best bib and tucker

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Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Daughter, dress yourself in your best bib and tucker and meet me at the corner of Joyce Street at four-thirty.

From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Long, Helen Beecher

"We must look out your best bib and tucker."

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

Dressed in his best bib and tucker, he was, beaver hat and all.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Nature appears to have on her best bib and tucker for the occasion.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto