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Take Back Halloween is on a mission: a mission to make the world safe for creative and empowering costumes.

You won’t find costumes for Eleanor of Aquitaine or Hatshepsut in the stores. You won’t find costumes for powerful goddesses like Ishtar or the Morrigan. But you will find them at Take Back Halloween, the only website in the world devoted to showing women how to dress up as famous heroines, geniuses, queens, and goddesses. Without sewing!

Take Back Halloween isn’t a store.

We’re not selling any of this stuff. We’re a resource guide: we come up with the costume designs, explain what you’ll need to pull off the look, and provide links to where you can buy the various components. Our overall approach is about creating great no-sew costumes with stuff that is readily available: either already in your closet, on sale at eBay or some other retailer, or in stock at a costume store. See our “how to use this website” page for a quick rundown on how it works.

Plus, we include accurate historical information about every single figure. Thinking about what people wore is an incredibly fun way to learn history.

Despite our name, we’re not just about Halloween.

Since Take Back Halloween was launched in 2010, it has become the leading online resource for women and girls’ DIY historical costuming. People use our site for occasions all year long: Black History Month, Women’s History Month, cultural festivals, school presentations, 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.

they also have a historical costume contest in their blog section.