Dressed to the Nines.

[Taltarzac725]

Dressed to the Nines - Nebraska Library Commission BlogNebraska Library Commission Blog (http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nlcblog/2016/03/28/dressed-to-the-nines/)

I always wondered where this phrase came from.

Dressed to the nines - meaning and origin. (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dressed-to-the-nines.html)

But am still unsure.

A little Monday trivia.

[Boomer]

I have wondered about that one, too. And thanks for the link to Phrase Finder -- although I could spend way too much time on that site looking up idioms.

I just thought of another description for a person who is a spiffy dresser -- "looks like he just stepped out of a band box."