The Effects of Fashion Style in Halloween Traditions
Halloween is one of the most awaited holidays of the year aside from Christmas. Children and adults love Halloween festivities because of costume parties, trick or treating and spooky decors. Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of 31st of October.
The history of Halloween is inspired by customs and traditions like any other holidays of the year. It is one of the oldest and most celebrated holidays around the globe. The word itself Halloween is derived from the Catholic celebration of All Saints Day in November 1 or All Hallows Day. The origins of Halloween started in Celtic feast called Samhain. Samhain is a festival celebrated to end the harvest season of Gaelic customs. It is also a feast for Roman goddess Pomona, goddess of fruits and vegetables. Celtics believe that on the night of October 31st, the boundaries between the living and the dead crossed each other. It is also believed that good and evil spirits freely room around the Earth. The festivity is celebrated to invite the good spirits in their homes and to keep away evil spirits that causes havoc to their lives.
Villagers during this time of the year wear costumes to disguise themselves as evil spirits to keep them away. They wear costumes like ghosts, ghouls, goblins, witches and other scary costumes. This is the reason behind the Halloween costumes that is passed on until today. However, with today's fashion world, Halloween costumes have evolved over the years. It changes the true meaning of wearing Hallowing costumes.
Nowadays, Halloween is sought after my most children because they can wear their favorite costumes and lots of goodies and treats. Recent study shows, more and more adults participating Halloween parties. Adults says that this the only time of the year where they can wear their favorite costumes without be judged and ridiculed by others.
The effects of fashion style in Halloween costume is greatly appreciated by many adults. The reason behind is that adults can live their dreams and fantasies into reality for just one night. With the great influence of fashion style, many fashion designers created costumes that will feed their fantasies. Whether it may be a childhood fantasy of becoming a superhero or a sexy and seductive vixen wearing a playboy bunny costume, Halloween costumes helps in boosting their self-esteem.
Fashion style in a way has negative and positive effects in Halloween costumes and traditions. The negative effect of fashion style in today's Halloween costume has lost its main purpose of driving away evil spirits that causes chaos to our lives. However, today's generation no longer believed that evil spirits can actually cause trouble to person's life. With the help of fashion industry, Halloween has evolved to help a person live up their fantasies of being sexy, beautiful, funny, scary and powerful through wearing costumes. You can find a variety of Halloween costumes and accessories from costume wigs or clown wigs to a dashing sexy vampire costume that allures every male or female they come into contact with.
Halloween is a night full of fun and fantasies. Enjoy every moment of it because you only have few hours of living your fantasy into reality.
