Getting Ready for the Holidays: Halloween Costume Ideas

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Halloween is a holiday with a long history, although in our country they learned about it only at the end of the twentieth century. Halloween has ancient Celtic roots, it was later revered in Ireland, from where immigrants brought the tradition of celebration to the United States of America. In recent decades, the holiday has spread throughout the world. It is celebrated on October 31, on the eve of All Saints' Day.

They start preparing for the holiday in advance: they carve pumpkin lanterns in the form of faces with a sinister smile, decorate the house, stock up on sweets and come up with ideas for Halloween costumes. The most popular and traditional images are witches, vampires, ghosts and other evil spirits. If you can't choose a Halloween costume, you can get ideas from fairy tales, scary stories, and movies. There are so many photos: for the holiday you can dress up as Count Dracula or a werewolf, Baba Yaga or Cleopatra, a robot or Koshchei the Immortal. The outfits of movie or cartoon characters have also become popular, Avatars, Sponge Bobs, Shrek and Fiona roam the streets of American cities on Halloween night. Most Creative Americanscome up with Halloween costume ideas even for their four-legged pets.

Why am I talking about Americans? Yes, because for more than a hundred years (the first masquerade costumes for the holiday began to be worn in 1895), they have perfectly mastered the art of coming up with the idea of \u200b\u200bHalloween costumes. In addition, in this country, costume processions are calm and various carnivals are regularly held. In Russia, there is no such tradition; costumes are mostly worn only by children at matinees or home holidays. Although thematic events are still beginning to gain popularity: birthdays, weddings, youth parties, to which it is customary to come in pre-agreed outfits. Perhaps, over time, the ideas of Halloween costumes will become diverse with us.

In the meantime, as the sellers say, during the holiday, the Russians do not tend to buy factory outfits, they are limited to only some accessories. They buy witch hats, masks of evil spirits, horns and tails, swords, sabers and pistols, and embody the main ideas of Halloween costumes with their own hands.

The easiest way to make a ghost costume. All you need is to take a large white sheet, cut holes at eye level, draw the outlines of the eye sockets and mouth with a black marker. That's all, the outfit is ready, you can go to scare your friends.

Witch costume will not be much more difficult. You need to find a black tight turtleneck and a black long skirt in your closet, bring your hair into a lightmess, wear a pointed hat on your head. Complete the look with appropriate makeup. For a complete entourage, you can stick a wart from a joke store on your nose and find a broom.

From a black turtleneck and black tight trousers you can make a Koshchei the Immortal costume for a man. To do this, cut out bones from white sheets of office paper and attach them to clothes. Whiten the face, draw shadows under the eyes and complete the image with a crown and a long sword.