(slang) Formal attire, dress clothes.
1896, Henry M. Blossom, Jr., Checkers: A Hard-luck Story, Grosset & Dunlap, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_IY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39&dq=%22glad+rags%22 page 39],
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(slang) Stylish clothing.
: “But say, you wouldn’t have known me if you’d seen me here with my wife that time—my glad rags on, a stove-pipe lid, patent leather kicks and a stone on my front. […]
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