Before mass-produced costumes entered the scene, Halloween costumes were a lot more…creative. Forced to make their own masks, dresses, and props–often using highly questionable crafting…
Many people keep a bowl of candy by the door during Halloween for the many trick-or-treaters that come calling on October 31st. But if anybody turns up on your doorstep dressed like anyone in the pictures below, it's not candy you're going to need. No, it's a crucifix and a bottle of holy water. Because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these vintage Halloween costumes are absolutely terrifying.
Many people keep a bowl of candy by the door during Halloween for the many trick-or-treaters that come calling on October 31st. But if anybody turns up on your doorstep dressed like anyone in the pictures below, it's not candy you're going to need. No, it's a crucifix and a bottle of holy water. Because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these vintage Halloween costumes are absolutely terrifying.
In a clever nod to two October holidays, FamilySearch has shared photos of vintage Halloween costumes your parents or grandparents may have worn as children.
Riesiges Sortiment an authentisch historischen Schnittmustern, Modeaccessoires, Material für historische Handarbeiten, Korsett- und Reifrockzubehör, Stoffe, Bänder, Hutmacherwaren und historische Kurzwaren. - Discover our huge range of historical sewing patterns, fashion accessories, corsetry and millinery supplies, fabrics, silk ribbons, period hats and haberdashery.
Many people keep a bowl of candy by the door during Halloween for the many trick-or-treaters that come calling on October 31st. But if anybody turns up on your doorstep dressed like anyone in the pictures below, it's not candy you're going to need. No, it's a crucifix and a bottle of holy water. Because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these vintage Halloween costumes are absolutely terrifying.
This is a PDF copy of the 24 page Ladies Home Journal Masquerade Costume Sewing Pattern Catalog from the 1920s. These pattern booklets are a great way to learn about fashion from a certain era, gain inspiration for your latest vintage style sewing project, research a particular pattern, or just enjoy the pages of artistic eye candy! This booklet has several pictures of styles from the many eras as influenced by art deco and flapper trends. --PLEASE NOTE, this booklet contains only illustrations of descriptions of patterns. There are no actual sewing patterns in this booklet. TRIGGER WARNING: This booklet contains imagery that some may consider culturally insensitive, or cultural appropriation. While this was a common practice in the era when this material was published, that does not make it any less hurtful to some cultures or groups, both when it was published, and today. We have included these images in this material for research purposes only, but we in no way wish to condone cultural appropriation or reductive, hurtful stereotypes. ============================================ INSTANT DOWNLOAD: Your purchase will be available for download the second your payment clears through Etsy. Simply follow the email sent to you, or click on , then and under your receipt, . ============================================ Printing a PDF is easy. Just open, hit print, and make sure that your printer scale is set to 100% (this should be the default setting in most cases). Copyright 2012 Mrs. Depew Vintage.
Vintage Download of Halloween Greetings Perfect for DIY Cards and Projects. This listing includes an instantly downloadable printable digital file. After purchase, you will be able to instantly download the digital artwork. You will receive a High Resolution JPG File. Digital arts Gallery Watermark will not appear on your purchase. You can print from your home, but for best quality we suggest you print at your local print shop, or your favorite online printing company. This is for a digital download – nothing will be shipped! Each monitor displays colors differently, therefore, color may vary from monitor to monitor. Thank you so much!
It's nearly Halloween time, and I'm sure you're all thinking about (or working feverishly on) your costumes! Halloween can be a weird time for historical costumers. We costume all year long, and have closets full of outfits already, so why make something totally new? Here are
Images of Halloween from years gone by; old-fashioned greeting cards and seasonal advertising.
Your face doesn't have to be the center piece of the costume - use your hands!
Many people keep a bowl of candy by the door during Halloween for the many trick-or-treaters that come calling on October 31st. But if anybody turns up on your doorstep dressed like anyone in the pictures below, it's not candy you're going to need. No, it's a crucifix and a bottle of holy water. Because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these vintage Halloween costumes are absolutely terrifying.
The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties, and when they needed a spectacular outfit for the ball, they turned to these prolific costume designers.
