No one knows if he paid them, but at least once, he asked the buyers to give the mother a new suit of clothes.

It is likely he'll give me a tasty suit of clothes.

Rawl had been given a suit of rich dark brown trimmed in heather blue.

"They gave me a suit and $10," he said.

They had given him new underclothes and a clean suit of overalls.

We don't want to just give them a dress or a suit.

They gave me a new suit and a sword and twenty-five dollars a month, just like that.

The artist must give his time a suit.

After three years instruction the boys were to be given a suit of clothes, £2.50 for an apprentice fee.

What he did for working women, giving them a modern suit that didn't look like their mothers' clothes, was only part of the story.