HOUMA, La. — Wearing costumes as part of the Carnival celebrations was once as much for parade spectators as participants, but that custom has almost completely died out. The Krewe of Tradition is ...

Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. Here are a few that caught our eye. The members of Krewe des Fleurs make their own flower costumes every year. Photo: ...

IOTA, La. (KLFY)– Costumes are a large part of the Mardi Gras experience. One family in Iota keeps the culture of Mardi Gras alive by making traditional Carnival garb. The Miller family showed Gerald ...

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 staff ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Majestic Krewe of Aurora is the founding Krewe of Mardi Gras southeast Texas. Every year they host the grand ball, and the Saturday Grand Parade, and dress up in intricate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KENNER, La. (WGNO) — We’ve all seen them, ...

The Krewe of Tradition is working to bring Mardi Gras costumes back into parade crowds in a south-central Louisiana city, with a four-hour costume-making workshop Sunday at the Bayou Terrebonne ...

It’s difficult to predict exactly where the wandering Mardi Gras Indians, also called Black Masking Indians, will appear, though North Claiborne Avenue near St. Bernard Avenue is a good bet. The ...

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 ...

San Nicholas was a New Orleans character if there ever was one — the kind who could talk for hours about his life and have the listeners convinced by conversation’s end that they needed to write a ...

Raleigh hosts Mardi Gras Masquerade Prom for Adults on February 7, 2026, aiding local financial assistance program.

The WDSU team showed off their Mardi Gras 2020 costumes, and this year they put a special "Ain't dere no more" twist on them!Check out Heath, Kweilyn, Randi and the rest of their crew sport some of ...