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Costume design & wardrobe · Working

Costume standby

Also called: wardrobe standby

ELI5

The on-set costume crew member maintaining continuity, fit, cleanliness and quick adjustments during filming.

Used in conversation

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

Pitch context

You may encounter “Costume standby” 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.

Sources & evidence · 3

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