suited and booted

You can get Suited and Booted at such figures as will astonish you at the Star Store.

1876 November 30, “Local notices [advertisements]”, in Ja[me]s M. Cavaness, editor, Southern Kansas Advance, volume 8, number 47 (number 411 overall), Chetopa, Kan.: Jas. M. Cavaness, page 3, column 3

Heroines will be suited and booted in tweeds this winter. Anyway, that is Dorothy Mackaill's latest street costume; a tweed suit and shoes of the same material trimmed with a little leather.

[1928 December 19, “Screen Life in Hollywood: Tailored shoes”, in Mandan Daily Pioneer, volume XV, number 198, Mandan, N.D.: Pioneer Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 5

Jauntily suited and booted, Kathy Sheron (15), of Whitson-road, Huntington Station, New York, arrives in London to claim her prize. Kathy has won the Dave Clark Five—the British Beat Group—in a national contest, along with the title, "Miss Natural Wonder."

1965 August 7, The Guardian Journal, number J43,507, G34,027, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: T. Bailey Forman, →OCLC, page 3, column 3

In this novella, the TM [Talkative Man] meets Dr Rann, who claims to be a United Nations specialist, and unable to find a place for the strange visitor—who, as they used to say, was suited and booted—takes him to his own house.

1999, S. Krishnan, “Talkative Man [Introduction]”, in R[asipuram] K[rishnaswami Iyer] Narayan[aswami], edited by S. Krishnan, A Town Called Malgudi: The Finest Fiction of R. K. Narayan […], New Delhi; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 259

A couple of suited and booted business types appeared by my side, tossing peanuts into their mouths and gawping at the screens as though they had never seen a television before. They couldn't be from the TV station or any of the production companies that made the shows, because they were far too formally dressed.

2002, Tony Parsons, chapter 13, in Man and Wife, special overseas edition, London: HarperCollins, published 2003, →ISBN, part 2 (Your Heart is a Small Miracle), page 132

An older respondent, aged 65, humorously commented on the modern prospective son-in-law: “He only wants a watch, a ring, a gold chain, to be ‘suited’ and ‘booted’.” It was not so much caste or education that stood in the way—a good dowry was the answer!

1983, Hazel D’Lima, “Social Outlook and Awareness of Respondents”, in Women in Local Government: A Study of Maharashtra, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 95

She rumbled through her dresser drawer finding an old pair of sweats with a sports bra and tank top sliding into them quickly. She put on a thick pair of tube socks and laced up her Timbs. Suited and booted she went downstairs to wait for them to arrive.

2012, Nicety [pseudonym], “Worship”, in Killing Me Softly, Chicago, Ill.: Black Cherry Publishing, →ISBN, pages 235–236

A man talks of 'the filth [police] displaying their strength … Suited and booted waiting to tear your fucking arse off. So we got ready to tear their arses off. This is war.'

2014, Diana Bretherick, “Language of the Unheard: Riots in Popular Culture”, in David Pritchard, Francis Pakes, editors, Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 68