gladrags

gladrags pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of glad rags
   • 1969, Mike d'Abo (lyrics and music), “Handbags & Gladrags”, performed by Rod Stewart:

     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?

   • 1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 132:

     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.

• laggards