This is a locution aimed almost exclusively at women who remain single. It comes from a custom in Catholic churches, which had religious images of the Virgin and saints to wear, to change their clothes according to the occasion; And that work along with other administrative or cleaning collaborations used to be done by ladies of the parishioners who had no commitments in their homes, elderly widows, with children already married or spinsters. See other versions already published as stay to dress images, stay to dress saints a woman.
