Halloween costumes and the family

If it's a classy Halloween costume you are wanting, step right up, funkomavintage has all kinds. 
No boring ordinary costumes here. You won't look like all the other wacky people that dress like ho's and pimps, and really bad polyester Elvi.


here's a sample of the flotsam and jetsam we have procured for you.  Sit back, relax, and buckle up. This Vintage Halloween is gonna be a bumpy bumpy ride.

Even Couples Halloween costumes, and a set of Hawaiian tourist togs for the the fam damily!

Mom, Dad, or Mom/Mom, Dad/Dad, or whatever, and some small person, can dress alike in tacky or cute, 70s Hawaiian shirts, and a matching dress. I Know!

 


Matching Hawiian vintage shirts. Just add black socks and sandals, a fanny pack and a camera around your neck, hey, gray all ovah!

Vintage Purple satin cape is lined in shiny gold satin. This is a stunner and too cool just for a costume.

Real Deal 60s cheerleader outfit. Wool sweater with a big chenille R and a cheer megaphone, and a culotte pleated skirt in black with orange. I know!

Vintage 50s gypsy costume, handmade, with glorious details. Spangle scarf and 2 other scarves for tying around your head, or your waist, and a velvet vest with a red skirt with lots of ruffles. Spanish dancer, or fancy nightclub singer, oh yes. 

 

Here is something really wild. Long blue fringe dress.... I don't know exactly what you want to do with this one......  20s flapper? oh sure why not. I'd just chop off the sleeves. more fun that way, right.

Bright neon green chiffon with beading and crystals make this vintage 60s dress anything but tame!
Phyllis Diller? It's a great start to something wild and crazy, we know it.

80s! What fun, and nothing is more 80s than a mini metallic dress, strapless with a big bunch of shiny sparkly sequins and a big big big Fabric Rose!

 The classic Crackerjack suit, is such a great choice for staying warm and looking cute. Sailor suit, is the pullover top, a 40s Wool US Navy jumper with a Ruptured duck. Matching pants too with all the 13+ buttons, waiting for you at the funkomavintage shop on etsy. 

and how about a Tiger Woods - esque Golfer get-up, in a vintage 70s polo shirt, that says Oh Shit. I shit you not.

Everyone likes bunny rabbits right? How about breeding them suckers. They multiply like rabbits! ha ah hahahahaha.....  Yes, it's a Rabbit Breeders coveralls with patches and oh, just go take a look.
Here's Clem and he has on the most amazing stupendous embroidered coveralls known to man and beast. Even the ladies can get in on this.

50s Vintage Dr. Strangelove Cold War Flight Suit Pilot Halloween Costume Astronaut US Air Force

Relive the glory days of nukleer bombs, lying liars lying about Weapans of Mas Deskruchun. yes, Mission Accomplished, George Ass Bush, the world is at war, and all the rich people have all the money.
Well done, jerk off,  AWOL from the armed forces.

Jack O Lantern what a big orange head you have!

Did  you know that a Jack O Lantern was a fella that walked around with a lantern, like a night watchman? Back in the olde days of the 1600's, before electric lights, lanterns and oil lamps gave light during the dark days and the dark nights...

 the first pic is a Jack O Lantern my son made for me when he was in elementary school. A very prized possession.  The witch and the smiling Jack are both Beistle Halloween decorations.

Imagine a light bobbing along in a dark foggy street, and it's easy to see why folks would think that maybe a ghost or a spirit was swinging a lantern. And out in the countryside when they couldn't explain a strange light off in the dark distance....must be a ghost! There were no streetlights, no table lamps, no flashlights.....when you went outside, it was the moon and the stars....and maybe some swamp gas.

Around the campfires, folk tales were told about weird lights, and Jack, being a very common name, was assigned to the carrier of the strange lights.  One popular old folk story was about a strange guy named Stingy Jack who got in a bit of a pickle with the  Devil.  When Stingy Jack died,  God refused Stingy Jack entrance into Heaven, and the Devil wouldn't allow him into Hell. Mr. Devil gave Stingy Jack a burning coal in a hollowed out turnip to light his way. So, Stingy Jack roams the earth with his vegetable lantern.

Isak Dinesen, who wrote Out Of Africa, notes that "her" Kikuyu people used their pumpkins as lanterns also....filling them will coals and carried them out to the goat herds and goat herders to light the night. Occasionally, the embers would catch the grass fields on fire and how distressing that was!

Country people and city people, from that time on, have said that the mysterious lights over swamps and fields and down dark alleys and streets are Stingy Jack and his turnip lantern.
Using hollow vegetables, and setting candles, coal or hot wood embers inside makes a cheap easy lantern, and so..... and you can see where this is going! Pumpkins ..being larger than beets and turnips became the favorite fall vegetable to use for hollowing out and fit with candles to add a cheery and creepy nighttime glow.

By the 19th century,  it was becoming a fun thing to do.... carve out large pumpkins and squash and light them up. The Mayor of Atlanta, in 1892 held a costume party for the fancy folk. Halloween was fast becoming the big party of the season, and well it should.......with fun costumes and delicious food and spirits.........both the ethereal kind and the imbibing kind.

 this is from 'I Love Halloween' on Facebook.

 historical costumes from Dover.com


The pumpkins were carved with funny and scary faces and thus...the tradition of carving a fall vegetable, adding a flickering light and setting it out on the porch and by the front gate became an American tradition.

 both of these, the mini-pumpkin with big teeeeeth, and the VW pumpkin van...have been all over Pinterest....credit them if you can.