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English in clothes for stylish people (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dudes

'stylish people' is the definition.
(as in cool dudes)

'english in clothes' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is located in the answer.
'clothes' could be 'duds' (duds is a kind of clothes) and 'duds' is found within the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dudes that I've seen before include "American dandies or city dwellers" , "Civilians, to a cowboy" , "American blokes" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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