Classic Clown Hat - Black and White Circus Costume - Halloween Costume - Cirque Costume - Retro Circus - Vintage Clown Hat This classic clown hat is perfect for plays, burlesque acts, vaudeville, you name it- any time you need that perfect retro look. it stands 12" inches high and is constructed at a tilt. It is made with a buckram and wire base and had been covered in two layers of fabric, the top being a dull white satin. it has three little pom poms up the front. Simple and effective! It slides on to a black satin headband and you can position it any way you want. I use only the most comfortable headbands around. One size fits all! This listing is for the hat only. The cuffs and collar are available in separate listings. Other colors available- just ask. The photos are of the incredible designer, Charlotte Olympia, and I was very honored that she would choose Batcakes for her Halloween costumes! Shipping Policy: All items are sent through the US Postal Service first class with tracking. Please convo for shipping upgrades. Please check out the rest of my store policies for information about Rush Orders, Custom Orders, and my Return Policy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BatcakesCouture/policy?ref=shopinfo_policies_leftnav Just contact me if you need it for a certain date. PLEASE NOTE MY STORE POLICIES: I am not a costume rental shop. I must be contacted THE NEXT DAY if you are not completely pleased with your purchase. Items must be sent back within TWO DAYS and you must provide me with tracking. If you have ordered as a rush and give a date that you need it and then contact me after that date- that also negates any returns. I am not responsible for the USPS or FEDEX for not getting your items to you in time as long as I have held up my end of the deal and gotten them out in time. I have PERFECT ratings here at Etsy. I work very very hard and am a meticulous fabricator. I totally understand if something doesn't suit you after you try it on and you need to return- but open that box and try it on! Remember- I am one person working as hard as I can to make you be the hit of the party! ATTENTION ALL CLIENTS: I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING FOR MORE THAN ONE CROWN. This applies to all foreign shipping and to domestic clients that want express shipping as well. Just contact me.
The Bizarre. The Scary. The Macabre.
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THREE DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE THESE FUN AND FABULOUS VINTAGE DECO FLAPPER HALLOWEEN COSTUMES! We have acquired masses of Halloween paper ephemera over the years--and it's your luck we are sharing them with you! Ha ha. Both images size--10.5" x 6.48" You are purchasing an incredibly sharp, clear, digital image scanned at a high resolution, 300dpi in jpg form. Once payment is received, you will be able to INSTANTLY DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE. Our images can fit on 8.5 x 11 paper. **THE ANNOYING WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON YOUR DOWNLOAD** What fabulous things can you create? Announcements, Invitations, and place cards, (think wedding, engagements, baby!) Paper Arts: Jewelry: Used on transfers: Print and Frame For: Greeting cards Earrings Tee-shirts Baby's Nursery Stationery Bracelets Tote bags Child's Room Bookmarks Necklaces Pillows Wall Decor Gift tags Napkins Scrapbooking Dish towels Altered Art Ribbons Card Making And any magical thing your artistic bent can create! The Fine Print (No pun intended) Do's Do make fantastico art with our digital delights! Don'ts Do not use our images in digital collage sheets, resell them, reproduce them in a compilation cd for resale, or share them with buddies. We and our little elves work tirelessly to ferret out special pieces of paper ephemera, which we then scan and restore to perfection for the discerning creative customer. Taking our work and reselling or redistributing is not only bad form, it angers our little pals. And you don't want to make an elf mad! So please refrain from practices that you would not want done to your artwork. Thank you!
Full size here. This is a sort of blanket response to the questions I get this time every year about what various Lackadaisy characters would wear for Halloween. I thought of dressing them up as...
Every year the mail carrier delivers one of those fliers for Halloween costumes and my face contorts the moment I see it. Since when do we need a sexy Alice in Wonderland? How does being a femaiile Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle require a green tutu? Why are all the skirts way above the knees? And why are …
Get your spook on this Halloween!
Well, I might have been stitching up to the last day, but I did finish my utterly ridiculously Pierrot clown costume. Here it is, in all its silliness: From my initial post about this project, I decided to go further into lunacy by making the onesie
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Have a great Halloween! Hope your holiday circle skirt collection has something as fun as this for you to wear today.
You know the trend: Every year on Halloween, adults turn even the most innocuous sounding costumes into lust-fueled fantasies. Sultry Santa? Done. Sexy re...
A wonderful collection of vintage Halloween photos from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Featuring Halloween costumes worn by Generation X.
