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  • Liz LochheadVow: The Simplest, Hardest and the Truest ThingOne: We live in love, so finally are come today beyond the gladrags and the sweet bouquet beyond cake or ring or all this fuss to this, the simplest and the truest thing for us.

    Poems for a wedding 2011

  • What was striking was that when we took trips to the shops in our new gladrags, both of us felt immensely liberated: our bodies were finally our own, hers to show off as she pleased, mine to cover if I wanted.

    LabourList: France Tells Women What Not to Wear 2009

  • Whence followeup with end-speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur — suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Punters turned up for the weekend in their vintage gladrags and paraded for each other in floral skirts, nip-waisted jackets, piles of hair and every shade of red lipstick.

    Evening Standard - Home Liz Hoggard 2011

  • For the second time this year the royal family dusted off their gladrags to watch one of their own marry a commoner.

    The Guardian World News Mark Smith 2011

  • So if you went to a prom last year and you have a picture of you in your gladrags then sent it into Saffy on our picturedesk by emailing wmreaderpics@mediawales.co.uk or directly to walesonline.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Punters turned up for the weekend in their vintage gladrags and paraded for each other in floral skirts, nip-waisted jackets, piles of hair and every shade of red lipstick.

    Evening Standard - Home Liz Hoggard 2011

  • Punters turned up for the weekend in their vintage gladrags and paraded for each other in floral skirts, nip-waisted jackets, piles of hair and every shade of red lipstick.

    Evening Standard - Home Liz Hoggard 2011

  • Punters turned up for the weekend in their vintage gladrags and paraded for each other in floral skirts, nip-waisted jackets, piles of hair and every shade of red lipstick.

    Evening Standard - Home Liz Hoggard 2011

  • It's going to be like a night out for me - I'll have my gladrags on and watch some great performances.

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

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