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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded instance of dressing to the nines was in the 1859 Dictionary of Slang, by John Camden Hotten where it states: “‘dressed up to the nines’, in a showy or recherché manner.”
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Sources:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dressed-to-the-nines.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/554845/Dressed-to-the-nines-comes-from-old-Scottish-phrase.html
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-dressed-to-the-nines
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=dressed+to+the+nines
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-dressed-to-the-nines.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_nines
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nin1.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=iJoaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=The+Progressive+Dictionary+of+the+English+Language&source=bl&ots=BnuAoTp6WE&sig=I_DPwT9-ihdw_BVByBNnoOIQ5Ss&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YuhQU9rfGI2ZyATUlYLgDw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=nines&f=false
