Halloween costumes are clothes worn on or around October 31, the date of Halloween.

Costuming became trendy for Halloween parties in America in the early 1900s, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming famous in the United States.

What sets Halloween costumes distant from costumes for other occasions or days of dressing up is that they are often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents or film, television and cartoon characters. Another popular trend is for women (and in some cases, men) to use Halloween as an excuse to wear mainly revealing costumes, showing off more skin than would be socially acceptable otherwise. Apart from these, you may find hot Halloween costumes, adult Halloween costumes and womens Halloween costumes like sexy pirate costumes, ladies genie costume, adult fairy costumes, etc.