Lovely Photos of Halloween Costumes For Kids in the 1960-80s
Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Continue reading »
Hilarious Snaps Show Halloween Costumes In The 1950s And ‘60s
Need to find an impressive Halloween outfit? Just check out these snaps to see. Here below is a hilarious photo collection that shows people in their Halloween costumes in the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading »
Vintage Snapshots Of Freaky Halloween Costumes That Give You A Nightmare
Halloween is a time to dress up as your favorite character and go trick-or-treating. Nowadays, people often dress up as funny or sexy characters, but traditionally, Halloween was a time for the scariest ghouls and creepers to make an appearance. Continue reading »
These Crocheted Halloween Costumes Are So Goddamn Cool!
Halloween isn’t an international holiday, but in the places around the world where it is celebrated, most of us have had pretty similar experiences — the most common shared experience that truly binds us all together is, of course, homemade costumes. Continue reading »
Weird Halloween Costumes Of The 1970s And 80s
Unfortunately, most trick-or-treat attire of the 1970s and 80s was woefully bad. Generally, costumes consisted of a plastic mask and apron/smock. It was cheap and it came in a box at your local drug store. Continue reading »
Wonderful Photos Of John F. Kennedy With His Children In Halloween Costumes In The Oval Office
These wonderful family photos were taken on Halloween, 1963. President Kennedy, Caroline, and John Jr. all look like they’re having so much fun. It’s so sad to think that just three weeks later he would be killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas.
John F. Kennedy, Jr., walks into the Oval Office, wearing a Halloween costume. President John F. Kennedy’s Personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, stands in doorway. White House, Washington, D.C. Continue reading »
Creative Parents Build a Mad Max “War Rig” for Their Kids’ Halloween Costumes
The popular film Mad Max: Fury Road certainly wasn’t a children’s movie, but parents Cory and Jeremy Newton-Smith have adapted it into an adorable Halloween costume for their kids. Described as “‘makers’ long before the term was popular,” the couple created a “war rig” for their four-year-old son Cooper and 11-month-old daughter Ziggy. They are Max and Furiosa, respectively, and their adorable outfits complement the incredible build of the armored vehicle, which recalls the tattered grittiness of the action-packed film. Continue reading »
Heidi Klum’s Halloween Costumes
Model Heidi Klum attends her 8th Annual Halloween Party at The Green Door on October 31, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Dog Ghost Costume: Halloween Costume For Lazy Dog Owners
If you are looking for a simple and fun way to dress up your dog for Halloween, why not try a ghost costume? All you need is a white sheet and a pair of scissors. Cut out two holes for the eyes and one for the nose, and voila! You have a spooky and adorable dog ghost. Continue reading »
“Jane Asher’s Fancy Dress”: Over 100 Costumes for Children and Adults and How to Make Them, 1983
A wonderful source for costume making, for both children and adults. Imaginative, witty and creative. This is a great source book for ideas, themes, and very flexible in the use of materials. Continue reading »
As the World Plunges Into the Flames of The Pandemic, Thousands of People at The Halloween Parade in Wuhan
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Halloween revelers flocked to an amusement park in Wuhan, China, to celebrate the spooky holiday less than a year after the deadly coronavirus began infecting people in the city before spreading across the globe. The crowds, dressed in costumes including pirates, superheroes and zombie nurses, celebrated by watching a parade at Happy Valley Wuhan amusement park, photos of the scene show.
Domestic tourists have returned to Wuhan in recent months as China says they’ve turned a corner in their fight against the virus. Continue reading »
Poop Factory: The Best DIY Halloween Costume For Your Dog
Since the Halloween is rapidly approaching, here’s a simple and cheap solution for your dog’s costume. Alternatively: if you are too lazy to make one out of a cardboard box and toilet paper rolls, you can get one on Amazon. Continue reading »
A NASA Engineer Builds Weird And Better Halloween Costume
Two years ago, Mark Rober was an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, part of a team that worked on the Curiosity rover. For Halloween, he strapped an iPad to his chest and another to his back. Then he turned them on and used the devices’ cameras and screens to make it appear as if he had a gaping hole in the middle of his torso. Continue reading »
A Collection Of Nightmarish Vintage Halloween Photos From The 1930s
It’s a time when all things spooky, scary, and mysterious become the norm, when people embrace the darkness that we horror fans enjoy year round. And what is more iconic during Halloween than costumes? Sure, there are parties throughout the year where people get dressed up – wearing green on Saint Patrick’s Day or putting on a Santa outfit for local children around Christmas – but Halloween is the only time where your imagination can run wild and it’s seen as socially acceptable, even encouraged. Continue reading »
Meet The 3-Year-Old Who Is The Undisputed Queen Of Halloween
Meet Willow Lee, a 3-year-old from California who has already been dubbed the undisputed queen of Halloween.
