Costuming Beauty and the Beast
There is something terribly elemental about the Beauty and the Beast story. All fairy tales of its kind are elemental, of course, and that’s certainly the biggest part of their appeal, but there’s a duality in this one that has a different kind of magnetism. In stories of opposites, where there is an attraction or some kind of connection between characters who are entirely different, something deeply psychological is usually at work. There is a kind of sense that at a profound level, there is no difference, but it takes the journey of the tale to reach this understanding.
It’s not surprising that there are beauty and the beast costumes , which are very popular throughout the year, not only for Halloween parties. One figure is conceived of as close to perfection in the human world, and the other has flaws that make it entirely animal at times. It becomes fascinating, then, when the two are always joined in the imagination, and to see them in the physical world can be delightful and also a bit uncanny. It speaks to a kind of elemental law of attraction, where he is pulled to what she has, because it is missing in him, and vice versa, and seeing these notions made into metaphors gives them even more weight in the imagination as well as in the realm of attraction.
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