta
wear
shades ( song by Timbuk 3 )
The
gloves
are off
The
overall
scheme of things
The shoe's on the other foot
There was an old woman who lived in a
shoe
( line from nursery rhyme )
Throw your
hat
into the ring
Tie
a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree ( Dawn with Tony Orlando song )
Tie
one on
Tie
the knot
Tie
up the loose ends
Tie
yourself in knots
Tighten your
belt
Tinfoil
hat
Tipped into a cocked
hat
Titfer ( Cockney rhyming slang for
hat
)
To
cap
it all
Togged out
Top
Hat
( Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie )
Top
gear
Town and
gown
Training
bra
Training
pants
Triumph has the
bra
for the way you are ( Triumph Lingerie advertising slogan )
Turn
coat
Tuxedo
Junction ( Glenn Miller song )
Under your
belt
Underneath Your Clothes ( Shakira song )
Up and down like a bride's
nightie
Waiting for the other
shoe
to drop
Wardrobe
malfunction ( when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast )
Wardrobe
mistress ( a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
Wave the bloody
shirt
Wear
the pine
overcoat
Wear
the
trousers
Wear
your apron high
Wear
your heart on your sleeve
Wear
yourself out
Weasel and Stoat ( Cockney rhyming slang for
coat
)
Weave
your own sandals
What a tangled web we
weave
when first we practice to deceive
What do I
wear
in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course ( Marilyn Monroe quotation )
What the well-dressed man is wearing this year ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
When I am an old woman I shall
wear
purple ( from a poem by Joseph )
When your shoes shine, so do you ( Kiwi
Shoe
Polish advertising slogan )
Whistle and flute ( Cockney rhyming slang for
suit
)
Witches
knickers
Worse for
wear
You
Wear
It Well ( Rod Stewart song )
Zoot
suit