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On this day, it is customary to dress up in various costumes: frightening, like Count Dracula, or, conversely, funny, like clowns or superheroes.

Those who celebrate wear clothes themselves and do not forget about their pets. In recent years, dog and cat costumes have become the new Halloween fashion.

In the evening, after the festive meal, children go to the streets, where neighbors treat them to sweets. The tradition of going from house to house in search of sweets dates back to the Middle Ages.

In the United States, a dog carnival is held annually to celebrate Halloween.

The competition is held simultaneously in several cities, which allows a huge number of participants - more than 800 pets.

The variety of costumes for four-legged animals is striking in its color and personality. So, in the Californian city of Escondido, one of the participants in the costume show, a two-year-old boxer named Penny, was dressed in a superhero costume from the Wonder Woman comics. And in New York, three dogs appeared before the audience in cowboy costumes.

Once, the main attraction of the festival was a dog named Billy. To amuse the public, the owners dressed him up in  a spotted cow costume. If they provided Billy with a humming mechanism, the resemblance to a cow would be one hundred percent.

According to the organizers, all the participants in the carnival are adorable in their own way, and, therefore, each of them deserves prizes from the national chain of pet stores. Viewers get a lot of positive emotions, as well as an occasion to think about their own costume for the celebration of the Day of Evil.

Designing a Halloween Dog Costume

Halloween is a limitless source of fun and creativity, and while everyone's favorite celebration of evil on October 31 is celebrated, the festivities and parties  last a week or two.

If you and your pet lead an active social life, you can get a suit for a four-legged partner. You can buy a ready-made carnival costume, or you can remake old out-of-fashion clothes or even build a mask and accessories, turning standard clothes into an outfit whereyour pet will be irresistible.

One of the popular themed fantasies is the Frankenstein costume. You can make it from an old suit by putting decorative large seams on it with thick threads of a contrasting color. You can wear a shaggy wig or mask with the same scary seams on the dog's head.

It is quite simple to make a bat costume - use an old blanket or a raincoat, and indeed we sew black cardboard wings to any clothes and the suit is ready.  You can buy or make a hat with pointed ears. You can also buy dragon wings costume that are also very interesting and sinister.

The witch's outfit is one of the simplest. Its base is an elongated, wide-brimmed cone hat that can be easily made of paper pasted over or upholstered with fabric. The rest is to your liking.

The girl can wear a dark-colored dress, the unisex option is a dark wide raincoat that is easy to sew on your own or adapt an existing one. The main thing is to make sure that the dog is not too hot in its costume

What is Halloween without its symbol - a ruddy pot-bellied pumpkin? You can sew a pumpkin from a fabric or an orange outfit, adding volume with a padding polyester or cotton wool. But for fun indoors, this option is not suitable since the pet will be hot, but for a street walk it will. The solution for an indoor party is a pumpkin hat, sewn on the same principle.

Another promising and easy idea to implement is a skeleton suit.