Weird and wonderful family to create your Halloween outfits around. You might prefer to choose a character for your Halloween Fancy Dress that no one knows about one, this avoiding having someone dressed the same as you at the fancy dress Ball. However Halloween outfits are all about being both individual and familiar, so that strategy often won't do.
For, most Halloween parties most people choose costumes that are well known characters and add there own personal touches. Most of the popular fact and fictional characters require little touch ups to become Halloween Costumes. This can be done for one of the truly ghouly fictional cast of characters: The Addams Family.
The Addams Family, are eccentric and elegantly macabre, was the one of the earliest parodies of the "ideal American family".
They were the brain child of cartoonist Charles Addams back in the 1930s. In this period, America was celebrating values like manners, material wealth, and the neatly sized family of a father, mother, son, daughter, and pet.
The, Addams satirized these values by creating an eccentric, macabre family that maintained all the superficial standards of the American ideal, but were completely unaware of how bizarre their lifestyles seemed to outsiders.
The characters created by Charles Addams for his family included Morticia, Uncle Fester, Gomez, Lurch, Grandma, Wednesday, and several others. The delightfully odd family originally appeared in a series of single panel cartoons. These were published in the New Yorker from 1938 until Charles Addams died in 1988.
Since that time, the Addams Family has appeared in a range of other forms, including TV series, movies, video games, pinball machines, musicals, and not least of all, in the Halloween costumes worn by many families during the Halloween Party season.
The characters naturally make for fantastic
Halloween Outfits For example, the Uncle Fester costume. The character is pale, bald, and barrel shaped and his eyes are dark and sunken. He has a wide, mischievous and deranged grin. Forever seen wearing an enormous fur trench coat. He has some strange abilities that make for interesting Halloween costume possibilities. For example, Uncle Fester can apparently conduct electricity, as he is frequently seen lighting a bulb by placing it in his mouth. Fester has also been shown to be almost impervious to harm. Cannonballs bounce harmlessly off his head. While a real weapon or heavy object wouldn't be advised, Halloween-goers have used soft plastic weapons to add to their Uncle Fester costumes. All these little pieces have historically made an Uncle Fester costume a hit at Halloween parties for years.
One of the favourite Addams Family characters for the ladies is the excellent Fancy Dress costume: Morticia Addams. Often described as a "vamp", Morticia is very pale. Her hair is very long and black. She typically wears tight fitting black dresses. Such a description might make a Morticia costume seem too generic, but by including some of Morticia's more particular practices, the costume becomes one of a kind. Take, for example, Morticia's habit of applying baking powder instead of actual makeup. Consider also her penchant for roses. Morticia is often seen picking up a rose, cutting off the bud, and discarding it, keeping only the stem. These qualities make a Morticia costume unique.
Because of their unique take on classic Halloween motifs, combined with real cultural commentary, the Addams Family makes creating Halloween outfits a fun, fantastic event.
