By degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 26.

   Bevaliant, but nottooventurous.Letthyattirebe comely, but not costly.

-Lyly,John
  Euphues, or the Anatomy of  Wit.

Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

-Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)
  Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.