The style costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a gaudy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.
Male dancerâÂÂs standard costume includes tights and a tunic worn on the upper body. Their tights are a amassed less shear material then womenâÂÂs tights, but they also wear their tightsâ seams in the back. Men wear a dance bash under their tights for support and to keep the form aligned. Men also wear a regular belt Adult Costumes or suspenders to hold up their tights.