Christmas Eve Dressup!!!

Girls and women of all age love to dress for every occasion that comes their way. All of them want to look special and add that unique touch and charm. Christmas party dresses, dress for Christmas Eve and holiday dresses are of course an important part of our Christmas celebrations as it is the time when all the friends and family come over and we go to visit them too. Here are some perfect ideas to dress-up formally yet have that casual warm aura that makes you so lovable this Christmas:

* Basic Black Dress: Basic black dress in satin, velvet, crepe or jersey that goes all the way below the knee is an all-time classic and can look most flattering, if you accessorize properly.

* Earrings: Remember, more you pull back or pull up your hair, longer should be your earring. Just experiment with all types of varieties such as drops, hoops and studs and see what looks best on your outfit.

* Embroidered or Sparkling Top: Embroidered, beaded or sparkling metallic-colored tops make you look dressed appropriately for the festive season. Beautiful tops with matching lipstick, a pair of classic black trousers or a straight skirt and hair pulled back can make you look as formal and yet warm and cheerful as you like.

* High Heels: The classic pair of sandals with high heels looks good with every thing. It adds to your height and gives you good posture.

* Magic Dust: Dust any body part that you want to highlight with shimmering powder dust in pink, silver, gold or skin color tones such as on back, neck, cheeks or arms.

* Party Bag: For formal holiday parties, choose a party bad with simple lines and subtle details that can easily go with all dresses. You can choose ones with short shoulder strap or loop to hang around your wrist yet the most sought-out option is still the one that you carry in your hand.

* Shawls and Stoles: Embroidered, velvet or fringes shawls and stoles can add glamour to the simplest of dresses and can make your basic dress look rich and beautiful. The best option is to use the shawl or stole whose fabric matches your dress.

* Velvet Jacket: Rich velvet jackets in black or burgundy can make plainest of dresses look formal in a jiffy. You can choose from plain or embroidered ones.

Athena dress...

Expensive, realistic masks - the kind that are the hit of the costume party - are increasingly being used out of season and not always for laughs

New Year Eve Costumes...

Everyone rings in the New Year a little bit different. Some people like to sit at home with their thoughts on the previous 12 months and others like to go out and dance the night away. Whether you go out or stay in you can share the day and night with friends.


If you want to do something different for the new year then try having a 2011 New Year's Eve costume party. Of course, it goes better when you're with like-minded friends, and it doesn't need to be a requirement to dress up. No matter what you decide, a safe party is the best party idea. These party ideas are good for New Year's party celebrations, birthday parties, and can be used other times of the year when you want to get together with friends.

White Bridal Wedding Costume##

White has long been accepted as the traditional color of the wedding dress, but wedding gowns were not always white. The marriage of Queen Victoria to her cousin Albert of Saxe- Coburg in 1840 has had more influence on weddings than any other.


Queen Victoria put the wheels in motion by marrying in white. Though brides continued to wed in gowns of different colors, white was now set as the color of choice for weddings and has continued ever since. In Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1849, this statement was printed:




“ Custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material. It is an emblem of the purity and innocence of girlhood, and the unsullied heart she now yields to the chosen one.”

There is an old poem about how the color of your wedding dress will influence your future: “Married in white, you will have chosen all right. Married in grey , you will go far away.

Married in black, you will wish yourself back. Married in red, you’ll wish yourself dead. Married in blue, you will always be true. Married in pearl, you’ll live in a whirl.

Married in green, ashamed to be seen, Married in yellow, ashamed of the fellow. Married in brown, you’ll live out of town. Married in pink, your spirits will sink.”

Mid-Age Clothing

In Medieval Europe, as in the Roman period, most people wore loose linen or wool tunics like big baggy t-shirts. But clothing did become more complicated in the Middle Ages, and more used to distinguish men and women of different professions from each other.


Men mostly wore tunics down to their knees, though old men and monks wore their tunics down to the ground, and so did kings and noblemen for parties and ceremonies. Men sometimes also wore wool pants under their tunics. Wearing pants was originally a Germanic idea, and the Romans disapproved of it. But it gradually caught on anyway, especially among men who rode horses and in colder areas. Other men, especially noblemen, wore tights under their tunics. Knitting had not yet been invented, so they had to wear woven tights which did not fit very tightly. Outside, if it was cold, men wore wool cloaks.






On their feet, men wore leather shoes if they could afford them. You can tell if a medieval painting or tapestry was made before or after about 1300 AD by looking at the mens' shoes. In the earlier paintings men wear shoes with square toes, but later the shoes have pointy toes and even curve up at the toes in a kind of hook, just to be extra fancy.





Women also wore different kinds of clothes depending on who they were. All women wore at least one tunic down to their ankles. Many women, if they could afford it, wore a linen under-tunic and a woolen over-tunic, and often a wool cloak over that if they were going outside. On their legs women sometimes wore woven tights or socks, but women never wore pants. Nuns wore tunics like other women, but generally in black or white rather than colors. Noblewomen often wore fancy tall hats, sometimes with streamers coming off them. They sometimes plucked the hair from their foreheads to give themselves very high foreheads which people thought were beautiful.



Not much medieval clothing survives today, because clothing tends to rot when it is buried under the ground, and even in the air it tears and gets threadbare and then people use it for rags. Most of what we know about medieval clothing comes from medieval pictures and sculptures, which have lasted better.



This is an Early Medieval (Merovingian) belt-buckle made out of bronze.





Here is a pair of boots from the Merovingian period (about 700 AD) now in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Here is some Merovingian jewelry from the museum at St. Germain en Laye near Paris. The jewelry is mostly gold and glass. There are some pins and some necklaces.

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