where did dressed to the nines come from
To the nines The phrase is said to be Scots in origin.[2] The earliest written example of the phrase is from the 1719 Epistle to Ramsay by the Scottish poet William Hamilton:
Ed Gein A 16-year-old youth, whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended ball games and movies with him, reported that Gein kept shrunken heads in his house, which Gein had described as relics from the Philippines, sent by a cousin who had served on the islands during World War II.[45] Upon investigation by the police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from corpses and used by Gein as masks.[46]