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Halloween is a holiday celebrated in the United States and parts of Europe on the 31st of every October. In the past centuries, Halloween was a day marked by the Celtics for the ending of the harvest season. It marked when the world of the living and dead would intersect, leaving way for the dead to cross over to the world of the living to wreak havoc among their crops and health. Thusly, on the day of Halloween, the Celts would create attires such as masks and costumes to frighten and ward off the dead. However, in the later 19th century, the day earmarked for warding off the dead had reinvented itself into a form of children’s holiday.
In this century, the concept of Halloween has greatly changed as it has become a holiday celebrated by people of all ages and cultures in the United States. Today, Halloween entails dressing up, going from door to door and asking for a treat. Though the celebration of Halloween has not vanished over the years, costumes have suffered a great transformation. Costume design no long embodies an imagery of scariness, wonderland fantasy, and idol-ism, but an image referable to a noun and to attract the opposite sex.
Though anything in society today, from a plug on the wall to soda cans, is a design, and is design, Halloween costume design today has interestingly shifted from what was once a garment designed to ward off evil during a religious ritual into an altered garment designed to showcase bodily parts and hold sexual connotations.
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