The Oldest and Weirdest Halloween Costumes
Halloween has a centuries-old tradition, which only relatively recently began to mean the entertainment nature of the holiday. By the way, the pumpkin as an indispensable attribute was also added by the Americans to European culture much later, and old photographs of the holiday tell us that several decades ago some costumes looked truly terrifying.
We have selected the most interesting options, let's see how the history of the Halloween costume has developed.
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1. Let's start with plants: fly agaric mushrooms, dangerous in every sense.
2. Cabbage costume.
3. "Fabulous" cockerel.
4. "Bacon" 1894.
5. Scary dolls.
6. In theory, quite a friendly ghost named Casper.
7. In those days, Disney characters did not gain widespread popularity, and costume ideas appeared in the fantasies of the authors themselves, and not on movie screens or magazine pages. In this case, the costume turned out to be the head of an animal.
8. An ominous installation that symbolizes the hospital, but it's just a "clown kit" from 1924.
9. It is difficult to define the concept of this duet, but the costumes look extremely intimidating.
10. The embodiment of a terrible nightmare - a giant mosquito on a bicycle!
11. It's hard to believe, but here the costumes symbolize ... cats!
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13. Sometimes a person is easier to plunge into depression than to scare.
14. On the right - Donald Duck ...
15. Children in bunny costumes.
16. Later, sexy elements began to appear in Halloween outfits, but it's hard to say how much more attractive the overall image became ...
17. Suit-eyes.
18. Recognizable characters from the world of Disney.
19. An impressive, but not very clear ensemble from the movie Imagine, released in 1930.
20. "Beautiful" Humpty Dumpty.