Costume design & wardrobe · Working
Costume buyer
ELI5
A costume-department specialist who sources and purchases clothing, accessories and materials.
Used in conversation
“The costume buyer needs the latest materials before the next art-department meeting.”
Pitch context
You may encounter “Costume buyer” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.
Connected terms
- WardrobeComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 3
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- ScreenSkills — Online Learning Glossary and Job ProfilesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Association of Independent Commercial Producers — AICP Guidelines and Best PracticesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- pitch.dog — Pitch Dictionary Deep Research SynthesisSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-14