Care and Cleaning of Your Santa Stuff

Christmas is over, and the New Year is near.  It’s time to clean your Santa suit, wig and beard and store away till next season.  In this video, is a caveat about using heat on your wig and  beard, and specifically to the use of curling irons.  It may be OK for your hair, but not for Santa’s hair and whiskers.

Thanksgiving with Costumes

Thanksgiving is the time to celebrate by coming together with each other while getting a sumptuous turkey dinner; and also last but not the least – dressing up for the occasion. 

One can dress up both like a pilgrim guy or girl to a native Indian man or woman.  Other then these costumes there are also humorous turkey costumes, which are quiet, well-liked amongst the youngsters and youngsters. The costumes for Thanksgiving can come in all shapes and dimensions for kids and adults alike. Thanksgiving costumes have a lengthy range and choice to select from. 

Thanksgiving Day Pilgrim Costumes

Dressing up for a holiday is considered a perfect way to celebrate any type of festive occasion. Halloween has come and gone and the weather is growing chillier every day. Here is the adult male pilgrim costume obviously for is a large I said in another post we have all sizes here..Small..Medium..and one here is a large size. When it comes to thanksgiving costumes for men this is the best all dress up here, and the whole family loves it.Makes it all that much more special around the dinner table. So if you’re looking for a pilgrim costume for it is,and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. These are costumes for men, women, and children!

There are a few classic costumes that I think are worth considering for your baby’s thanksgiving costume. Around the holiday season, I notice so many babies that are dressed up in holiday costumes. Last Thanksgiving I saw babies dressed up as fruits and vegetables at the mall. It was a few days before Thanksgiving but the babies were still dressed up in their attire. All the costumes on this page are cute but some of them seem a little more comfortable than others.

This is one of the adult female pilgrim costumes. I mentioned earlier we dress up here and wear thanksgiving costumes here on T-Day. This here is the pilgrim woman costume for a look at the other one’s here because they come in all don’t leave out the kids. Also makes for some good pictures,so make sure to have the camera on hand this Thanksgiving. If you don’t want to buy pilgrim costumes, you can always make your own.

Thanksgiving Costumes for Holidays And Celebrations

Get ready for your Thanksgiving event in style!  We all dress up in our pilgrim costumes on Thanksgiving, and it’s become a tradition for our family to play pilgrim.  Male pilgrim costumes can be assembled with black pants and shirt, white cuffs and collar, and a wide black belt.  Check ‘Google Images’ for ideas on what the costume should look like

The boys also have a selection of traditional pilgrim and colonial costumes – although some might want to dress up as a turkey! These costumes can also be useful for school projects where they might have a ‘Colonial day’ and need to have a costume to match the theme. Typically adults tend to stick to some basic types of costumes to go out trick or treating or to show up at their various Halloween parties. How to make Halloween, scary photo effects.

Pilgrim costume shoes are sold separately from this Thanksgiving pilgrim costume for women. These might be impossible to locate for the women, but the dresses should be long enough so as to not make much difference what shoe are worn.  Well, perhaps not tennies. This pilgrim woman costume includes full length dress, apron, collar, and bonnet.  

One last chance….

Written a year ago, but still applicable

Today is the last day of the Halloween costume season (from a costumer’s perspective) even though it’s October 30.  There may be a scattering of parties this Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and even next Saturday but not as many as this evening.

Most wearers of costumes over the past few days were ‘trick-n-treaters’ and those so fortunate as to be able to dress in a Halloween costume at work.  

This evening, no matter what time your local costume shop closes, there will be somebody pounding at their door five or 10 minutes AFTER closing time, begging and pleading to get in to make a ‘quick’ last minute purchase (which usually took a half an hour or more when we did yield and let them in). 

Will that be you?

At this stage, you might want to just take an old sheet, cut a couple of eye holes in it and go as your favorite ghost. 

You might want to wrap that sheet around you, and go as a Roman senator or a Roman goddess.

