Synonyms of costuming

costuming

verb

present participle of costume

as in clothing

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes

the days when people, costumed in their Sunday best, would parade along the grand avenue on Easter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clothing
• dressing
• attiring
• gowning
• garbing
• draping
• robing
• garmenting
• wrapping
• enrobing
• toileting
• appareling
• habiting
• suiting
• bedecking
• rigging (out)
• arraying
• caparisoning
• decking (out)
• vesturing
• togging (up or out)
• getting up
• doing up
• investing
• dressing up
• frocking
• furnishing
• tailoring
• outfitting
• jacketing
• cloaking
• swaddling
• mantling
• uniforming
• vesting
• equipping
• swathing
• enswathing
• habilitating
• underdressing
• huddling
• happing
• accoutring
• dressing down
• bedighting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripping
• disrobing
• undressing
• unclothing
• uncovering
• untrussing
• denuding
• disarraying
• divesting
• unveiling
• undraping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of costuming

The leading actor sourced and supplied personal pieces for both projects, and approaches costuming as a shorthand into showcasing his characters’ personality. —Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026

History buffs will enjoy seeing how real events affect our fictional characters, and vintage fashion enthusiasts will love the immaculate costuming. —Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Jan. 2026

As with the hoodie and sunglasses, Robby’s unworn helmet is a subtle but effective deployment of character via costuming, one that Wyle and the show’s creators put a lot of thought into when considering Robby’s season-two arc. —Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026

Hopefuls are judged on musical performance, song choice, vocal abilities, costuming, crowd appeal and authenticity in portraying the real-life Gold Rush character Klondike Kate. —Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2026

The trickle-down effect helped secure key plot-specific pieces of costuming, but also will set the groundwork for Season 2 and beyond. —Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2025

Is it driven by digital costuming for virtual reality, greater demand for sustainability, or something else entirely? —Robert Lang, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025

An intimate, spine-tingling evening of creative conversations on horror, sound, prosthetics, and spectacle featuring Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and Janelle’s costuming team Sasha Glasser and Alex Navarro. —Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025

Koupparis, who makes costuming a speciality, is among the most senior members of this group, which first numbered about 15 people when it was founded in 2013. —Neda Ulaby, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025