Tomorrow is Halloween. All of our costumes are shipped although some last minute shoppers are still ordering From Noon until 9 the endless parade of ghosts, ghouls, princesses, superheroes and pirates will be going from door to door in search of treats.
Every year I look forward to the new generation of trick or treaters. The babies and toddlers being wheeled in their strollers and red wagons are the cutest. For them, it’s more fun to play with the candy than eat it. A favorite memory from last year was a family of three kids and a 1 year old in a wagon. The siblings were pouring their treats into the wagon and the baby was in her glory, sitting in a pool of colorfully wrapped candy.
The school aged kids are so enthusiastic, running from house to house. And their costumes just keep getting better. They are more elaborate, have more props, better makeup and wigs. Long gone are the days of wearing what you had laying around the house. When we were kids we wore old ripped hobo clothes or we covered a large box in aluminum foil and cut out arm holes and said we were a robot. In a pinch, I’d put on my brothers Pop Warner uniform. I don’t think I know of a single kid wearing a homemade or improvised costume this year.
In the past few years I’ve also notice many older trick or treaters. The kids in the 12-16 year old range. There costumes are a bit more grotesque for the boys and a bit sexier for the girls. I know some neighbors who turn them away saying that Halloween is for kids but I happily give them a treat. You are only young once. You need to hang on to that for as long as possible. Besides, do you ever get too old for costumes and candy?
But regardless of what you wear or what your age, the idea remains the same: being out with friends in fresh fall air collecting candy and enjoying an awesome holiday tradition.
Wherever you are, Costume SuperCenter wants you to remember our safety tips, enjoy your costumes and have the greatest Halloween ever!
If you are an animal lover you know that pets are considered our family, our best friends, and our confidants. They give us unconditional love and loyal companionship. That is why they are so willing to allow us to dress them up for Halloween. If it makes us happy, it makes them happy so grab a costume because, aside from babies, nothing is cuter than a dog in a Halloween costume.
Our pets deserve to be part of our celebrations and holidays. These days the wide assortment of pet costumes enables you to dress your pet in a unique costume or one that matches the theme of your or your family’s costumes.
Here are some favorites:
- Honey Bee - As a cute little honey bee your pooch will be as sweet as can be. You can add to the bug theme and dress like a ladybug.
- Princess - Your dog will reign supreme as a pretty princess. Would you like to be her Prince Charming?
- Prisoner - If you or your one of your kids plan to be a cop then this costume is a must have. Imagine how cute your dog would look sitting in his crate wearing a prisoner costume.
- Elvis - the king has been reincarnated as your dog! You can’t help falling in love with this Elvis costume
- Batman - For once you can let your dog be the superhero as opposed to the faithful sidekick. Be the Robin to his Batman and really show him you love him.
Any costume will look cute on a dog. Even a simple sweater is considered a costume for a dog who never typically gets dressed up. Dressing our pets up for Halloween is another way that we can make them part of our families and show them we love them. Happy Halloween and WOOF!
For the plus size population, finding Halloween costumes used to be something difficult. Finding costumes that fit just right was not always easy. Often, you were stuck either wearing something too tight or tearing the sheets off the bed and making a toga.
The fact that the fashion and celebrity world equates deathly skinny with beautiful is as crazy as it is dangerous. Let’s face it, not everybody was meant to be a size 0 or even a 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10. In fact, the dress size of the average American women is a 14 and one-third of all American women wear a size 16 or larger. Anyone who is not a single digit size should not be made to feel like a fashion outcast. Plus size women want to be stylish and sexy. They want the same choices as the skinny girls but cut to fit their proportions. They may not find it on the racks at their favorite department store but they will find it while shopping for Plus Size Halloween costumes and sexy plus size costumes at Costume SuperCenter.
Costume SuperCenter saw the need to outfit the plus size market with the widest variety of costumes for plus size consumers available on the internet.
Embrace your curves and love yourself as a sexy pirate, a sexy cop or a sexy superhero. The choices are numerous!
Men don’t find skinny women nearly as sexy as they find the women they love when they are comfortable with their bodies and uninhibited in their attitude. So go for it!
On the downside, it is doubtful that we will ever go back to the time when popular culture revered the models of artists such as Peter Paul Ruben as “Rubenesque” works of art or to a time in fashion when backsides were accentuated with bustles to make them look even bigger. But what you can do is flaunt what you’ve got with pride because big is beautiful, plus size is sexy and attitude is everything!
No, it’s not a warm bacon and egg sandwich. They have a good time in common!
I’m going through and just searching the many costumes trying to get ideas of my next best joke or party or whatever (I’m not saying what) and I’m finding some really funny ones.
This one is a spitting image of my ex-husband. Too funny, he looks just like he did at a party we threw one Halloween. And yes, on a scale from 1 to 10, he also looked like a 2.
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Costumes that include realistic blood or scars can be particularly scary. How do you make blood and scars look real?
Photo by brandi sims (Flickr)
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Photo by BluEyedA73
Don’t you love dressing in matching couples costumes? There are so many possibilities. For one thing, it’s not too often you show up at a party in couples costumes when people can’t figure out who you are. I mean chances are, if they can’t tell who you’re supposed to be, they can figure out who your date is supposed to be, and then it all makes sense to them.
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One of the easiest and most fun characters to assume is a clown. Don’t you love turning yourself into someone colorful that makes people happy? It doesn’t take a ton of creativity or time to become a clown. It’s a great choice for a costume party, and it’s also an easy way to entertain small children at a birthday party or church festival. Best of all, you get to be someone that makes other people happy.
Photo by Tim Pierce
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I’ve always been fascinated with makeup and how quickly a person can be transformed by using it properly. Did you ever see photo shots of Hollywood actresses without their makeup? It’s kind of shocking. We’re so used to the transformation each actress has created that we forget how plain many of them are without it.
- Credit: Willrad von Doomenstein
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There are a lot of things that I remember from kindergarten, but one of the most memorable things from that school year was my teacher dressing up like Mother Goose and reading up some nursery rhymes. Our teacher sat in a rocking chair and rocked slowly, reading the rhymes and you could have heard a pin drop anywhere else in the classroom. Something about wearing a costume made the experience so much more dramatic and so much more magical that it ever could have been otherwise.
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