The Costumes for the Parade Each samba school has a person in charge of creating the costumes that are going to be used each year. After the prototypes are ready, women from the school community start to sew the costumes. They must always be related to the theme and have the school's colors. Mangueira's colors are green and pink. As you can see in the pictures below, these are the colors that appear the most in the costumes. Here are costumes used by Mangueira's percussionists during carnival 2002.   This one below is from carnival 2000.   The costumes often have bright ornaments to make a beautiful effect in the avenue.   Below is one of the costumes from carnival 2001 being presented at Mangueira. © Mangueira       * Back to the Carnival in Rio Menu *     This page was created on: January 20th 2002. Last updated on: January 10th 2006. [ Site Index ] [ Home ]   | Back to the Brazilian Menu |  ~ Miss Price Graphics ~ Graphics by Irene ~ Country Patch Collections ~ Midi "Tico-Tico no Fubá" by the Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu.  Nothing in this site is Public Domain. Graphics are copyrighted by various artists and are used with permission. Please, click on the links above to visit the sites were you can download the graphics from. Do not save anything from my pages, please.