帽子を身につける
服を身につける
etc

化粧をしている　－　Wearing make-up.

I’m conjecturing, based on the examples given, that the difference between “attached” items and “fastened” items (these are synonyms in my book) is whether they attach to the wearer directly or only to themselves. Is that right?

BTW, Yukio mentioned how easy to remember the English word ‘wear’ is in an episode of the ECC Eikaiwa podcast a while back. But he doesn’t provide nearly as much detail about the corresponding Japanese verbs.

The complexity here almost makes you want to kana-bastardize the English verb (ウェールる?) and press it into service. Do they apply native conjugation to katakana words like that, though? Most of the katakana words I’ve seen thus far are nouns, I think.