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Costume design & wardrobe · Specialist

Distressing

Also called: ageing

ELI5

Techniques used to make clothing or objects appear worn, aged, dirty or damaged.

Used in conversation

“The treatment should show the distressing clearly enough for the department to plan it.”

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 3

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.