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a trendy designer fashioning glad rags for the beautiful people
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In photos shared on Instagram, Victoria and David posed in their purple glad rags in front of their wedding day thrones.
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 July 2024
Born quite literally of postwar abundance — fabric was no longer in short supply — the poodle skirt merged seamlessly with the youth culture of the 1950s, a set of glad rags that appeared to presage a carefree era.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
Roll out that red carpet, don your fanciest glad rags, and pour that bubbly because Oscar season is upon us!
—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 1 Mar. 2023
Dressed in the most glittering of glad rags, the models looked ready to get loose in the club, as just about everyone is right now.
—Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2021
The story itself is quite a rocket ride (fueled by a lot of booze and blow), beginning in glad rags and garbage bags in clubs along Sunset Strip, circa 1978.
—Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
The hotel’s population of guests look fab in their period glad rags.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 July 2024
Born quite literally of postwar abundance — fabric was no longer in short supply — the poodle skirt merged seamlessly with the youth culture of the 1950s, a set of glad rags that appeared to presage a carefree era.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
Roll out that red carpet, don your fanciest glad rags, and pour that bubbly because Oscar season is upon us!
—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 1 Mar. 2023
Dressed in the most glittering of glad rags, the models looked ready to get loose in the club, as just about everyone is right now.
—Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2021
The story itself is quite a rocket ride (fueled by a lot of booze and blow), beginning in glad rags and garbage bags in clubs along Sunset Strip, circa 1978.
—Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
The hotel’s population of guests look fab in their period glad rags.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
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“Glad rags.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glad%20rags. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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