Children in costume develop their imagination and creativity a lot. This encourages interaction with other children acquiring another personality that helps them see the world in which they live differently.
It can help to fantasize that they have another identity that makes them feel more powerful and secure. On the other hand, they need to be recognized as they are and be for a moment someone different, perhaps someone they admire.
Costumes also stimulate intelligence and even language development. It is a way of learning through the game “play to be” and thus face new challenges, express their feelings in a fun, simple and fearless way, also expressing the unconscious that is operating in them.
In adults, their creativity also increases. For example, dressing up on Halloween helps us give ourselves a break from ourselves, from the daily routine. Disguising ourselves helps us connect with our unconscious emotions, those emotions that we do not want to recognize and manifest and that in the “skin of another” are released.
It also favors body language as it involves recreating the positive gestures, voices, and movements of the characters you want to portray. The interpretation, the imitation of some fictional or real character, free or improvised makes us aware of our movements, and improve motor coordination, and symbolic play that helps to uninhibited you by daring to be more powerful, brave or a hero.
Disguising ourselves implies dedicating time for ourselves, in our image and in the way we want to transform and socialize.
For example, if we dress up at a party it is allowed to choose any type of clothing that serves you to have more confidence in yourself and thus be able to better engage in a conversation that without the costume you may not dare. The idea of experiencing being someone else can help and clarify our ideas and feelings to change or overcome ourselves and thus improve our self-esteem. Finally, the costume reveals something of our personality. What do you disguise yourself as? You don’t know and you would like to know, together we can achieve it.