It’s still two weeks until the holiday, but Willow’s elaborate costumes — including prison chef Red from Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, an elderly woman with a walker, and a make-up counter salesgirl at a department store — are a huge hit.
The toddler’s mother, Gina Lee, is a photographer who has been dressing up her daughter every October since she was aged just one. Continue reading »
The Time Machine: Halloween Through the Years
Two skeletons dressed for a wedding sit in a garden of the Horn family house in Isernhagen, Germany, on October 28, 2013. The Horn family has been decorating their house for Halloween for more than ten years. (CHRISTIAN DITTRICH/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Halloween Stores Prepare For The Holiday
Madeleine Wenthzel looks in a mirror as she tries on a Costume at the Halloween MegaStore Miami Beach on October 21, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida. The megastore is a temporary location for the store which opened for the holiday to sell costumes, masks and other items to people needing to dress up for the evening of October 31 when costumed people around the world observe the day. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Halloween Pet Parade in NYC
In honor of the Halloween many NYC pet owners marched through the streets with their pets in Halloween costumes.
These Creepy Vintage Photographs From the Early 20th Century Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Vintage Halloween costume snapshot
In today’s world, it’s easy to forget that everyday life used to be a lot different. People wore different clothes, read encyclopedias, and used rotary phones. Continue reading »
Zombie Walk Portraits
People dressed as a zombie taking part in Zombie Parade on a streets of Belgrade during a zombie walk in Belgrade, on October 26, 2014. The zombie walk is part of the events of upcoming Serbian film fiction festival. (Photo by Oksana Toskic/SIPA Press) Continue reading »
Turning Scars Into Luminous Pathways: A New Photography Project that Challenges the Way We See Scars
Ceridwen Hughes created a photography project called Kintsugi Beauty to challenge the stereotypes and stigma associated with scars. She photographed Phyllida Swift, CEO of Face Equality International, who has significant facial scarring after a car accident. The photos celebrate Phyllida’s scars and redefine beauty on her own terms. Continue reading »
The Eerie Costumers Of Japan’s Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons
Japan and cosplay go hand-in-hand, so it’s no surprise that every year the gigantic Halloween celebration in Shibuya yields a mass of creative costumers. An often overlooked celebration in Kyoto, however, offers just as as impressive -and possibly more terrifying-assembly of costumes. Continue reading »
Cartoonist’s Unique Take On Modern Life Will Leave You Asking For More
Ever wondered what art reimagined as fish would look like? Or what would cult classics be if they had post-modernist remakes? Most likely not, but a Canadian graphic designer is here to do it for you. John Atkinson, who features his work on his blog site Wrong Hands gives his unique take on everything random and wonderful. Continue reading »
Adorable Kid Wears Hand-Crocheted Predator Costume
With only one month to go until Halloween, cool parents everywhere have begun making their kid’s costumes for this year, instead of just buying them off the rack. While there will no doubt be a plethora of little kids wandering the streets as Black Panther or Wonder Woman or one of the Incredibles, one kid out there already has them all beaten for best costume of 2018. Continue reading »
Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution In Silicon Valley 1985-2000 In Photographs By Doug Menuez
Susan Kare Is Part of Your Daily Life. Sonoma, California, 1987
Doug Menuez is the photographer at the origin of the documentary-book Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000, published recently at Atria Books. From 1985 to 2000, Steve Jobs and many other creators have invited Menuez in the place where the Digital Revolution operated : the Silicon Valley. During all these years, this photographer captured the portraits of the biggest innovators of our time, in moments of crisis, doubts and deep joy. Continue reading »
