Mardi Gras Costume Ideas
Need a fun Mardi Gras costume for 2010? New Mardi Gras Costume Ideas can make you popular as well as a favorite one among friends and adults, alike. For the upcoming Mardi Gras festivities everybody is in search of a new costume befitting Mardi Gras parties, events, and parades. You may want to try out one of the unique costume ideas in order to ensure that you and your better half steps into a party and instantly becomes the centers of attention. And if the costumes you choose is perceived as the most unique of the costumes being worn; you can naturally take pride is being among the best dressed.
Masquerade Ball Queen Adult Costume
As Mardi Gras approaches, almost all the design houses are introducing new lines of costumes for the festivities. Mardi Gras costumes are worn with masks, and beads for the special parades, parties, and family events associated with Mardi Gras. Although it is a fun filled event, many people will experiment with different types of fancy dresses and outfits that reflect their creativity. Special costumes are ordered for Mardi Gras which are usually made with bright colors. Feathered or plastic masks in different colors such as green, gold and purple are used along with the costumes to hide ones identity. The costumes are usually flamboyant and outrageous.
Mardi Gras Queen Adult Costume
There are a number of accessories to consider as you put your Mardi Gras costume together. Masks, beads, feathers, boas along with other gaudy jewelry are usually used during the festive events as part of the outfits. Ideas for dresses, outfits, and masks can be easily obtained from costume stores that offer numerous costumes for the different Mardi Gras events. Do not forget a good old home made dress or outfit could also be used for the purpose.
Mardi Gras Jester Adult Costume male
A good choice of clothes for Mardi Gras are outfits from the French Revolution period. There are a number of royal fancy dresses that are preferred by some of the women attending Mardi Gras. Men may consider dressing up as a king. To keep mystery as an element of your identity consider wearing a mask with feathers. The traditional Mardi Gras costume can not be complete without a mask. An alternative to wearing a mask is face painting. If a French Revolution dress or a fancy dress is not to your liken then any kind of costume will do with some beads and colored feathered masks. You may consider costumes such as fairy costume, a jester costume, a queen, a king, a clown, a buccaneer, or even a pirate. The feathered mask come in colors such as gold, black, blue, purple, silver, etc.
While coming up with a Mardi Gras costume idea, it is necessary to remember the two main components of the festival are fun and mystery. A Mardi Gras costume acquires a different dimension with the usage of different types of masks. A showgirl feather mask, for example, can be used with any of the French Revolution or fancy dress costumes. Both men and women may consider one of those multi-colored jester costume which says fun fun!!
Wigs of different varieties also can be used but it is necessary to see that it does not interfere with the strap of the feather mask.
Masks on sticks can solve this problem to some degree and can be used when wigs are placed on the hair. Therefore, Mardi Gras costumes are all about experimenting with different types of fancy dresses and accessories such as masks and beads.
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebrations draw thousands of tourists to the city that mingle at the famed parties and parades. As many as a half-million spectators have been estimated to line the route of the major parades. The first Mardi Gras festivities in Louisiana were held on March 3, 1699. On that day, a group of French explorers set up camp on the west bank of the Mississippi River, about 60 miles downriver from what is now New Orleans. The spot was dubbed La Pointe du Mardi Gras by the group’s leader, Pierre Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville. The Rex organization put a marker at the Louisiana site about three hundred years later. An account from 1743 notes that the custom of holding Carnival balls was established by that date, during the time when Bienville was governor. On Mardi Gras, there were masques and processions in the streets of the city. Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, a rich plantation owner, in 1833, raised the money for an official Mardi Gras celebration. The first Mardi Gras parade was held in 1857 by the Mistick Krewe of Comus. Comus is the oldest continuously active Mardi Gras organization.
In 1875 the state of Louisiana declared Mardi Gras a legal holiday. Economic, political, and weather conditions sometimes led to the cancellation of some or all of the major parades, especially during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II, but Carnival has always been observed in the city in some way.
New Orleans Mardi Gras Costumes
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