His threadbare suit matched his skin, giving him the look of a well-worn teddy bear.

He wore a threadbare suit and tie but the tie was loose and off to one side.

He wore a threadbare suit and had the haggard look of a man who has been driving all night.

I turned to see a tiny ancient Chinese man in a threadbare suit three sizes too big for him.

Today in a threadbare civilian suit he looks small and wizened.

He wore a black cowled cape over a threadbare suit that did very little for his skinny, hollow-chested body.

Monpelier greeted the turbaned man in a threadbare white suit, with:

He pulled aside a hanger containing a greasy, threadbare suit- 'You want?'

And now she saw a large, hulk of man in a threadbare suit approaching her.

Kenneth Burrows, a divorce lawyer, has sent male clients to the Salvation Army to buy threadbare suits.