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, later revered in Ireland, from there immigrants brought the tradition of celebration to the United States of America. In recent decades, the holiday has spread throughout the world. Celebrate it on October 31, on the eve of All Saints Day.
They begin to prepare for the holiday in advance: they cut out pumpkin lanterns with an ominous smile, decorate the house, stock up 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 not choose a costume for Halloween, ideas can be found in fairy tales, scary stories, films. There are just no photos: for the holiday you can dress up as Count Dracula or werewolf, Baba Yaga or Cleopatra, a robot or Koshchei the Immortal. Outfits of movie or cartoon characters have also become popular, Avatars, Sponges of Boba, Shrek and Fiona roam the streets of American cities on a Halloween night. The most creative Americans come 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 (for the first time they began to wear fancy dress costumes in 1895), they perfectly mastered the art of inventing Halloween costume ideas. In addition, in this country they calmly relate to costume processions and regularly organize various carnivals. In Russia there is no such tradition, costumes are mostly worn only by children at matinees or at home holidays. Although all the same, thematic events are beginning to gain popularity: birthdays, weddings, youth parties, which are usually attended in pre-arranged outfits. Perhaps, over time, the ideas of costumes for Halloween and we will become diverse.
In the meantime, as sellers say, during the holiday period, Russians do not seek to buy factory outfits, they are limited to only a few accessories. They purchase witch hats, evil masks , horns and tails, swords, sabers and pistols, and embody the basic ideas of Halloween costumes with their own hands.
The easiest way to make a ghost costume. That's just what you need: take a large white sheet, cut holes at eye level, draw the outline of the eye sockets and mouth with a black marker. That's all, the outfit is ready, you can go scare your friends.
The witch costume will not be much more difficult. You need to find in your closet a black tight turtleneck and a black long skirt, put your hair in a light mess, put a pointed hat on your head. The image is reinforced with appropriate makeup. For complete surroundings, you can stick a wart from the joke store on your nose and find a broom.
From a black turtleneck and black tight trousers you can make a costume for Koshchei the Immortal for a man. To do this, cut bones from white sheets of office paper and attach them to clothes. Whiten the face, draw shadows under the eyes and complement the image with a crown and a long sword.