Dressed to the Nines.
 

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I always wondered where this phrase came from.

Dressed to the nines - meaning and origin.

But am still unsure.

A little Monday trivia.

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."