Gone are the days of throwing a sheet over yourself and calling it a toga. With the plethora of books and movies for inspiration, these Roman, Mythical and Greek costume ideas have reached epic proportions.
If you have muscles to show off, a Spartacus costume is a brilliant idea. Another amazing idea is Medusa. The different versions of Medusa featured here are actually breathtaking. For a couple costume idea, you can bring along a stone victim like someone here did.
In addition, you will find an adorable baby Cupid, awesome Centaur costumes and a woman who transformed herself into a singing harp.
Even more idea include Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena – names that roll off your tongue.
Another cool option is to make DIY costumes out of recycled material. You will see gladiators, crusaders, knights and princess costumes that have interestingly all been made out of beer bottle packaging.
So whether you transform into a Satyr, unicorn or human statue, you will find all the homemade costume inspiration you need here.
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Amazing Hand Made Art Deco Medusa Costume
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Beautiful Homemade White Satyr Costume for a Girl
Here’s the story behind our beautiful Satyr costume. We always make my daughters costumes and try to top ourselves the next year. This year my daughter actually wanted to be Poison Ivy which I was pretty excited about, but, my older daughter wanted to be a centaur for Halloween. We were not sure how well she would be able to get up stairs to trick or treat and didn’t want her to miss that part of trick or treating, so… Read more »
Awesome Homemade Fantasia Centaurette Costume
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