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: ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW ORLEANS – When your collection of Mardi ...

EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — The Courir de Mardi Gras tradition is still celebrated in Cajun Country, along with its traditional costumes. However, there are few traditional costume makers left. Susana Ortego ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first Mardi Gras balls in South Mississippi were presented more than 100 years ago and continue today with pageantry, secrecy and elaborate costumes. The pages of the Daily Herald and Sun Herald — ...

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 ...