Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to dress someone up (in their best clothes); to decorate a room.

1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 101: Tallyho was perplexed to know how to tog himself out in a way suitable to make his appearance in the gay world of fashion.
1835		Metropolitan Mag. XIV Sept. 333: This was the first and last time I was a tinny-hunterbut it came just in time to tog me out to the nines.
1840		‘The Queen of the Nice Little Islands’ in C. Hindley James Catnach (1878) 320: I’ll tog him out in such a style.
1841		Comic Almanack Aug. 278: Me haveing tuk the hopertunaty of Toggin myself out in 1 off the hoffisirs castoff sutes.
c.1864		‘She’s Gentle as a Tiger’ in Rakish Rhymer (1917) 41: I’d hug her to my buzzum, / And tog her out so smart.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 108/1: Curly [...] ‘togged’ himself up, and after a present or two, succeeded into ‘kidding’ the fair Lucy from her mother’s ‘padding-ken.’.
1877		Five Years’ Penal Servitude 240: He’d tog himself up in black, with a white ‘squeeze,’ on a Sunday, and go to two or three different churches.
1887		Lantern (N.O.) 9 July 5: [He’ll] tog you up in one of his model shaped suits.
1889		B. Mitford Fire Trumpet I 104: We’ll tog you out in no time.
1906		C. M’Govern Sarjint Larry an’ Frinds 44: As for Pablo, we togged him out agin in de Moro clothes he had when we abducted him.

2. to get dressed up, esp. in preparation for a night out, a party or similar event.

1866		Wild Boys of London I 82/1: We’ll all tog up, and I’ll have a gal, I will.
1880		N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: An' now haint by no means so dusty / W’en I togs myself hout in fal-lal .
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 18/4: Once every year, this poor monomaniac used to tog out in her bridal finery, which had grown yellow, mildewed, and rusty with the years, and so [...] she would sit and wait in the same old spot for him who never again returned.
1897		Albert Chevalier ‘My Sun. Out’ 🎵 On my Sunday out, I hallus togs hup ar lar mode.
1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 49: The next morning I went down the line and togged out.
1901		J. Flynt World of Graft 103: First thing I did was to tog up with the best clothes an’ jool’ry ’t I could buy.
1901		‘Hugh McHugh’ John Henry 14: My lady friend togs out in her revelry rags.
1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 14/2: [I]n the end there were many with cabs ordered and hair in crimp at 7 o’clock, setting about togging up for the party.
1906		Eve. World (NY) 22 Nov. 18/4: The Horse Show is all right for the [...] millionaires [...] But how silly for people like Mrs Kittingly to tog themselves out and go.
1959		D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 168: You should have togged up, Pudden.
1961		H.C. Woodbridge ‘Miscellany’ in AS XXXVI:3 228: tog up, v. To dress up.
2012		D. O’Donnell Locked Ward (2013) 134: When he was ‘supremely bonkers,’ he would tog up in the fatigues.