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Four simple words comprise the Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub’s mission statement: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN… Our founder, Charlie Doe, had an idea to create a restaurant that was more than a place that served great food. Charlie wanted to give locals a place where they’d always feel at home.
Here at The Nines, we have one major ambition, and not the least: provide you with quality, durable and innovative clothing. Our TechNines collection gathers all our technical creations, to meet your daily needs beyond the stylistic aspect. Shirts, jackets, pants... these ingenious pieces will surely keep you going all day long.
’To the nines’ has now gone out of use and only persists in the more specific ’dressed to the nines’ (or sometimes ’dressed up to the nines’). Dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines are merely a version of the phrase that is applied to clothing.
Everyone is dressed to the nines. Huge hats, frills, tight dresses, sequins and high heels. Lola was off to a party, all dressed up to the nines. Note: You can also say that someone is done up to the nines. It felt like a wedding, with everyone done up to the nines.
In his entry for the phrase ’to the nines’ Fallows gives the example ’dressed up to the nines’ and suggests that it may perhaps be derived from ’to thine eynes’ - to the eyes. Not bad as a hypothesis, but without any evidence (and I can find none) ’may perhaps’ is as far as we can go with that.