Vintage Halloween Costumes

It's Halloween time!!!! And I'm going to miss out on all the fun creepy parties, because I'm going to Rome to perform in Caput Mundi Burlesque Awards. But I think I'll survive... For the rest of you who will spend the weekend celebrating the darkness, here comes a few costume tips - from the good old days!

Bibendums, Montmartre, 1922.

Germany, 1920.

New York City, 1951.

Since I'm flying to Rome today, you will gave to wait for my next post until Tuesday next week. The people I live with are going to have a Halloween party at our apartment, so I'm a bit bummed out about the fact I'm going to miss that one, and get to dress up in something creepy... What costume plans do YOU have for the scariest of holidays?

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Anathema Photography

It's dark, cold and misty outside. And dead leaves are blowing in the wind. It's HALLOWEEN TIME!!! So let's look at some pictures by Anathema Photography! This is not for the faint hearted...

Transformation

Blood Shower Scream

A Woman Scorned

Trophy

The Lovers

Get Out

Speech Therapy

Designer Costuming

Love this one! Modeling is the lovely - and very eloquent - Tristan Risk. Wish I had stockings like that...

Anathema Photography

Gyakutai

Uxia

My Boyfriend's Back

Carving Contest

Eat Me

Consecrated Desecration

Dichotomy

Insidious Biomorph

Separation Anxiety

Gift

Crimson Mermaid

I seriously need to get a shoot with these people!!! Weeeee!!! Anyways...

Happy Halloween!!!

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All Hallow's Eve

We all know Halloween is celebrated on October 31st. But the Swedish All Hallow's Eve is the week after. This is really just a church thing. We decorate the graves of our departed loved ones with candles. Last year I was on my way to a party on this day, and I passed a cemetery. It was so beautiful - hundreds of lit candles on the snowy ground, shining in the darkness - that I just had to take a little walk on the churchyard!

This was the best picture I could find of it. But it doesn't do it justice at all! When it's pitch black outside, and the only thing lighting up the ground is those grave candles, it's like walking through a sea of light! An amazing feeling! But I've always liked cemeteries for the calm feeling they give me...

Anyway...Because of this Swedish All Hallow's Eve, some people celebrate Halloween a week after it's "real" day. Since I had to work through all of Halloween, this was great for me - I got to do some spooky partying after all! The only problem was that I wasn't sure that I would be able to go to the Saturday Halloween party I was invited too, until two days before. So I didn't have time to create an elaborate Halloween costume. I remembered I had some fur fabric leftovers somewhere though. So with this I made some fluffy ears and cuffs for both my wrists and my ankles, and decided to go to the party as The Rockabilly Raccoon!!!

I have to say I felt pretty cute in those ears! 

Shoes of the day - Minna Parikka - with furry ankle cuffs!

The theme of the party was "laboratory", so everything in the apartment was covered in plastic! My sister dressed up as a convict...

...But she was forgiven her crimes, for non other than Jesus Christ joined the party!

Jesus likes beer, by the way...

The drinks were radioactive...

This is what I call lashes!

During the evening we became quite creative - it might had something to do with the presence of Jesus...

I guess most of you have seen Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam":

...But have you seen it with Jesus and The Rockabilly Raccoon?! I don't think so!

For the Halloween picture of the year - where all the guests came together in front of the camera - we naturally chose "The Last Supper"...Or something like that...

Here you can see the rest of the weirdos that attended the party. All I have to say about it is that I had a really good time!