dolling up

Surely you can devise a presentable outfit somewhere between dolling up and being dirty.

Reese wonders why “a bunch of New York men wearing flannel and slamming whiskey is seen as a sorely needed release of their barely tamed and authentic masculinity, but when she, a trans, delights in dolling up, she’s trying too hard.”

“She must have spent a lot of time dolling up for Dad.”

Corporate parties, foreign travel, and state receptions are, with weddings and the lunar New Year, the primary occasions for dolling up.

But behind the glitz and glamor lies the chaos of the backstage--assistants making last-minute adjustments, hair and makeup stylists dolling up the models and producers trying to maintain order--all the moving pieces working together to put on a grand show.