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

Sessa is an attractive young man with Tony's impossibly lean physique, who looks good in every single piece of 1975-era costuming. — Laurie Woolever, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026

The seasonal job is part of her plan to eventually move to New York City and pursue her dream of working in wardrobe and costuming for Broadway, film and other productions. — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 19 July 2026

That attention to detail was present across all of the show’s departments, from sets and costuming to the cameras that captured it all. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 15 June 2026

True to its source material, this latest adaptation of the vampire story delivers on the centuries old legacy of sexiness; costuming for the show playing an integral part in pulling that off. — Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

Cats is a ballroom-culture fantasia, stuffed to the brim with stunning displays of costuming artistry across two acts of musical-theater excess. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 May 2026

Three-time Academy Award and three-time BAFTA winning costume designer Sandy Powell is on board for costuming. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 May 2026

The pictures capture thirty years of evolving set design and costuming in Technicolor—or rather, a gaudier and more hallucinogenic version of it. — Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

Chrome filigree details outline white French tips, nodding to the swoon-worthy Edwardian costuming in period pieces like Bridgerton. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026