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Today's
Costume
Featured Article
Costumes
- Dress
Up Can
Be Fun.
Dressing
up in
costumes
is fun
for all
ages.
Since
the
1970s,
Halloween
has
become
more and
more
popular,
and has
been
transformed
from
strictly
a
children's
holiday
to one
of the
favorite
holidays
of
adults
as well.
You can
do
without
jack
o'lanterns,
you can
do
without
trick or
treating.
But you
can't do
Halloween
without
costumes.
Let's
face it,
we dress
up
infants
in
pumpkin
buntings
because
we enjoy
it. As
long as
they're
warm and
dry,
they
don't
care,
and are
willing
to
tolerate
being
cooed at
and
photographed
extensively.
But as
soon as
they're
old
enough
to
notice
what
they're
wearing,
kids
love
Costumes.
Halloween
Costumes
for Kids
These
days,
the most
popular
purchased
costumes
for
kids are
licensed
characters
from the
movies
and TV
shows
they
love.
Superman
is
as
popular
on
Halloween
as he is
every
other
day of
the
year.
But even
more in
demand
are the
costumes
based on
that
summer's
hot
movie.
This
year,
you can
pretty
much
guarantee
a bumper
crop of
green
ogres.
Pirates
and
princesses,
robots
and
ghosts,
and
other
kinds of
generic
costumes
still
work,
too. For
older
kids
(and
many
adults)
gore
rules.
Party
and
costume
shops
now
offer a
range of
horror
makeup--blood,
fangs,
scars,
wounds,
and
gruesome
appliances--that
would do
a
Hollywood
studio
proud.
And if
Mom
can't
stomach
it, so
much the
better.
On the
other
hand,
Mom
might
look
pretty
macabre
herself.
As more
and more
adults
rediscover
the
delights
of
dressing
up,
grown-up
costume
parties
have
skyrocketed.
Licensed
characters
are
still
popular:
there
will be
a lot of
larger
ogres
and
ogresses
this
year as
well.
But
adult
costumes
range
far and
wide.
Halloween
Costumes
for
Adults
Couples
often
like to
dress in
related
costumes.
Historical
costumes
are very
much in
demand,
such as
togas,
medieval
knights
and
ladies,
or
outfits
from the
Roaring
Twenties.
There's
also a
wide
category
that
includes
his-and-her
convicts,
pirates,
vampires,
cowpokes,
etc. One
reason
for
the
popularity
of this
genre is
that the
ladies'
costumes
all seem
to come
with
short
skirts
and
cleavage!
While
kids
generally
want the
same
purchased
costume
that
their
friends
will be
wearing,
adults
often
like to
use
their
imagination
and
create
their
own
unique
costume.
I've
seen a
lot of
superheroes,
for
example,
that
never
appeared
in any
comic
book.
Individually
created
costumes
can be
extremely
complicated
or very
simple.
Concept
is what
matters,
the more
original
the
better,
and a
clever
idea
simply
realized
will be
every
bit as
admired
as the
most
ornate
getup.
While
Halloween
is the
first
thing
that
comes to
mind
when we
think of
costumes,
it's not
the only
occasion
for
dressing
up.
Kids, of
course,
love to
dress up
as
a matter
of
everyday
play,
and may
well
insist
on
wearing
their
Halloween
costumes
for
several
weeks
before
and
after
the
event.
For
adults,
there
are
Renaissance
fairs,
Mardi
Gras and
other
ethnic
or
cultural
events
that
call for
costumes.
And as
Halloween
has
grown in
popularity,
other
holidays
have
begun to
be used
as a
good
excuse
for a
costume
party.
I've
been to
several
"famous
couple"
costume
parties
on
Valentine's
Day, for
instance.
And some
of us
just
enjoy
putting
on a
gorilla
suit
whenever
we feel
like it! |
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