Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Costumes and how they evolved into today's party themes

By Alan Segal

We love dressing up and particular occasions give an excuse to copy characters from the past. For example Halloween allows us to recreate witches and wizards from legendary times and have a party in which we play all sorts of Halloween games.

The range of costumes now available shows the recent surge in popularity in dressing up for a party, particularly at Halloween time. It's not just kids that like to dress up.

Halloween has probably been the one event that has drive the love of costume to such great heights. Trends show that we indulge more then than Christmas, in fancy dress activity.

Halloween is almost completely devoted to the love of costumes. From the youngest to the oldest, there are costumes available to fit. When you see outfits for your pet dog, you know that we are in the grip of a new trend in dressing up.

When I was young the only costumes we would dress up in was as a vampire or a ghost. But today, if I were still a child, I'd probably go for spiderman or superman. Of course I want to identify with that last big block buster I loved.

The popularity of costumes at Halloween is now spilling over into other festivities. Easter bunny character is now popular at Easter time and Santa Clause outfits at Christmas. I certainly don;t remember my father dressing up in a Santa outfit at Christmas.

A new costume theme is cosplay, where costumes are designed on video game characters. In both America and Japan this trend has taken a strong grip on game players imagination and there are even judging events that take place alongside anime conventions. All participants are judged on how accurately they have designed their costume together with audience reaction.

So we see that today's costume and fancy dress industry has taken on a new life. It harnesses characters from the past and includes influences form the computer game- playing generation to offer a very diverse range to choose from . Whatever event you may be planning or gift you are thinking of purchasing, the choice is greater than ever. Fast online access to buy further drives the industry. - 2361

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