You put on the clothes of someone else and pretend to be that person. Little girls play "dress up" when put on their mother's hats and scarves and shoes and pretend to be grown up women. Children put on costumes and pretend to be what the costume is for - a fireman, a cowboy, a ballerina, etc.
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