In Britain (also Australia) we often refer to promiscuos women as tarts. Not because we eat them though.
Tart is a derivation of sweetheart and just that simple word leads us into new territory.
Tarts like to dress up in a way that makes them sexually appealing to men: short skirts, tops that expose the cleavage, and a ton of slap (make-up). So, they get tarted up.
My first ever car was a clapped out Ford Fiesta which, when I first bought it, had more holes in the bodywork than there are in a perforated tea bag.
I went to the garage and bought some filler and spray paint and tarted the car up – I bet some of you thought I was going to tell a story about a tart I’d had on the back seat…filthy minds 
So, when we give something a lick of paint and a bit of a clean up, we’re tarting it up.
Dolling it up works unall.
barnze, my old man used to say “look at her, all dolled up” and “look at those dolly birds.”
i like how you write in dialect: “unall”. cool.
Cheers…i find it keeps it real.. My old man was a Dolly Bird man unall!
i thought you might be referring to a prostitute tart you picked up in your “fiesta.”
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barnze, keep keeping it real. it’s orate pal!
eric, they’re (fiestas) incredibly small cars and no prositiute would ever get in one because of the amount of friction burns they’d aquire. not that one has told me that or that i’d ever go with a prostitute.
oh dear, i’m digging my hole deeper. this doesn’t look good for a man who went to amsterdam recently.–>
Good one Dan. Had me going there too … perhaps the photo helped rope us in some. hahaha
I’ve always liked “all decked out” or “dressed to the nines” … never quite understood either of them, but those two were used a bit around my old neighborhood.
Of course, you couldn’t dress a car to the nine, but you could indeed ‘deck it out’ …
intersting thoughts, weary hag.
i’ll make a point of investigating those two. i’ve heard of dressed to the nines before.–>