Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish) a second-hand clothes stall.

1968

(con. 1930s–40s) J. Healy Death of an Irish Town 21: He was marked by his clogs and his hand-me-downs from ‘the standings’ of a fair day. [Ibid.] 27: He was liberated from the past of wearing the clothes off ‘the standings’ in the fair of Charlestown where ill-fitting secondhand clothes were sold.