dressing up
Donning fancy attire
Dressing up is putting on clothes more formal or elaborate than usual, often for a special occasion: We're dressing up for the wedding.
It also means wearing a costume to portray someone or something else: The kids are dressing up as superheroes for Halloween.
To dress up a plain thing is to make it fancier or more appealing: She dressed up the report with colorful charts.
- costumeClothing for portrayal
- cosplayDressing as media characters
- attirePersonal garments collectively
- disguiseIdentity-concealing alteration
- black tieFormal evening dress code
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- clothing actionsdonning, wearing, buttoning, zipping, putting on
- Beautifyingmakeover, decoration, adornment, embellishment, beautification
- partyingparty animal, socializing, bachelor party, mingling, bachelorette
- fashion termsstyle, fashion week, runway, catwalk, runway shows
- courtshipcourting, courtship, suitor, betrothal, wooing
- flirtingpickup line, wink, winking, hair flip, chat-up line
dressing upundressing
Removing one's clothing
getting undressed · stripping down · disrobing · stripping · baring
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