Possible Clues:

• 2 and 12, e.g., in dice
• TT and TT are, perhaps, so wearing
• TT & TT go with the hose
• 'Attire' has two Ts
• Producers of tittle-tattle from story of roofer's partner with hose?
• Old clothes: a couple of shirts perhaps?
• Misgivings about the French garments of an earlier time
• Old-fashioned garments found in pretty knitting patterns
• TT and TT as worn of yore
• How T.T.s were worn