Girls Costumes

By Author: Faye Reynolds
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Little girls love playing dress up. From the time they are toddlers rummaging through the toy box looking for girls costumes and getting “dressed up” is an activity that is never boring to them. Little girls seem to naturally be drawn to role-playing by using their imagination for make-believe. Child development experts believe that role-play helps children acquire all kinds of knowledge and skills because it involves the child’s emotion, language, cognition, and sensory motor skills. Girls costumes range from frilly princess, delightful angels, or exotic Arabian or Egyptian looks, historical costumes, ladybugs and bumble bees, black clad witches, super heroes such as Mrs. Incredible, Power Rangers, Super girl, or Spider girl, pop-culture based costumes such as movie heroine characters and current TV shows, Barbie doll outfits to Biblical or occupational looks. The numerous selections can make your head spin.

An upcoming Halloween party is often the impetus to start looking for girls Halloween costumes, and why not! Girls ...
... love to go trick-or-treating or to a Halloween party all dressed up in awesome outfits. Parents will have ample opportunities to take lots of pictures and videos as their little ones toddle off for their first Halloween night dressed in a sweet bumblebee, butterfly, or princess girls costume. And before you know it, there is your tween or teen, with a group of friends wearing crazy Goth or vampire outfits leaving for a Halloween party.

But girls dress up costumes are so handy for other occasions as well. School plays and other classroom projects often require dressing up. What fun it would be to read a report on a historical event while wearing a girls costume appropriate for that period. In fact, the range of historic based girl costume designs is very broad ranging from prehistoric times through the Greek and Romans to the Renaissance, and onto the more recent past decades such as the roaring 1920’s, the cool 50’s, hippie 60’s, disco 70’s, and the punk, rocking 80’s. In addition, there are a variety of occupational outfits such as doctors and nurses, zookeeper, sailor, and police person that might come in handy for a school play.

Whether your child is a dainty little princess who loves anything that is pink or a more, active-loving tomboy where anything that is frilly is dismissed with a frown, there are numerous girls costumes that will thrill them.

Once you and your child have selected a few girls costumes read the description of what is included in each “look.” Often you will find that you need to purchase additional items to create the incredible look you see pictured. Accessories, hats, masks, and wigs really do finish-to-perfection any girls costume. If you have a number of kids and can’t afford to buy each child a new Halloween costume every year, a new accessory could freshen up that hand-me-down costume. Wigs, hats, and other accessories are great for making an old costume into a new one!

If cost is an issue, consider an Internet site such as the Wholesale Costume Club. At this unique store, you will never have to pay retail prices once you become a club member. The savings you gain in their lower members’ prices more than makes up for their $5.00 annual fee. Keep your camera handy whenever your little girl decides to wants to put on some girls costumes to play dress up. Those special moments are so fleeting.