The Halloween Handbook

Bridie Clark
Paperback - $22.95

Get Historical. Hysterical. Or come hither (Ooooohhh.) Plus all the hoopla.
Who knew you could concoct an instant costume out of underwear and safety pins? Voila Chest of Drawers!
Or dazzle friends with the ingenuity of using a cauliflower ...

Creative Costumes & Halloween Decor : 50 Projects to Sew & Craft

Creative Publishing International
Paperback - $29.95

The all-in-one Halloween book!

"Creative Costumes & Halloween D??cor" combines costume and decorating projects into one convenient book. The costumes are designed around three basic styles: tabards, gowns, and full suits (made from pajama patterns) ...

Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It

Dorothy Hartley
Paperback - $20.95

Clear-cut and accurate in its guidance, this volume depicts medieval clothes and accessories not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Unlike conventional costume histories, which tend to classify thei ...

Quick Costumes for Kids : 30 Great Fancy-Dress Ideas

Deborah House
Paperback - $29.95

Every child loves dressing up, but up until now making the costumes kids want has been both time consuming and difficult. No longer! Designed for children three to eight years old, these 30 costumes require little or no sewing, and feature interchang ...

Everybody Cosplay!

Jan Kurotaki
Paperback - $32.95

Visit an anime convention anywhere in the North America and you'll see them everywhere: fans dressed up in the costumes of their favorite characters, acting out their roles and assuming their personalities. In Japan, where cosplay was born, the scene ...

The Elvis Impersonation Kit : A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the King

Laura Lee
Paperback - $33.95

Packaged with a pair of plush, paste-on sideburns, a ring, and a pair of Elvis sunglasses, this is the must-have kit for every Elvis wannabe.

Patterns for Costume Accessories

Arnold S. Levine
Paperback - $54.95

A collection of over 70 patterns for period and contemporary accessories. The headwear chapter includes 12 patterns from baseball caps to mob caps. There are 22 variations of neckwear. Also included are patterns for various hand-held accessories such ...

Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume : 100 Engravings

Caspar Luyken
Paperback - $22.95

This volume reprints the celebrated collection of costume plates created in 1694 by noted seventeenth-century Dutch engraver Caspar Luyken. Executed with remarkable finesse, the superb illustrations depict a wide range of social classes: royalty cour ...

Instant Period Costumes : How to Make Classic Costumes from Cast-Off Clothings

Barb Rogers
Paperback - $32.95

Why spend a small fortune to rent expensive period costumes when you can create them yourself for less than a day's rental price? Make them the easy way from cast-offs without sewing! Included in this book are over 65 ingenious costumes designs with ...

Kokigami : Performance Enhancing Adornments for the Adventurous Man

Burton Silver
Paperback - $29.95

Couples desiring to add new and exciting dimensions to their intimate relationships can turn to the first instructional guide to the ancient Japanese art of Kokigami. Written by the authors of "Why Cats Paint", this book features 14 paper costumes th ...