Hi everybody! It’s that time of year again: our annual Dress Parade Costume Contest. We’re celebrating women’s history from every era and corner of the globe, along with mythology, fiction, and fantasy. This year we’re awarding prizes in three divisions, with a total prize purse of $1500. Entries are due by November 24 (the Sunday […]
Prizes are here! A huge thank-you to everyone who participated in the contest. I’m in awe of all the beautiful costumes, the boundless creativity, and the warm sense of camaraderie in our little community. I was delighted to see so many familiar faces again and thrilled to welcome new participants to our contest. I will […]
It’s time for the annual Dress Parade Costume Contest! This is the first year with our new name, but it’s still the same contest. We’ve tweaked the categories and the rules just a teensy bit as part of our never-ending quest to make things simpler and clearer. This year we have eight prize categories spread […]
The great transition has happened: Take Back Halloween has now become Dress Parade. You’re on our new site, which we’ve been working all summer to get ready. It looks exactly like the old site, but the backend is updated and we have a new server. Now that our innards are good, we can upload new […]
Just a note that we hope to resume our costume contest in 2023. Until then, happy costuming!
Our 2020 Costume Contest was interrupted for three months by COVID and my work, so only now, three months later, are we posting the winners. I am so grateful for everyone’s patience and good humor through this long, bizarre situation. What a year. I will be emailing the winners their Amazon gift certificates over the […]
UPDATE 10/26/2020: The deadline for entering the contest has been extended to November 15! Due to real-life circumstances, we’re going to have to delay the judging by about two weeks, so we’re also extending the deadline to enter. We’ll plan to get the prizes awarded the week of Thanksgiving. Thanks for understanding! After a one-year […]
Hi everybody – Just a quick note that we’re not having a contest this year because our new website isn’t ready yet. (This one is barely creaking along.) We plan to re-launch in 2020, and we’ll have the contest again next Halloween. But if you’ve got a great costume this year, never fear—just get some […]
Every year the entries to our contest get better and better. I want to give everyone a prize. So many beautiful costumes, so much creativity, so many agonizingly difficult decisions. I’m just in awe of all this heartfelt handiwork. Some of the categories were brutally competitive this year. If you didn’t win, don’t be discouraged! […]
The countdown has begun: exactly two months from today is Halloween. Will you be ready? Will you be wearing a fab historical costume? Will you have photos? Will you enter our contest??? Let the answer to all of those questions be an enthusiastic “yes!” Our 7th Annual Take Back Halloween Costume Contest is on. Send […]
Hey everybody! It’s time for our annual costume contest, and I’ll be putting up the announcement for that very shortly. But I also have some other news to announce. None of this is going to happen until after the contest, but I wanted to go ahead and put out the alert. So, three things: 1. […]
Hey everybody – just a quick note that the formal announcement for the 2018 Costume Contest will be up at the end of August. This is usually the time of year when people start emailing me to check in on the contest, so just spreading the word. It’ll be similar to last year’s contest, but […]
