My father in law went on vacation to Italy this past summer. My initial thought was ruins but I wasn’t sure where to find Ancient Greek or Roman ruins relatively close to us. I think the location really helps add to the atmosphere for photos. ![]() Greek and Roman Family Halloween Costumes Location The crazy hair (I was thinking like Bellatrix La Strange) would have been fun but I think a lot of work and I needed something simpler. I also considered white ore red contacts for my eyes but decided not to do that because I was the one taking the photos and I needed to be able to see and not mess around with my eyes during the photo-shoot. I found some tutorials for Medusa Makeup on youtube. The snake headpiece, necklace and green lipstick are from Amazon. I later discovered I could have also gotten a snake nose ring from Shein and if I had thought about that I would have gotten that as well. My accessories: earrings, arm bands, rings, gladiator sandals are all from Shein. I used different gold fabric I found from Jo-Anns. To embellish the green dress, I added a gold cape and waistband. I took my old green maternity dress (originally from Amazon) and shortened it and cut off the sleeves. I always like to have a costume that is semi homemade. ![]() This was the first year he got a weapon for Halloween and he was so excited. The sandals were purchased from Shein (again not expecting them to last very long). The costume, sword and shield (yes separate purchases) from Halloween Costumes. The sandals are waterproof and Birkenstocks. The costume, shield and sword are from Halloween Costumes. Her toga was see-through so we also got some white leggings from Old Navy. She already had the gladiator type sandals from our family pictures last year (and they luckily just barely fit). No one wears bracelets on their upper arm but back then that was the style. It’s so interesting considering jewlery and how it really is a specific to different eras. ![]() After a few uses I don’t think the jewelry would last. We had to be very careful with everything from that store. I picked up the crown and one of the little pieces broke off. One disclaimer about the website Shein is the stuff is cheap and the quality is the same. The crown and armbands were purchased from Shein. It came with a leaf crown but we decided to go with some different jewelry. It never came back in stock so we searched ebay and luckily found the same exact costume. She initially saw a costume she liked on Halloween Costumes but it was out of stock. She had some white shorts and we bought a white tank top from Old Navy because the white toga was quite thin. The blue cape, bow and arrow, arm guards, leather belt were all from Amazon. Brown Boots were on the top of her list to have so we decided all of her accessories should match and also be brown leather. We pieced the look together from a few different stores. She had a vision of what her whole costume was going to look like. We ordered a couple of pairs because the color was texture were slightly different in each one. The crown was just some green leaves spray painted gold perhaps we could have done that ourselves. These Greek and Roman family costumes were so fun to put together. The gladiator costume was based off of the movie Gladiator and the fictional character of Maximus. I was wondering if they should be a specific gladiator (like Spartacus) or roman soldier (like Agrippa or Mark Anthony) but ultimately we decided to have them be generic. The boys were a roman soldier and gladiator. My youngest daughter picked her costume and we turned it into Aphrodite with some embellishments. I also loved the idea she was Artemis because we had passes to the Kennedy Space center this year and they are doing the Artemis missions now. She loved the idea of the hooded cloak and having a different weapon with a bow and arrow. My oldest daughter is pretty into Greek Mythology and decided to be Artemis. However, I have always wanted to be Medusa so other’s followed suit in choosing a specific person. Matt thought that we were going to be generic Greeks and Romans like our Pirate costumes. Then the list was shortened and we just had various voting rounds until Greek and Roman’s were decided upon. We took everyone’s ideas and had a list about 30 choices. ![]() It takes a while to order costumes (you know supply chain issues) but also because if something doesn’t fit right we have time to reorder. Can you guess who we are? We started discussing Halloween Costumes in August. Here are our Greek and Roman Family Halloween Costumes.
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