Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. Here are a few that caught our eye. The ...

For 12 years Karen Thibodeaux has made Mardi Gras costumes for people to wear as they chase chickens. Well, there’s more to it than that. In Branch, in rural Acadia Parish, Thibodeaux and her ...

EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — The Courir de Mardi Gras tradition is still celebrated in Cajun Country, along with its traditional costumes. However, there are few traditional costume makers left.

The first Mardi Gras balls in South Mississippi were presented more than 100 years ago and continue today with pageantry, secrecy and elaborate costumes. The pages of the Daily Herald and Sun ...

Mardi Gras—just one of the festival’s many names—is marked by raucous parties and parades, revelers wearing elaborate costumes, and delicious foods. Some begin celebrating on the night ...

Karen Thibodeaux, the owner of Vacajun is known for making costumes for the Mardi Gras season. It was orginally just a sewing business at her home, but it progressed to Mardi Gras ball gowns and ...

So, how is it that Christianity and Voodoo co-mingle and even thrive, elbow-to-elbow, in New Orleans and at Mardi Gras? Catholicism and Mardi Gras were imported in the 1700s by French settlers.

GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) - On Sunday, seamstress Shelia Gray of Vancleave showed off some of her finest handmade Mardi Gras costumes. In less than a month, the streets of the Mississippi Gulf ...

Once a year, New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood comes alive in a rainbow of intricately beaded costumes and feathers, paraded through the streets in a mesmerizing “strut.” In a city known for its ...

But while the costumes, music and beads often take center stage, the food of Mardi Gras is equally important—steeped in centuries of history and culture. This year Mardi Gras falls on Tuesday ...

(WKRG) — The carnival experience would not be complete without Mardi Gras balls, but the tuxedos ... Most carnival balls require guests to show up in Costume de Rigueur. The French word relates ...