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

And most of them even in their best bib and tucker were not out of the picture.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Emerson, Alice B.

She hoped that Dyckman would take her out to the theater or a dance, and she put on her best bib and tucker, the bib being conspicuously missing.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

Then yard-arm and yard-arm, the frigate with her canvas canopy of upper sails furled, and the brig in her best bib and tucker, they both filled away and moved side by side.

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The women proved that they had not left all their finery in the States, while nearly every child was in its best bib and tucker.

From Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers by Adams, James Meade