How You Can Make a Statement With Your Halloween Costume

Halloween is around the corner. It's time to plan a party with your family and friends that is load with fun and excitement. But like any other year, what can make this year's Halloween fabulous and exciting are the 2013 Halloween costumes that you and your friends will don during the party. If you are feeling jittery because you have not yet decided on what to wear, fear not because there are a lot of creative and inexpensive costumes you can choose from.

This article aims to give you some tips on how to find that eye-catching 2013 Halloween costumes that can definitely make this year's party memorable.

* Go with your own personality and style. Are you feeling sexy nowadays? Maybe you can be in a maid Halloween costume that can flaunt your long legs and curvaceous body. This is the best time for you to let go of your shyness and project that sexiness that you have always wanted to show other people. Do you want to explore your darker side? Maybe you can explore some gothic features such as vampires, wicked wizards or some other evil personalities.

* Determine the budget you want to spend on your Halloween costume. Before you go out hunting for that perfect Halloween costume, you need to know what price range you should be focusing on while shopping. Make sure that you consider both the actual costume itself and any other accessories you will need to complete the look. Don't use your total budget on the main costume alone. Spare some for the shoes, makeup and other accessories that you may need to buy. Always be on the lookout for discounts or sales so you can buy more stuff with your budget. If you are not able to find any discounted costumes, you can always check the internet and your local newspapers for any coupons or gift cards you can use to lower the price you have to pay.

Halloween History

Halloween has origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain [pronounced: sow- wen] (Irish pronunciation) from the Old Irish samhain, possibly derived from Gaulish samonios).The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Celts believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks being worn at Halloween goes back to the Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.

Origin of name

The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All Hallows’ Even ("All Hallows' Eve") [eve is an abbreviation of even, an older word for evening. Halloween gets -een as a contraction of even to e'en], from the Old English term eallra hālgena ǣfen meaning "All Hallow' Evening", as it is the eve of "All Hallows’ Day", which is now also known as All Saints’ Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the 9th century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day.

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