It’s creative time.  As in earlier posts, put something, anything together and give it a name.  Remembering an earlier post…”if you can name it, you have a costume”.

If you have a party still coming up or you want to prepare for next year, just go back to previous articles on this site for some great ideas.

HORRIBLE HALLOWEEN !!!!!!

NOTE:  Next week we will provide you with a few tips so as to prepare for NEXT Halloween.  Also, we will start our Christmas and Santa Claus costume posts about mid-November….so please come back soon!  

It’s Almost Halloween Costume Party Time…

and OOPS! What About Footwear? 

It’s still a few days away, and most of the final touches have been made to your Halloween costume.  Maybe a tuck here or a minor adjustment there, but you are ready to go. 

OHMYGOSH!  (or use another expletive if you prefer)   You forgot about what shoes or footwear to use with your Halloween costume. 

Not a big problem if you are wearing a long gown or a witches robe, although you should try to match the colors up as best you can just in case someone gets a glance at your feet.  Black always works.  Maybe using a can of spray paint over some old, throwaway shoes might work as well.

 But a prima ballerina in sneakers leaves a lot to be desired.  In this case, not wearing any footwear at all might be the best option.

 Fake boots can be made easily out of a vinyl material and creating a boot cover (no soles or heels, just sides).  Perhaps attaching buckles to a pair of shoes might create a Louis XIV type of shoe wear.

No old throwaway shoes?  Perhaps a visit to the thrift store?

Masks for Halloween

Not always the most comfortable of disguises, but masks can create an interest and mystique.  And the range of masks is wide-spread from a simple black eye mask (ala the ‘Lone Ranger’ to very large heavily plumed, and/or feathered masks. 

Sequined masks always have an appeal not only because they are pretty, but just a glint in the right lighting might catch the eye of the beholder (you know, the guy you are interested in).

At any costume shop, you will see a wall filled with every monster mask known to mankind.  Some are face masks (which cover the entire front, but not the back or sides), some cover ¾ of the head, and some are overhead masks.  The mask of the incumbent President and some of his predecessors will be featured on these shelves or walls.  Perhaps another politicl figure. An assortment of cartoonish characters may also grace the ‘wall of infamy’.  Most of these masks are made of vinyl or rubber.

The caveats to wearing a vinyl/rubber mask are many, but the main two are the inability to drink (other than through a straw) comfortably; limited vision because the openings for visibility might be an inch or so from the eye.  And lastly, because of the materials used, and depending upon how much of the head is covered, these masks can be very, very warm.  But then again, some people like it hot.

There are clear plastic frontal masks of a young man or woman, or an elderly man or woman.  Clear plastic is opaque so they allow the skin tones to show through but distort the features of the wearer. 

There are also ‘hoodwink’ masks that have no eye openings at all.  Sorry, I forgot.  These are used by those people who need total darkness when they sleep.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!

Looking Evil this Halloween

Are you the girl next door? The boy next door? Have you all your life been known as “a good kid”? Well, with Halloween right around the corner, this is no time to be polishing your halo. If you’re chronically cute, the trick to looking evil this Halloween is all in the eyes and makeup Forget the costume for now. Without scary eyes and makeup , that vampire outfit is almost useless.

The eyes have it.  Smudge your base color on the lid, blending up and out towards the brow till it pretty much just fades away. A nice grey would work well for this. Next you need to intensify that color with a darker color by adding it to the crease of the following the natural curve of the socket. Lighten under the brow line and use a round makeup brush to smudge it the two colors together starting from the outside in. Go easy on your eyeliner and do wear mascara. If you look younger than you are, your eyes will be just right for this look.
Makeup does not hold the magical power that a Halloween mask can. They have the ability that will transform you into another place and time whether you want to be a superhero or heroine. By starting with a Halloween costume idea you can be anybody or anything that you desire for one night of the year. From the beginning of time humans wore masks either to worship gods or spirits of the earth. Another regular item for this type a mask would be using bird feathers and creating a beak that would create a haunting bird mask.