Dressing Up

By Author: Jerry Niles
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Costumes play an important part of special events, holidays, and entertainment as they let the wearer and the viewer to have a much better experience of the given situation. Such as the clown suit the clown wore who made you a balloon animal during your birthday or the cowboy who was riding the stallion down the street while you were watching a parade from the sidewalk. Costumes allows people to play out their imaginations and fantasies to however they wish and allows for them to appreciate the given situation many times more if there was no costume involved.

During a sports game there may be a mascot character that appears before an audience to try to rally them up to cheer for their team to win the match, or during the Christmas season there would be many people in Santa Claus outfits to try and spread the holiday cheer. Costumes allow a person to enjoy the ambiance of the occasion a lot more than it would have been if there was no one in costume.

Movies, plays, musicals, and operas wouldn't be the same without a costume or as it is more commonly known, a wardrobe. Imagine trying to watch a classical opera ...
... with the singers wearing 21st century New York street clothing or a science-fiction action film that takes place deep in space with the actors in business attire. As amusing it may be, it wouldn't give the same sense of enjoyment and suspense as it would have if they were wearing frilly dresses and suits or clothing that seems futuristic and allows for the addition of alien creatures.

Probably the biggest holiday that revolves almost entirely on costumes is on All Hallows' Eve or as it is more commonly known, Halloween. While the majority are young children and teenagers, adults are also known to participate by dressing up in a costume to celebrate on this pagan holiday. People dress up in a variety of costumes such as protagonists from their favorite stories such a super hero or a princess from a magical kingdom to series clothing that reflects upon a certain type of stereotype in the general public like a French maid or sumo wrestler to a costume that may portray their interests such as a certain person from history, an object of interest or an animal of interest.

Other holidays where it involves people to dress up include but are not limited to Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter. You wouldn't feel the same holiday cheer if you didn't see someone dressed up as Santa Clause or his elves that work in the toy shop at the North Pole. Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same if you didn't see a person dressed up as a pilgrim or an Indian and Easter would definitely be ruined if the Easter Bunny didn't make an appearance.

Costumes allow for a person to enjoy a movie, a special event, and holidays to a much fuller extent and can leave positive memories for us to cherish in the future.

Jerry Niles
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