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History of Halloween costumes
Halloween, as we celebrate today, is the pinnacle of more than a thousand years of cultural evolution.
While there are many attractive truths about Halloween and Halloween legend, perhaps nothing more interesting than those involved in Halloween costumes.
While on this Halloween, you can see a collection of fire engines, football players, clowns, and of course, scary monsters, first Halloween costumes bring very little variety
In the UK, the change of seasons in late October can bring unpredictable changes.
Small days, colder weather, and need to consume more calories to make it through the imminent winter is all elements that match Halloween.
Combining this fact with the belief that ghosts return to Earth into Halloween, and you can see our European ancestors have a real hit question: the need to go out in the ball
Solution: leave the house in camouflage!
Halloween costumes soon, then, also a matter of surviving and less entertaining problems like today's Halloween costumes.
Thus, these outfits are made commonly made of animal skin or hidden to create hallucinations of a wild animal, in contrast to humans.
Another popular option is wearing a scary mask.
The idea behind a scary mask, in the case of ghosts encountered, the ghost will see a scary mask and confuse it for a vampire.
In the American colonial, where the change of the season is similar to the changes occurred in the UK, the spread of Halloween to the US is seamless.
However, the influence of native Americans and indigenous American legends, however, added a new element for Halloween costumes in the US.
The integration of face paint on the outfit begins to increase, as well as the variety of animal skin used in the dress.
From that moment in history, Halloween costumes followed a predictive course in parallel with the cultures they developed, allowing the unique difference in Halloween costumes in contemporary societies.
However, Halloween costumes will look like years from now on anyone's prediction.
