in deplorable condition "a street of bedraggled tenements" "a broken-down fence" "a ramshackle old pier" "a tumble-down shack" - broken down- tumble down
worn to shreds
or wearing torn or ragged clothing "a man in a tattered shirt" "the tattered flag" "tied up in tattered brown paper" "a tattered barefoot boy" "a tatterdemalion prince"