if anyone needs a women's or girl's costume (no sew DIY)

Since we launched in 2010, we have become the leading online resource for women and girls’ DIY historical costuming. People use our site for occasions all year long: Women’s History Month, Black History Month, Halloween, Purim, Mardi Gras, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Diwali, Hai Ba Trung Day, cultural festivals, special school events, historical reenactments, and more. Educators even use our site as a novel way to teach history. We get millions of visits from all over the world.

We take seriously our responsibility to provide accurate information and a positive, empowering experience. When a girl or woman goes online to find out how to dress up as the great queen Nzinga, for example, she finds our site.

If she wants to dress up as the mathematician Ada Lovelace, or the flying ace Bessie Coleman, or the feminist Sor Juana, or the pirate Ching Shih, she finds our site. Because the commercial costume industry doesn’t begin to accurately reflect women’s history, many of our DIY designs have been specifically requested or commissioned—such as our design for the Trung Sisters. We continue to add new costume designs as time allows. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everybody can find their heroines and heritage represented.

dress parade (formally known as take back halloween)