When it comes to being properly dressed, you couldn’t get anything more authoritative than the way PG Wodehouse would have described the members of the Drones club, especially Bertie Wooster or Galahad, and he would have used the phrase “immaculately dressed”, I think.

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He probably had more expansive ways of putting it as well, but looking it up in the printed literature Is quite a time-consuming task (mainly because of the Brockhaus effect).

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I’m not sure that the issue of “it doesn’t translate” really comes up here. In my view, it’s more a question of equivalence: a speaker in one culture would have expressed it one way, a speaker in another would have expressed it differently.

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In Afrikaans I might say “ Nou’s ek gatvol!”, but in English one might say “Now I’ve had a bellyful” or “I’ve had it it up to here”.

The anatomical relocation of the sentiment, or the loss of any such reference, would be immaterial, in my view.

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But there are as many views of what translation is or should achieve as there are authors on this subject, and I don’t want to get involved in that debate.