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Only in the military.


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And in Britain/Europe, I think. I recall novels with a proper tailor inquiring of Our Hero (who's only recently come into his own) "How do you dress, Sir?"

In the US we don't use tailors any more, as a rule.

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Now that you mention it, I've read that sentence too, and had
no idea what it meant. I think I remember my father trying to
explain it when we went clothes shopping, but I was too busy
to pay much attention to him. Dang.


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ah, but 'dress right' or 'dress left' can also mean to look that direction and 'form up' on that person so that your line is straight and you are a measured distance from the other person. I think it is actually, 'dress, right, dress' if I remember from my daughter's marching band days.


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Indeed; that was the source of the title of my post, and also another instance of the original thread title "double entendre" !

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