biggest-gaudiest-patronuses
ok but we gotta talk more about vintage halloween costumes, we GOTTA
ESPECIALLY the diy ones. back before costumes were mass-manufactured, people were left to their own devices and shit got WILD.
It was an absolute free-for-all. back before you could buy a batman mask in a drug store for $5, people really just did whatever
and it was FABULOUS
bonus points to these early commercialization attempts. yes that is a batman dress
anyway there is a basic human drive to wear weird-ass clothing and we should incorporate this shamelessness into our daily lives. only the most meagre of social laws prevent you from dunking yourself in body glitter and wearing a cape & pointy hat to the grocery story on a regular basis. revise your life accordingly.
callmebliss
is that one lady dressed as calculus
national-shitpost-registry
some people like scary costumes what ur point
sartorialadventure
So, the lady dressed as calculus: that’s not a Halloween costume. That’s a costume for a celebration of possibly BURNING CALCULUS IN EFFIGY. Also geometry and algebra, I would guess from the other costumes.
I went to a women’s college that was founded in 1869, and noodling around in the archives for things from the late 1890s, I ran across descriptions of college students celebrating the end of the school year by burning their most hated subjects in effigy. A certain group of students (sophomores?) all had had to take geometry, and they dressed up in costumes like those above (there was a photo) and burnt geometry in effigy. I would not be surprised if this was common at colleges at the time. My guess is that the particular image above is the mathematical subjects, as demons, rejoicing over the students they have killed through the terrible study of math.
