Halloween Vampire Costumes for Kids

These are children's vampire costumes from the high end of the market, and it shows. But they are novelty dress-up items that can be used again and again for many parties and play-times to come.

InCharacter's costumes look like they're crafted from satin and silk. But you need something much more hard-wearing when you have kids at play. Therefore their fabrics are a polyester blend to give it that extra durability.

Your child will look the part to a stunning level, but still be free to run around doing what kids do, without you worrying about them destroying their vampire dress-up.

InCharacter's costumes are always fantastic, hence the price tag that they command. Well made, quality outfits make them worth any price. Those like the Versailles Vampiress costume for girls (pictured above) start at over $100, with the bigger sizes knocking a sizable hole in $200.

But not all InCharacter costumes are reserved for those with big bank balances.

The Gothic vampire costumes for kids start at less than $50, only rising to the more usual $100+ once you start looking at teen or adult sizes. While the Midnight Vampire kids' costumes below come in at less than $30, with free shipping thrown in for good measure!

This sassy pair look like they have a story or two to tell!  Like Claudia from The Vampire Chronicles, they are immortal beings trapped in the aspect of children. They're older than you and I with our ages combined, but they're still able to wear an angelic grin, as they were transformed into blood-suckers in some distant childhood.

However, if you're less concerned with the make-believe stories of ancient children, than you are with the moral fiber of your own, then you have options too.

The Dark Side doesn't look nearly so glamorous from the perspective of the vampires wearing the costumes below.

InCharacter has produced a novel variation on a theme. Their boys' Vampire Slayed costume turns the Halloween horror back onto the monster himself, with a bloody stake protruding from his chest. This is the end of him and his blood-sucking ways!

The girlish vampire on the right is having slightly better luck, but her frayed full-length vampira dress shows that she too isn't having the best of centuries. Unless, of course, she's only just arisen again - since the Gilded Age judging by her gown - in time to attend your Halloween party.

Clockwise from top, you are viewing: Transylvanian Kids' Costume, Vampire Deluxe Kids' Costume, Universal Studios Child's Dracula Costume and, with the cane, Royal Boy's Vampire Costume. There are female counterparts to the Transylvanian and Royal vampire outfits coming up below.

With each of the Rubie's Costume Co. boy's vampire outfits above, what you see is what you get, give or take the shoes. You will have to provide those yourself. The only exception is the Royal Vampire Costume for Boys (first on the bottom layer), wherein the pants aren't included either, and the cane is sold separately.

What you will receive are the waist-coats (four different styles, depending upon the outfit), cape with stand up collars (two variants there), medallion, shirt with lacy jabot frontage and (for three of them) the pants too.

A nice touch is that Dracula costume, which is the only officially licensed likeness of its famous movie vampire that's been awarded by Universal Studios.

Another detail not immediately apparent from the pictures is the fine embroidery on the vests. The dark pattern isn't merely a random array of swirls, they're bats. Which is more than obvious once you zoom in, and will be resplendent on the costumes themselves.

It's also used on another Rubie's Costume Co. boy's vampire costume, adorning the whole of the cape this time. Though the pattern is somewhat eclipsed by a more startling feature.

That's one way to lighten an otherwise gloomy Halloween night!  The bright baubles come already attached to the vest itself. You will also receive the cape and pants as part of the light-up vampire costume for kids.

You will have to add your own cosmetics. None of the costumes come with pan-stick nor face-paints. And, of course, fangs. No self-respecting vampire can take to the streets on Halloween without its fangs.

Clockwise from top: Let's Pretend Vampire Princess Costume, Gothic Vampiress Costume, Royal Vampira Costume and Transylvanian Vampiress Costume.  The latter two match the Royal and Transylvanian male vampire costumes above, if you wish to pair a brother and sister, cousins or a boy-girl set of friends.

Rubie's Costume Co. has really gone to town on vampiress costumes for girls. Probably because there's so much scope for design, as long as it all looks suitably olde worlde and/or Gothic. Though apparently red and black are the vampiric colors, as they all opt for them.

The young female vampire outfits showcased above are just four from a massive selection. But they do constitute the most popular vampire girls' gowns in the range.

That aforementioned bat motif, which adorns the male waistcoats, is also in evidence here. Both the Royal Vampira and Vampire Princess costumes feature it.  The latter has my favorite item of all - that fabulous top hat with the skull detail!  Oh to be young enough to pull it off myself!

Again, what you see is what you get with all of these costumes, excepting the shoes and cosmetics, which you will need to provide for yourself.

Now for a large array of child vampiress dresses by other designers.