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closefitting

adjective as in skintight

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It’s hard to miss them, however, since the straight black wigs and oddly cut, closefitting costumes they wear make them look like androgynous alien joggers.

He was dressed in closefitting jeans, wore aviators and appeared muscular under his thick maroon sweater.

When the pianist Igor Levit streamed dozens of performances from his apartment in Berlin during the first pandemic lockdown in 2020, he wore neat but casual clothes: closefitting sweaters, hoodies over T-shirts.

“He wears clothes in a modern way,” Mr. Flusser said — closefitting, in the vein of Daniel Craig as James Bond, often without a tie — “but with classic flourishes from the past: shirts with cutaway collars, pocket squares.”

Among those capturing that spirited and youthful mood was Ella Emhoff, the second daughter, a model and knitwear designer who grabbed attention at the inauguration in a jewel-collar closefitting Miu Miu coat worn over a Batsheva dress with its fluttery hem exposed — a gesture unthinkable in her grandmother’s day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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