46 Costumes Through the Ages From medieval pageants to modern-day Halloween: a costume timeline.

48 heavenly hoopla Hoop dancer Annie Weinert makes shimmering costumes for an all-girl hula hoop troupe.

50 Burlesque Bouquet Whip up a flamboyant fruit and flower headdress, Carmen Miranda style.

54 CosPlay

Anime and video game fans create costumes to become their favorite characters.

56 Pirate Pooch

Your four-legged matey will look shipshape in this swashbuckling get-up.

60 Spirit Girl

Artist Marnie Weber’s surreal costumes take us to the otherworld.

Photograph by Robyn Twomey

YO HO,
YO HO,
A pirate
pug’s
costume
for me!