Of all the small dog clothing you can find for chihuahuas and shih tzu and yorkies and Maltese, costumes for small dogs have got to be the most fun. Browsing around the GW Little store lately, I’ve been indulging in a little dog shopping fun for my pet pups over here, picking out a few chihuahua clothes for their upcoming birthdays and a few small dog costumes for when I need a laugh and I decide to dress all my little doggies up in costumes for a day, just to create a strange and bizarre atmosphere in my house and have some fun to break up the monotony of the day.

Something a little weird I’ve been noticing about the different breeds of small dogs is that each one has it’s own dog costume “niche”–if you will–that works best for it. The chihuahuas have a few types of chihuahua costumes that work best with their short hair and huge bulging eyes; the yorkies have their costumes for yorkies that go with their tiny toy dog, formal, quaint look; the shih tzu have their onw little shih tzu costumes that work best on them, with their super long hair and that whole ancient Chinese thing going on; and the Maltese have a certain type of Maltese costume that works best with their adorable, cute little white faces. If you pay attention and you see a lot of little dogs wearing costumes for teacup dogs over and over again, I think you’ll notice this, that each breed has its own style.

More than any other type of small dog clothing costumes my chihuahua owner friends talk about when they get together, it’s the funny dog costumes that tend to dominate our conversations about chihuahua clothing and pet costumes. Smaller dog costumes that have that funny twist are just more entertaining and hilarious than the bland puppy costume, or the little doggie costumes that make an honest effort at being serious and respectable. When you dress up your little dog as a bumble bee or as crocodile prey in the middle of being devoured, or as a lion with a costume that has a huge main of lion hair that frames your chihuahuas head, you take your little dog’s cuteness and you add a humor element to it that just pushes everything over the top with dog owners and you make it almost impossible to look at your small dog without busting a gut and laughing your ass off! It’s great!

Costumes for small dogs are usually not that expensive if you shop at the top pet stores online. My favorite place to go right now when I want to pick out a new outfit is the costume for small dog section of GW Little’s online small dog boutique. They have a great selection of cool, funny little chihuahua dog costumes and they’re reasonably priced right now, so be sure to check them out. I’ll be back again very soon with another update from the zany world of small doggy costumes, so go check out GW’s selection right now, and I’ll speak to you again soon! -Mikey

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An example:  If you have a golden retriever, you’re probably not going to find too many polka dot costumes with rabbit ears for him at your local pet store.  What you will find are winter and rain coats for him in all likelihood, along with some dog boots to help protect your retriever’s pads in certain circumstances, and maybe–just maybe–you’ll see the odd Superman costume that you can hang around his neck to make him look like a ridiculously cute and hilarious K9 superhero.

But if you’ve got a smaller dog like chihuahua, you will find that same style in small dog clothing for him at the store, with a bunch of companies making warm chihuahua dog clothes and little rain coats and other apparel for small dogs in the same style as that bigger dog clothing.  But you’ll also likely find the other side of smaller dog clothing: the dog costumes for small dogs!  You’ll be able to find that rabbit costume, that farmer outfit, and that freaky pumpkin costume that you don’t quite know whether you should be laughing at it or perhaps checking yourself into a mental hospital for buying it and dressing your little dog up in it–haha!–when you go shopping for clothes for smaller dogs!  Of course not all of the customers are that extreme, and in fact you’ll often see combination clothing that are both dog coat and costume, mixing function in with the small dog fashion:

Clothing for small dogs comes in more variety in other words, and it makes owning a small breed dog a lot of fun.  It’s so much fun to dress up your little puppy in a costume outfit and walk him around the neighborhood and meet all the other dogs along the way!  And of course if you bump into a friend along the way, or if you’re back at home and your little chihuahua is there in his toy dog clothing, it’s an endless talking piece if you want to go there.

One of the best parts of there being both of these types of clothes for small dogs is that you can make your little dog wear both at the same time, so you can cover both bases at once: keeping him warm as well as making him look adorable and cute!  I actually see this a lot among chihuahua owners: they’ll put a shirt and a sweater on their dog and then over top of that have the chihuahua wearing a chiuaua clothes costume of some sort, be it a cute toy costume or a pair of fairy wings or some sort of three headed beast or some other funky kind of costume–I see it a lot, actually!  Most owners start by addressing their small dog’s need for comfort by buying the pooch sweaters and the dog coats and those shirts for keeping your dog warm; and then afterward they explore the very cool, very fun and very adorable world of small dog costumes for their chihuahua or their yorkie, or whatever little breed of dog they have!  It can be a very, very enjoyable little hobby!  Be sure to check back soon for the latest news on small dog clothing and other attire and funky, cute fashion for chihuahuas!

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