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January 22, 2019


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INDEX OF CATEGORIES
  • General
  • Apparel
  • Accessories
  • Socks 'N Shoes
  • Bed and Bath
  • Home Fashions
  • Movies
  • Songs
  • Quotations

    • GENERAL
    • A corduroy road
    • A stitch in time saves nine
    • Belt and suspenders solution
    • Blue collar worker
    • Bolt out of the blue
    • Button hole it
    • Bust your buttons
    • Button your lip
    • Chiffon pie
    • Clothes don't make the man
    • Clothes horse
    • Coming unraveled at the seams
    • Computer interface
    • Cross-dresser
    • Cut from the same cloth
    • Dressed to kill
    • Dressed to the nine
    • Dyed in the wool
    • A fighter bobbing and weaving
    • Get fleeced
    • Glad rags
    • Grab him by the lapels
    • Hanging by a thread
    • He'll give you the shirt off his back
    • He's cut from the same cloth
    • Hot under the collar
    • Mouth as dry as cotton
    • Neddle in a haystack
    • Off the cuff
    • One size fits all
    • On tenter hooks (meaning to be in a tense or heightened state of anticipation) comes from a process in making woolen fabrics. Tenter hooks hold the woolen fabric on the tenter frame to stretch the fabric back into shape after fulling.
    • Personality of a wet dish rag
    • Play dress-up
    • Pull the wool over your eyes
    • Police officers gets a "collar"
    • Pop goes the weasel. - When spinning wool on to a reel (weasel), the pop was the sound made when a certain length of yarn was reached.
    • Rag Time
    • Ribbon of lights
    • Ring around the collar
    • Roll up your sleeves
    • Ruffle you feathers
    • Satin and lace
    • Satin doll
    • Sheer madness
    • Sewing bee
    • She would look good in burlap
    • Smooth as silk
    • Snap out of it
    • Spin a yarn
    • The Emperor's New Clothes
    • The Fabric of Our Lives...
      (Cotton Incorporated slogan)
    • The velvet touch
    • The Velveteen Rabbit
    • Turn up your collar
    • Wear your heart on your sleeve
    • White collar worker/job
    • Window dressing
    • Wolf in sheep's clothing
    • You can dress him up, but can't take him anywhere
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    APPAREL
    • A coat and tie affair
    • As stiff as a new pair of jeans
    • Came in on his coat tails
    • Colder than a brass bra
    • Got caught with your britches down
    • Don't get your knickers in a knot!
    • Don't get your panties in a wad!
    • Everyone puts pants on the same way..
      one leg at a time.
    • Faked out of his jock
    • He lost his shirt
    • Hot pants
    • Joseph and the coat of many colors
    • Keep your pants on
    • Little black dress
    • New Jersey
    • Pajama party
    • Roll up your sleeves and get to work.
    • Skirt the issues
    • Stuffed shirt
    • Suit up
    • Sunday clothes
    • That's a kick in the pants!
    • Too big for his britches
    • Washing dirty linens in public
    • Who wears the pants in the family?
