attire vs tart up

attire is a noun but tart up is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
attire	Yes	No	Yes	No
tart up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tart up is a hyponym of attire; that is, tart up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than attire:

attire: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
tart up: dress up in a cheap and provocative way

Other hyponyms of attire include dress, plume, preen, primp, prank, enrobe, bedizen, dizen.

attire (noun)	tart up (noun)
clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

attire (verb)	tart up (verb)
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive	dress up in a cheap and provocative way
	decorate in a cheap and flashy way