Historically accurate Halloween costumes

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VoiceOfRealson on October 22nd, 2018 at 09:52 UTC »

Was she really that much taller than him IRL?

No wonder he wanted to cut her down to size a bit.

Spartan2470 on October 22nd, 2018 at 12:25 UTC »

Here appears to be the source of this image. Per there:

My friend's kids Halloween costumes, Henry the VII and Ann Boleyn

by monkeygruven

Oct 31 2015

And as Imgur user immakinganotehere says:

@OP it's Henry the VIII, not VII

General_Urist on October 22nd, 2018 at 12:33 UTC »

This is probably off topic, but I'm reminded of /u/BisFitty, that black guy who was invited to a period-accurate costume party... on a 19th century southern cotton plantation. So he came as a slave, and his boss canceled the party out of awkwardness.