Related Clues:

• It's the little bits of reading, writing and arithmetic that hold the silver
• Precursor to riches
• Shoddy clothing
• Old clothes
• Threadbare threads
• Small pieces of cloth (but can be glad)
• Glad __: party clothes
• Pauper's wear
• Threads in shreds
• Pre-riches state?
• Shabby wear
• Counter cleaners
• Cloth tatters
• Poverty, metaphorically
• Tabloids, to some