The word 'costume' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the clothing worn for a special occasion or activity, such as a play, a Halloween celebration, or a costume party. For example: "I'm planning to make my own costume for the Halloween party this year."
Why? Have you ever thought about playing in costume dramas?
"The chicken costume is a mainstay," tweeted Bertram.
When I wasn't worrying about how to stop the water breaching my bodily barriers, I was fretting about catching pond life in the miniature drag net that is a swimming costume on an ample bosom.
Thursday night's Banished and Sunday night's Poldark are actively rewriting the visual grammar of the costume drama as we know it.
Her eyes "filled with tears and she said 'I can't have it, it says they're only for boys.'" But Izzy decided not to take it lying down and, following a quick chat with her mother about gender stereotypes, she wrote to Disney to explain her sadness about how the costume was labelled.
It was a costume, a pose, a magic ticket to get him through the door.
The actress had just done a quick change in the wings from one outfit to another, and the hanger had attached itself as she brushed past it on the costume rail.
The Daily Mirror organised a man in a chicken costume to demonstrate against Cameron's cowardice.
Diana, Princess of Wales, was an early advocate of the adoption of eastern costume, taking her cue from her close friend Jemima Goldsmith, who had more valid reasons to wear the shalwar kameez when she married Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, and converted to Islam.
See also: Trees Lounge, Cheech And Chong's Nice Dreams, Comfort And Joy Don't see also: Phantasm Pointless trivia: Chloe Sevigny acted as costume designer on her then boyfriend Harmony Korine's Gummo (1997).
And I will be the first one to tell you that standing on that stage, in that costume, was one of the most degrading things I felt like I could ever do".
