dressed to the nines

I wanted my mother to know how special that moment was when we shared the first dance, dressed to the nines in formal attire in the nation’s capital.

I’d never been around a crowd so universally beautiful and dressed to the nines; it was nearly impossible to tell which fabulous woman was a model and which was an executive.

“When I was 19 or 20, I would get dressed to the nines, as fresh as I could possibly be,” he told The Times in March 2022.

“I didn’t come out the closet til I was, like, 21,” said Scalene OnixXx, who was dressed to the nines in a cowboy-themed outfit complete with a pink tutu and knee-high purple boots.

As she was waiting, she noticed many of the passengers were “dressed to the nines,” in gowns and military uniforms.