Sentence: While freshness is essential to being welldressed, it will be a consolation to those who cannot afford a heavy tailors bill, to reflect that a visible newness in ones clothes is as bad as patches and darns, and to remember that there have been celebrated dressers who would never put on a new coat till it had been worn two or three times by their valets.
Combination: patches and darns (root: patch, modifier: darn)
Property: unfashionable
Property type: emergent