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toggery, toggerie, tuggery noun plural
1 (fine) clothes: Liza wis walking doon the road and her claes were tidy cos she borrowed her black tuggery frae a pal of hers cawed [called] Jeannie, and Jeannie also had recently buried her auld faither. [old father]; : ...Mother told me that the lady of the big house had been down with her car. ‘Wait till you see the barry [fine] tuggery that she brought for you. 19-.
2 bedclothes 20. etymology: possibly a development from tog apparently a shortening of togeman, n; used in vagabonds’ Cant as early as the 16th century; its currency in the 19th century was aided by its connection with toga ‘the garment of a Roman citizen worn in time of peace’; form toggerie sense 1 attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; sense 2 attested by Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; form toggerie also collected by EMcC/PS; sense 1 attested by SR, JS, BS in TDITA, SS, BW and collected by RD note:

Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) attested the forms Toge ‘a coat’ as ‘Cant’ and Togs ‘Clothes’. Grose and Egan (1823) attest tog ‘a coat’ also as ‘Cant’; togger ‘a great coat’ and togs ‘clothes’.

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) also cites the form toggiers and defines it as ‘clothes’.