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

She came down stairs one evening arrayed in her best bib and tucker, and was speedily joined by John, whose appearance likewise indicated some approaching festivity—all but his face, which wore a rather disgusted expression.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

At four o'clock Andy and Hortense, in their best bib and tucker and with clean smiling faces, knocked at the door of the little cottage beyond the orchard where lived Fergus and Mary.

From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Grabo, Carl Henry

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

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