Meanings
noungladrags pl (plural only)
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of glad rags.
So what becomes of you my love / When they have finally stripped you of / The handbags and the gladrags / That your grandad had to sweat so you could buy?
1969, Mike d'Abo, “Handbags & Gladrags”, performed by Rod Stewart1 more example
For many, ’ardkore was a depressing manifestation of rave culture's nihilistic escapism, scantily garbed in the gladrags of a vague and poorly grounded idealism.
1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 132
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