In honor of the Eclipse c.1924 masquerade party costumes of the sun and the moon
History is riddled with all kinds of creepy, grotesque, and downright disturbing events. Thanks to the magical artistic medium known as photography, some of those chilling and gawk-worthy moments and fascinating people have been immortalized on film and collected here in the pages that follow.
You don't want to be that person at the costume party. You know, the one who's scrawled some whiskers across their cheek to be a last minute black cat, or just turned up with a sheet over their head and declared it a costume. But we also aren't ones for perusing overpriced, polyester outfits in a cr
Warning: This post is all trick and no treat.
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If you are like me and you have a closet full of vintage style clothing and historical costumes, Halloween is just another day to dress up in one of them. Sounds boring until I put a little spooky spin on them, and suddenly my ordinary clothes become creative vintage Halloween costumes! Need ideas on how
Twitter user Alina Pleskova found a book on the curb and decided to rescue it, bringing it back home with her. She couldn't help but share the photos...
Get creeped out easily? Enjoy this dump of vintage old creepy photos that'll out a great scare into your wicked soul.
Spectacular front cover of an old 1930s magazine--I adore the costumes and masks on their faces, on of my most favorite illustration in my collection--but then, I think that about almost all of them! Adorable for framing, and for your scrapbooking, altered art, and paper projects! Total image size--8.16" x 9.7" You are purchasing an incredibly sharp, clear, digital image scanned at a high resolution, 300dpi in jpg form. Once payment is received, you will be able to INSTANTLY DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE. Our images can fit on 8.5 x 11 paper. **THE ANNOYING WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON YOUR DOWNLOAD** What fabulous things can you create? Announcements, Invitations, and place cards, (think wedding, engagements, baby!) Paper Arts: Jewelry: Used on transfers: Print and Frame For: Greeting cards Earrings Tee-shirts Baby's Nursery Stationery Bracelets Tote bags Child's Room Bookmarks Necklaces Pillows Wall Decor Gift tags Napkins Scrapbooking Dish towels Altered Art Ribbons Card Making And any magical thing your artistic bent can create! The Fine Print (No pun intended) Do's Do make fantastico art with our digital delights! Don'ts Do not use our images in digital collage sheets, resell them, reproduce them in a compilation cd for resale, or share them with buddies. We and our little elves work tirelessly to ferret out special pieces of paper ephemera, which we then scan and restore to perfection for the discerning creative customer. Taking our work and reselling or redistributing is not only bad form, it angers our little pals. And you don't want to make an elf mad! So please refrain from practices that you would not want done to your artwork. Thank you!
These are cleaned up and perfected scans from our original Dennison Bogie Books from the 1920s and earlier. So hard to find, and when you do, soooo expensive, the gorgeous decorations and crepe paper costumes from these sought after books are now available in perfect sharp condition. From our extensive Halloween paper ephemera collection. Adorable for framing, and for your scrapbooking, altered art, and paper projects! Total image size--6.397" x 10" You are purchasing an incredibly sharp, clear, digital image scanned at a high resolution, 300dpi in jpg form. Once payment is received, you will be able to INSTANTLY DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE. Our images can fit on 8.5 x 11 paper. The image can be resized to your specifications. **THE ANNOYING WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON YOUR DOWNLOAD** What fabulous things can you create? Announcements, Invitations, and place cards, (think wedding, engagements, baby!) Paper Arts: Jewelry: Used on transfers: Print and Frame For: Greeting cards Earrings Tee-shirts Baby's Nursery Stationery Bracelets Tote bags Child's Room Bookmarks Necklaces Pillows Wall Decor Gift tags Napkins Scrapbooking Dish towels Altered Art Ribbons Card Making And any magical thing your artistic bent can create! The Fine Print (No pun intended) Do's Do make fantastico art with our digital delights! Don'ts Do not use our images in digital collage sheets, resell them, reproduce them in a compilation cd for resale, or share them with buddies. We and our little elves work tirelessly to ferret out special pieces of paper ephemera, which we then scan and restore to perfection for the discerning creative customer. Taking our work and reselling or redistributing is not only bad form, it angers our little pals. And you don't want to make an elf mad! So please refrain from practices that you would not want done to your artwork. Thank you!
