Halloween vintage costume

"Fancy Dresses Described : Or, What To Wear At Fancy Balls" Not in copyright.

Crepe paper costume in envelope

Before mass-produced costumes entered the scene, Halloween costumes were a lot more…creative. Forced to make their own masks, dresses, and props–often using highly questionable crafting…

Back in the day, kids (and adults) just did not get the concept of masks and how to match them up to a costume. Actually, some of them bypassed the masks all ...

Cyber-collector of early-to-mid 20th Century cultural imagery and artifacts.

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Fancy dress

TWO PAGES together for less than the regular cost of two separate images! These are cleaned up and perfected scans from our original Dennison Bogie Books from the 1920s and earlier. So hard to find, and when you do, soooo expensive, the gorgeous decorations and crepe paper costumes from these sought after books are now available in perfect sharp condition. From our extensive Halloween paper ephemera collection. Adorable for framing, and for your scrapbooking, altered art, and paper projects…