    • Your slip is showing
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    ACCESSORIES
    • A black tie affair
    • A cloak and dagger novel
    • A feather in his hat
    • A real jock
    • A veil of secrecy
    • A veiled threat
    • Bikini Beach
    • Can´t make a silk purse from a sow´s ear
    • Handle it with kid glooves
    • Hang on to your hat
    • It´s getting deep, put your hip boots on
    • Keep it under your hat
    • Keep your hat on
    • Necktie party
    • So proud his buttons popped off
    • Take off the gloves
    • The Mad Hatter
    • Tie one on
    • Throw down the gloves
    • Tied to your mother's apron strings
    • Under the cloak of darkness
    • Using belt and suspenders
    • White glove treatment
    • You can't hide behind your mother's apron
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    SOCKS 'N SHOES
    • A sock hop
    • Comfortable as a pair of old shoes
    • Church socks - holy
    • Gum shoe
    • It´ll knock your socks off
    • Keep your seams straight
    • Kick off your shoes and stay awhile
    • Pick yourself up by the boot straps
    • Put a shine on your shoes
    • Put a sock in it
    • Sock it to me
    • Walk a mile in my shoes
    • Well heeled
    • Your mother wears combat boots
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    BED & BATH
    • A blanket statement
    • A security blanket
    • Bedding down for the night
    • Between the sheets
    • Crying towel
    • Don't be a wet blanket
    • Hide under the covers
    • Pigs in a blanket
    • Pillow fight
    • Pillow talk
    • Put together like a patchwork quilt
    • Throw in the towel
    • Towel off
    • Three sheets to the wind
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    HOME FASHIONS
    • As snug as two bugs in a rug
    • Cut a rug
    • It´s curtains for you
    • Curtain climbers
    • Pull the rug out from under you
    • Rug rats
    • The Iron Curtain
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    MOVIES
    • A Patch of Blue
    • Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Blue Velvet
    • Cotton Club
    • Cotton Comes To Harlem
    • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
    • How to Make an American Quilt
    • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
    • The Lace Maker
    • Lady in Red
    • National Velvet
    • Pajama Game
    • Petticoat Junction (TV)
    • Pillow Talk
    • Silk Stockings
    • The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit
    • The Man With One Red Shoe
    • The Red Shoes
    • The Robe
    • Torn Curtain
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    SONGS
    • Alice Blue Gown
    • A White Sport Coat and Pink Carnation (Marty Robbins)
    • Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk (Dr. Hook)
    • Bell Bottom Blues
    • Black Slacks (The Sparkle Tones)
    • Blue Suede Shoes
    • Blue Velvet (She Wore)
    • Bobby Socks to Stockings (Frankie Avalon)
    • Buttons and Bows
    • Cat Clothes (Carl Perkins)
    • Chantilly Lace
    • The Chiffons (singing group)
    • Coat Of Many Colors
    • Cotton Fields of Home
    • Cotton Jenny (Gordon Lightfoot)
    • Dedicated Follower of Fashion (The Kinks)
    • Devil with a Blue Dress on
    • Dress You Up (Madonna)
    • Fashion (David Bowie)
    • Floatin' Down to Cotton Town
    • Forever In Blue Jeans
    • Grandma's Feather Bed (John Denver)
    • Grandmother´s Apron
    • Handbags & Gladrags (Rod Stewart)
    • Here Comes Peter Cottontail
    • High Heeled Sneakers
    • Hot Pants (James Brown)
    • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
    • I Am A Material Girl (Madonna)
    • I Danced With A Dolly With A Hole In Her Stocking
    • I Got Five Patches In My Overalls
    • Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
    • Jean
    • Jeans On
    • Lady in Red
    • Leather and Lace
    • Lipstick On YOur Collar
    • Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress (Hollies)
    • Mini Skirt Minnie (Wilson Pickett)
    • My girlfriend´s Quilt
    • Night in White Satin (Bee Gees)
    • Nylons (Group Name)
    • One Size Fits All
    • The Orlons (singing group)
    • Patches
    • Pink Petal Pushes (Carl Perkins)
    • Pointed Toe Shoes (Carl Perkins)
    • Rag Doll
    • Rags to Riches
    • Scarlet Ribbons
    • Sam You Made The Pants Too Long (Barbara Streisand)
    • Seamless
    • Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
    • Silver Thread and Golden Needles
    • Sister Suzie Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
    • These Boots are Made for Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
    • The Thong Song
    • The Twentieth Century Rag
    • Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree
    • Tie Me to Your Apron Strings, Again
    • Tuxedo Junction
    • Twentieth Century Rag
    • Two Silhouettes on the Shade
    • Wooly Bully
    • The Velours (Group)
    • Velveteens (Group)
    • Venus in Blue Jeans
    • You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
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    QUOTATIONS
    • A stich in time saves nine
    • Always wear clean underwear. You don't know when you might be in an accident. - Mom
    • Beware of enterprises that require new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau
    • Bless your cotton pick´n heart. Tennessee Ernie Ford
    • Oh! what a tangled web we weave.
    • When life gives you scraps, make a quilt.
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