Halloween Costume Countdown - Day 11

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Here is a gallery of maidens and crones in witch garb from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1920's (in order from earliest to latest).











1913 The following Halloween-themed Life Magazine cover by Power O’Malley is from 30 October 1913 (vol. 62; No. 1618)


1914


1920s






1927 - mrowr!


1928 - the Roaring Twenties, when the sexy started in earnest.


(Sources: http://sexywitch.wordpress.com, http://witchhistory.tumblr.com, http://anostalgichalloween.blogspot.com/ and various sites via Gooogle images)