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

"Sure, child; wear your best bib and tucker, if you like, but I like you better in your play-clothes."

From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn

Yesterday was Sunday and Olga in her best bib and tucker sat out in the sun with Dinky-Dink.

From The Prairie Wife by Dunn, Harvey

I put on my best bib and tucker, knowing how important these things are in the eyes of imaginative people.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

The little front garden, in its white-sanded walks and well-weeded beds, brilliant in many-hued blossoms, was just like a spruce country-damsel in her best bib and tucker.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various