Still another clothing origin suggests that the phrase descends from the Old English saying dressed to the eyes, which, because Old English was weird, was written as dressed to then eyne. The thinking goes that someone at some point heard then eyne and mistook it for the nine or the nines. The hitch with these clothing-specific origins, though, is that the simpler phrases to the nine and to the nines were already used to mean to perfection for about a century before dressed to the nines came along
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