That's right, this year we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Extreme Halloween list of the top Halloween costumes. Each year we have put out a comprehensive list of the top Halloween costumes. We publish this list well in advance of Halloween so that you can make plans and see what's hot and what's not in costumes for the year.
Happy Half-O-Ween and stay tuned for the 2013 Top Halloween Costume List brought to you by our web partner, ExtremeHalloween.com!
It's the video phenomenon that has taken over the internet! The Harlem Shake video craze is all over YouTube. The first Harlem Shake videos started in early February and since then thousands of copycat videos have been made and posted to YouTube. Everyone seems to want to film their own quirky take on this silly video featuring the now #1 song "Harlem Shake" by Baauer.
So before you go to make your Harlem Shake video, be sure to get your costumes for The Harlem Shake at AnniesCostumes.com. If you are wondering how to make a Harlem Shake costume, take some pointers from some of the funniest ones we found:
What type of Harlem Shake costumes should you use in your video? Any type of costumes will be just fine. The crazier the costume the better!
One of the costumes seen in most of the dancing videos is the skin suit, also know as a morph suit or Zentai suit. These colored jumpsuit costumes originally started out as green screen suits for television special effects scenes.
Easter comes very early this year, so don't let the bunny sneak up on you and prepare early! Why is Easter a different date every year? Easter is a moveable feast, meaning that it is not a fixed date on the calendar each year; rather it is based on the phases of the moon. Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the full moon following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.
The traditions of painting Easter Eggs and the Easter Bunny are ancient history - literally!
The ancient Greeks colored Easter Eggs and rabbits and hares (being such famously fertile animals) represent the fertility of Spring and are symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox. Eggs are also symbols of fertility, thus painted and decorated eggs were given as gifts representing new life. The name Easter is thought to have derived from Eostre, an ancient pagan goddess of Spring.
Yes, that's correct! Some Easter origins, as well as those of the Easter Bunny, come from pre-Christian lore. Dating back to the time before Jesus Christ, parents told their children to expect presents from a magic hare. Since hares are quite rare in many regions, the bunny rabbit widely replaced the hare; this is how the Easter Bunny has become so famous now. Eostre is related to the German Ostara; and according to a popular piece of folklore, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became the modern Easter Bunny.
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