Tips To Find Your Halloween Costume

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Tips To Find Your Halloween Costume

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Costume design often encompasses all shapes, sizes, colors, fabrics, accessories and levels of craftsmanship. This concept is most evident in the Renaissance Halloween costume choices, which can cost as little as $20 or as much as $1400. Whether you want to win a costume contest or buy a corset for everyday use, there are scores of places on the internet that will be happy to accommodate you or your children with time period clothing.

If you’re looking for more than a cheaply made Halloween costume and want something that looks professional, from a theater performance, a movie or a Renaissance festival, then you can buy custom, high-quality, historically accurate Renaissance costumes at www.verymerryseamstress.com. If you’re looking to pay less than $155 for your adult costume, then you’ll want to order cotton fabric, rather than twill or satin. The “Reversible Peasant Package” is very popular because it embodies the traditional “Renaissance” apparel with a strapped front-laced bodice in any two colors, a cotton skirt and matching wrist bracer, with or without the short chemise.

You can add any number of accessories from skirts, sashes or headpieces. Made of cotton and sans chemise, the package is just $99 but it ranges to $195 for twill material, with a short chemise included. The next category up from the Peasant Packages are the Merchant Packages from $155 - $250, which are simple and middle class Renaissance, yet stylish nonetheless, with chemise, skirt, brocade purse and sash. If you would like to dress as an aristocrat, then you can find “court” apparel ranging in price from $251 - $300, or nobility for $351 and higher. For instance, you can dress as Jane Grey or Mary Tudor for $1300 - $1400 with a costume made of silk, lace, pearl, faux fur and jacquard.

At www.medievalcollectibles.com you will find a great selection of renaissance costumes. Fans of “The Tudors” on Showtime will love the high quality, two-piece “Anne Boleyn Gown” with its golden champagne floral fabric and burgundy lined sleeves, for $270. The Renaissance maiden Halloween costume includes a corset with attached sleeves, a skirt, with attached sash, drape and headpiece for $187.50. By contrast, you can buy a “Lady Guinevere” green velvet dress and headpiece for just $62.50. Men can also choose between “Robin Hood” and “Lancelot” for under $70. For kids costumes, your daughter can be a princess or your son can be a Renaissance pirate for $20-$40.

If you’re looking for a costume for Halloween or a Renaissance fair, you must first decide upon a character. Peasants will wear lighter, cheaper fabrics in aprons and tankards, while royalty dresses in heavier silks and velvets. You can sew your own basic chemise or skirt if you’re particularly handy with a sewing machine and then simply buy a few accessories, like a lace-up bodice or corset. To look your best, it’s worth it to pay a little more for your Halloween costume. Nothing is worse than seams busting, hems unraveling and buttons flying while you’re trying to impress.

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