The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the original style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, Sexy Halloween Costumes poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social ceremony such as a masquerade, a elegant dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.
Costumes also serve as an avenue for children to explore and roleplay. Children can dress up in various forms; for example characters from history or crap like pirates, princesses or cowboys, hackneyed jobs like nurses or constabulary officers, or kingdom Animalia such as those seen in zoos or farms.