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2. List of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival character costumes

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   A wide variety of costumes (called "mas") depicting traditional Trinidadian Carnival characters are seen throughout the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. After emancipation in 1838, freed slaves combined African masking culture with French colonial influence [ 1 ] to create characters that parodied the upper-class customs and costumes of Carnival.

3. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - Wikipedia

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   The costume is constructed so as to give the illusion of a dancer riding a small burro or donkey. [49] [48] This masquerade was brought to Trinidad by Venezuelan settlers. [50] Dame Lorraine – A voluptuous woman. [51] The costume parodies the dress of 18th-century French aristocratic women and is stuffed in the hips and bust. [52] Often ...

4. Mardi Gras in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Balls are usually based upon a theme which is carried out through scenery, decorations, costumes, and a tableau vivant. [10] Mobile first celebrated Carnival in 1703 when French settlers began the festivities at the Old Mobile Site. [12] Mobile's first Carnival society was organized in 1704, when Nicholas Langlois founded Société de Saint ...

5. Dress to Impress (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Kelsey Raynor of VG247 wrote that Dress to Impress was "pretty damned good" and "surprisingly competitive". [19] Ana Diaz, for Polygon, wrote that "the coolest part" of Dress to Impress was that it "gives young people a place to play with new kinds of looks", calling it "a wild place where a diversity of tastes play out in real time every single day with thousands of players". [8]

6. Halloween costume - Wikipedia

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   Halloween costumes can also generate controversy through the overt sexualization of many women's costumes [47] – despite a surprisingly long history of it [48] [49] [50] – even those intended for young girls. While costumes of various occupations like student, police officer, academia, clergy, or nursing do exist for men, they are often at ...

7. Rio Carnival - Wikipedia

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   The costumes are symbolic of political and cultural themes of the time, which are then integrated into Carnival. [4] The emergence of carnival societies created by the monarch elite also contributed to the popularization of the party among the poor. In 1840, the very first Rio masquerade took place, and polka and waltz took center stage. [5]