Adjective : a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo. ,a becoming sentiment.    From Dictionary.com. 

• "I say sacrifice style any day for becomingness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE: Edith Head, The Most Famous Costume Designer of All Time (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference

Only see that it combines the graces of comfort and becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference

The becomingness of exercising this office is removed in two ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Besides, the extreme becomingness of your toilet altogether disarmed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

Now that the war was over, he regretted the becomingness of the uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

She had the authority of the Appalachians, and the becomingness of the Bulgarian Roses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A D O N I S] Reference

I am not speaking of becomingness and grace; I am speaking of health and conservation of force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Changing a pattern the slightest sometimes makes a great deal of difference in its becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

Hence the need of a special virtue that maintains the becomingness of this order: and this virtue is called friendliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

A rule by which to judge of the becomingness of a hat and to which there is no exception is this -- the hat must enhance your looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

On the other hand man derives pleasure from the other senses, not only for this reason, but also on account of the becomingness of the sensible object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

So the hat should be the crowning glory of a costume, the center of interest, and should receive the most careful attention as to becomingness, suitability, and workmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

Of the becomingness, however, there could be no doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's] Reference

'I certainly shall never be rebuked for my becomingness.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

Bonnet's putting up her hair, she could not deny the becomingness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's] Reference

The new hat was a dream of beauty and becomingness in my unlearned eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference

His judgment about the becomingness of the color had, us usual, been unerring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Percival] Reference

It believes in "change" for its own sake and the "becomingness" of all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [SharperIron] Reference

Of this becomingness she was doubtless unaware at the moment that he surprised her.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Carquinez Woods] Reference

Perhaps her future husband meant no such thing, and would arrange it all with quiet becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Life] Reference

Lord Beverdale contented himself with rallying his fair guest on the becomingness of "good works.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference

As he put on his new clothes he felt the moral support which the becomingness of dress alone can give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Summer] Reference

She dressed herself soberly, yet not without that mournful thrill that fitness and becomingness lends to bereavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beloved Woman] Reference

A dainty breakfast cap surmounted her coil of curls, donned, it must be confessed, because of its extreme becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Butterfly Days] Reference

The Japanese robe of "midnight blue," embroidered in yellows, heightened the impression of vigorous health by its becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers] Reference

I give you the two passages in full, trusting that you may so feel the becomingness of the one, and the gracelessness of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

There could have been no doubt of the historical correctness of the dress, though there might have been some question of its becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference

'becomingness,' -- decent apparel, rather than glorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

A gentleman is its entire harmony, unobtrusiveness, and becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

"He was one of my elders, at all events, and becomingness of bearing should have taught me to hold my little tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shuttle] Reference

Both girls exclaimed over its becomingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation] Reference