The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TREWS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result TREWS
- Disperse head-to-foot clothing for the clans
- Pants and straightens up, you might say
- Head-to-toe cover for garment?
- Wife dressed in very continental clothes
- Checked garments for Scottish soldiers
- Tailor’s initial trick, we hear, making trousers
- After losing head, scatters item of clothing
- Garment very French worn by women
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What does TREWS mean?
TREWS noun- Trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan.