Tag: Fancy dress

Vintage Halloween Costumes

Some Halloween costume ideas from the 1920’s/30’s/40’s.

There are Witches, Devils, Bats, Spiders and costumes with Halloween colours, so plenty of inspiration.

Some of these would have been made with crepe paper which can be sewn.

Have Fun.

Victorian and Edwardian Halloween Steampunk Ideas: Part Three

A few other costume ideas with a Halloween, spooky theme to them.

This site is a great vintage fancy dress resource. Worth a look.

https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy

Spiders.

  • 1900’s

  • 1890’s
  • Early 1900’s
  • 1860’s

Other Ideas

1900’s. I do like the cabbage and pumpkin dresses.
Rook, 1890’s
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
Something for the gents. 19th century
  • Owl, 1900’s
  • Locust,1890’s
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
Willow the Wisp, 1900’s
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
  • Not sure, Eagle perhaps. 1900’s
  • Black Lady, 1900’s
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
1880’s. Some sort of insect I think.
  • Owl, late 19th century
  • X-Ray, late 19th century
  • 1880’s.
    Who doesn’t want a lobster dress.

Victorian and Edwardian Steampunk Costume Ideas: Part 2

Devil’s and Bat’s

1890’s
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
  • 1900’s
  • Late 19th century
  • 1860’s
  • Late 19th century
  • 1880’s
  • 1880’s
  • 1890’s
  • 1900’s
  • Late 19th century
  • 1860’s
  • Late 19th century
  • 1890’s
  • 1890’s
  • 1890’s
  • Late 19th, early 20th century
  • Early 20th century
  • 1880’s
  • 1900’s
  • Late 19th, early 20th century
  • 1880’s
  • 1880’s
  • 1900’s
  • 1900’s

  • 1890’s

Victorian and Edwardian Steampunk Halloween Costume Ideas

We tend to think fancy dress is fairly new yet people have been disguising themselves for hundreds if not thousands of years for various reasons, including just to have fun.

The Victorians and Edwardians were no exception.

Some I’ve come across would make interesting Halloween costumes.

I only wish I had the dressmaking skills to try and make some of these.

Witches/Sorceress/Night

1896, Fancy Dress Book by Ardern Holt 
  • Early 1900’s
  • 1876, La Monde Ilustree
  • Late 19th, early 20th century
  • 1885
  • Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century
  • Late19th century
  • Early 1900’s
  • 1860’s. Designed by Léon Sault
Late 19th century
1896
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
  • L’Art et La Mode 1890
  • Late 19th century
1911
1900’s
1900’s
  • 1860’s
Late 19th/early 20th century
  • Late 19th century
  • 1880’s
1890’s

https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
Late 19th/early 20th century
Late 19th century
Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century

Steampunk Urania/Night Costume Ideas

A few more Victorian/Edwardian fancy dress costume ideas.

Urania, Goddess of Astronomy, late 19th Century.
Night, late 19th Century.
Another Night costume, from the 1860s.

1860s crinoline Night costume.

Late 19th century. Representation of Night.
Late 19th/early 20th century.
1880s/1890s. Nice starry costume

1880s, long train on this one.

1880s/1890s.
1880s, Astronomy costume.
1880s Saturn Costume.
Early 20th century Star costume.
Early 20th century Sun costume.
Urania, mid 19th century.
Late 19th early 20th century.
Late 19th century.
Late 20th century.

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Steampunk Astronomy Costume Ideas: A few more

The Victorians and Edwardians certainly liked costume parties.

I’ve come across some interesting themes, but will stick to those with Astronomical elements.

Some appear to represent The Night. These are from the late 19th early 20th century.

They seem to be dresses with Stars/Moons, appliqued or sewn on. One looks like the design has been painted on.

A few ideas to try maybe.

Late 19th Century. Veil of stars with a central jewelled starry headpiece.
Late 19th early 20th Century. Star studded dress with starry accessories.

Early 20th Century. This comes with a sheer cloak decorated with stars and a crescent Moon staff.
Late 19th early 20th Century. Rows of stars and Moons ornament these two delightful costumes.
Early 20th Century. It looks like this design has been painted on to the dress and shoes.
Late 19th early 20th Century. Two starry ladies.
Late 19th Century. Possibly the white dress is Day, the black dress appears to be Night with a starry sash and headpiece.
Early 20th Century. Night and Day costume with Sun, Moon and Stars.
Early 20th Century. An elaborate Night and Day fancy dress costume. I like the bats.
Early 20th Century. A stunning jewelled Star headpiece.

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Astronomy/Space Themed Steampunk Ideas

Whilst perusing the internet over the last year, I’ve come across a lot of interesting costume ideas.

I love wearing costumes myself and have put together a few steampunk themed outfits over the years. So I thought I’d put a few ideas down on my blog.

These images are from Les etoiles; derniere feerie and Astronomie des dames 1847, by J.J.Grandville. https://archive.org/details/lesetoilesdernie00mery/page/n16/mode/2up

J.J.Grandville
“Peregrinations of a Comet” 1844
Punch Cartoon by Linley Sambourne 1874
Punch Magazine 1874 drawn by Linley Sambourne
La Astronomie 1880 fancy dress. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
Saturn 1880 fancy dress by Léon Sault

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