While music is the most important aspect of Voo-doo, fashion has to be a close second.

Festivals give visitors the opportunity to try dar-ing trends or dress up from the normal, day-to-day outfits.

However, whatever outfits you plan to sport, make sure they’re comfortable. Try on what you’re considering, and

throw a little music festival in your bedroom. Walk, dance, sit — do everything you’ll prob-ably be doing during Voodoo. Also, make sure to accessorize the outfit with comfortable shoes and noncumbersome jewelry.

If the outfit passes the mini-festival test, it should be a good fit for Voodoo.

Next, don’t afraid to be daring.

Voodoo lands on Halloween weekend, which means any-thing goes. If you want to wear a costume, do it. If you want to stick to what you’d normally

The hardest part of pick-ing a wardrobe for a concert festival is finding the perfect mix of what looks good and what’s comfortable enough to wear in a group of sweaty, jumping people for several hours.

Obviously, you want to be fashionable because a concert is a major social event. At the same time, there’s nothing worse than being hot and mis-erable when you’re trying to

enjoy a band that you’ve been looking forward to seeing all year.

There are, however, a few ways in which a festivalgoer can maintain their sense of style while remaining cool and comfortable.

This is particularly easy for men.

Board shorts are one of the best options. These are swimsuit-style shorts, usually worn by surfers, that are a little less casual than typical swim trunks.

Board shorts often have a lot of pattern and design options with front and back pockets for

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Jefferson United Methodist Church, located at 10328 Jefferson Highway, hosts an annual pumpkin patch with proceeds funding its various missions.

The Jefferson United Methodist Church Annual Pumpkin Patch has been treating rather than tricking the church congregation and the Baton Rouge com-munity for almost five years.

Pumpkin patch chairman Carol Bour-geois said the money raised by selling the pumpkins fund the various missions and mission trips the church supports. The pumpkins are raised on a Native American reservation in New Mexico and then are loaded on huge conveyors to be transported to the Baton Rouge patch.

“I think we had something like 22,000 pounds of pumpkins this year,” Bourgeois said.

‘Dear Great Pumpkin’ Halloween is marked with its yearly appearance

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While clothing can be creative and fun, comfort should be the first thing to think about when planning a Voodoo outfit.see Women’s fashion, page 15

The word Halloween is a shortening of the All Hallows’ Eve or All Hallows’ Evening, morphing into

Countries that celebrate the spooky holiday include ireland, canada, puerto rico, the united Kingdom, australia, new Zealand and of course the united states. Many Hispanic countries also celebrate a version of the holiday such as Mexico

with the Dia de los Muertos or the “day of the dead.”

In ohio, iowa and massachusetts, Halloween night, or whatever night designated for trick-or-treating, is often referred to as beggars night.

In this classic Halloween favorite, the jolly children of the Peanuts cast embark on Halloween adventures while Linus and his blue blanket await the arrival of the “Great Pumpkin” in the pumpkin patch near his house. The movie is filled with timeless comedic moments cen-tered around a silly plot that includes Snoopy flying his

dog house as though he were the Red Baron and crashing it near the party the children are attending.

‘it’s the great pumpkin, charlie brown’

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Check out a recipe for spiced pumpkin seeds online at lsureveille.com/daily.

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