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Why Do Both Kids & Adults Enjoy Wearing Costumes? One of the best-loved traditions in America, and across the globe for that matter, is wearing costumes for special occasions, theme parties, and to celebrate holidays. Of course Halloween is by far the most popular time to need the top costume ideas, but did you ever wonder how the wearing of costumes became so popular once upon a time? One of the first places the public began to see costumes was in live theater. In combination with simple props, theatrical costumes help actors portray characters' age, gender, profession, social class, personality, and even information about the time period, geographic location, time of day, and the season or weather. Before movies and TV and special effects, men's costumes (only men were actors at first) and props were all that actors had to help tell the story and put their performance into perspective. So the best costume helped tell the best stories. When Masquerade parties became popular in the 15th century, it became mainstream in Europe (especially in Italy during Carnival), for everyone to dress up in costumes to celebrate festivals. Just about every holiday has an icon or two that symbolizes it, hence the need for Renaissance costumes and Santa suits and Easter Bunny costumes and Mardi Gras costumes, and so many more. So when we celebrate holidays, we imitate these well-known personas by wearing costumes. And adult costumes for theme parties have become increasingly popular in the last decade— think Hawaiian luau costumes or a 1950s theme. Women's costumes have become sexier— especially sexy pirate costumes and fairytale versions! And did you know that online Halloween costumes account for millions of dollars in revenue each year? Apparently all ages love dressing up in Halloween costumes!  Kids costume ideas are as numerous as their moods and imagination, so there's never a lack of dress up opportunities that help children explore and role play. Kids like to pretend they are characters from history or fiction like pirates, cowboys, or Star Trek and are learning about those roles at the same time they are dressing up. Boy's costume ideas might include adult professions generally associated with grown men such as firefighters or police officers.   Girl's costume ideas might include nurses or fairy princesses. Dressing up in animal costumes is a fun way for kids to pretend to be that animal— complete with sounds (but hopefully not smells!) found in the zoo or on a farm. Another very popular situation where costumes are worn is for sporting events— as in the case of a mascot costume. All types of animals are popular as mascot costume ideas since most sports teams and colleges tend to use fierce beasts or birds as their team or business logo. Of course there's the popular Green Man Suit Dressing up in costume is fun for everyone—young or old, man, woman, child and even dog costumes. Pretending to be something you're not, or wish you could be, even for a short amount of time, is all in the spirit of fun and celebration. And luckily the top costume ideas are plentiful, affordable, and downright fun to buy!  We appreciate that you are browsing here so that your next costume-wearing occasion is the best ever!

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