Costumes also serve as an avenue for children to explore and roleplay. Children can dress up in multitudinal forms; for illustration characters from biography or fable like pirates, princesses or cowboys, accepted jobs like nurses or constable officers, or fauna such as those seen in zoos or farms.

Isadora Duncan factitious a high impact on dance costume today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries she “throws off the corset, bares her limbs, and dances barefoot” (Penrod 13). Duncan began a new look, inspired by the Greeks, of tunics and scarves. This simple costume inspired a late configuration of dance costume and neoteric ways of moving (Penrod 13). This imitation of the link Greek clothing freed the naturally comely lines of the human bod and movement. This change in costume extended the dancer’s space, and caused the costume to be made to conform to the curves and shapes of the body as much as possible (Art of Production 57).