As Halloween approaches, no doubt that you’re on the hunt for a great Halloween outfit to dress in to the party or on trick or treat night. Just as every other item of clothing, you would like this outfit to be inventive and unique, consequently here I will discuss a number of top Halloween costumes for 2011. In this short article we will put the spotlight on the weird or ghoulish costumes, notably the [2] headless costume.

Sidebar : Check out all the headless costumes, including the [3] headless man costume

Backdrop to the Headless costume - “Off With His Head”

Queen Elizabeth the 1st was believed to utter this expression after somebody she did not like offended her. She was portrayed as a fairly whimsical and erratic queen and produced these utterances without the slightest thought of the consequences. She was just as likely to annul the instruction a few moments later.

If the Queen was truly like this is up for debate as she was an exceedingly successful monarch and fairly diplomatic in a period when violence was the first alternative for many.

With this said, one point that is without question is that the execution of the day was beheading. Ill-fated fellows would be led up to a gallows to confront a chopping block and also a masked, brawny looking curmudgeon picking dirt out of his nails with the tip of a massive ax.

To the cheers of a baying crowd, the fellow would be dispatched and his head would roll into a basket. If he was a particularly important individual, his head might then be put on a spike and hung out to dry on some castle parapet or even at the entrance to the town or city.

It was a particularly dreadful time to be living or in the case of the headless costume, the walking dead. The basic headless costume harks back to this time, when a wandering ghost might lug his cut off head about with him.

A conventional headless outfit which you could get these days is rather ingenious and quite an unusual look.

The outfit consists of an over sized costume that covers the head.

There’s a shoulder attachment that fits to your head and shoulders. This is a model of a severed neck, replete with blood oozing from the cut. You rest the shoulder attachment about your covered head under the costume. This gives the impression that you’re headless. It’s a particularly grisly look that is definitely just right for Halloween.

You can get the basic headless costume or the headless butler and as well the [4] headless horsemen costume from the Sleepy Hollow story (and motion picture by Tim Burton). You can see these are quite unusual Halloween costumes and will definitely have folks gasping at the party.

Summation

Have a memorable Halloween party dressed in a unique headless costume for example the headless horseman costume. It is a grisly and ghastly look to try at the party and will emphatically get you an array of attention and comments.