getups

Noun

getup (plural getups)

1. (US, informal) Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
   • When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
2. (informal) A fight or altercation.
   • "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."2002 January 28, Andrea Sachs, “Caricature Builder”, in Time
3. Layout and production style, as of a magazine.