Fashion & Lifestyle Desk · The Halloween Issue
Stitched in Red
One crochet string, one felt pumpkin, one honey-blonde bob — and the coziest haunted bedroom in the Cat House. Eva Purr is this October’s reason to swipe up.
Lamplight, paper ghosts, and a look over the shoulder that says she heard you coming.
Some women dress up for Halloween. Eva Purr dresses down for it — and somehow ends up more in costume than anyone at the party. Her October look has exactly three ingredients: a hand-crocheted red string bikini, a fuzzy felt jack-o’-lantern perched on a headband, and a wavy honey-blonde bob with blunt baby bangs. That’s it. No cape, no fangs, no rented witch hat. The pumpkin does the talking, the red does the flirting, and the bob does the rest.
What makes the set sing, though, is the room. This isn’t a cold studio with a seamless backdrop. It’s a bedroom you’d actually want to wake up in — pale wood bed, ivy trailing along the headboard, two soft-toned prints of cherry blossom and lotus pinned above it, and a little army of paper ghosts drifting off the walls. A “Happy Halloween” garland in orange, black and white hangs across the corner, a beaded bedside lamp throws honey-gold light, and a monstera keeps watch by the mirror. Then, right in the middle of the floor, the star prop: a cream knit throw with long tassel fringe, puddled on the wood like it was dropped there on purpose.
“The pumpkin does the talking, the red does the flirting, and the bob does the rest.”
the look, piece by pieceTrick, Treat, Thread
Fashion editors will tell you red and orange fight. Eva didn’t get the memo, and thank goodness. The crochet bikini is a true cherry red, open-stitched and tied at the hips in loose little bows, while the felt pumpkin sits a few shades warmer. Together they read like a candle flame — hot at the center, glowing at the edges. A barely-there gold body chain catches the lamplight at her waist, and two delicate gold bracelets keep things soft.
Credits & Details
- Model
- Eva Purr
- Swim
- Hand-crocheted cherry-red string bikini, side-tie bows
- Headpiece
- Fuzzy felt jack-o’-lantern headband with green felt leaves
- Hair
- Wavy honey-blonde bob, blunt bangs, tucked behind the ears
- Face
- Coral-to-orange cut-crease eye, champagne shimmer lid, flushed peach blush, glossy berry-rose lip
- Jewelry
- Fine gold body chain, twin gold bracelets, dermal sparkle at the collarbones
- Set
- Ivy headboard, blossom & lotus prints, paper ghosts, Halloween garland, beaded lamp, cream fringed throw
- Mood
- Sugar-rush sweet with a wink of mischief
The makeup deserves its own costume credit. Up close, Eva’s eyes are washed in coral and pumpkin, with a champagne glitter lid that winks every time she blinks — literally the jack-o’-lantern’s candle, painted on. Her cheeks carry a sun-kissed peach flush, and the lip is a glossy berry-rose that she pouts straight into the lens in one frame like she’s blowing out the candle herself.
pinned to the wallSweet & Spooky, Frame by Frame
Here’s the treat: for the entire Halloween season, we’re giving Eva’s full set away in Meow Gallery — free, full screen, no membership required. Below is a taste, pinned up like the prints over her bed. The rest is one swipe away, but only while the pumpkins are still glowing.
The pout that blew out every candle in the house.
Sweetest pumpkin in the patch.
Trick and treat. Why choose?
Feet up, garland up, ghosts watching.
Golden hour, indoors edition.
Cat House Meow presents
We’re Giving Away Eva Purr
Our Halloween treat to you: Eva Purr’s entire pumpkin set is free in Meow Gallery for the whole spooky season. No tricks. No paywall. Just swipe.
- Her full set, free for the season
- Full-screen on your phone
- Swipe up, like your favorite feed
- New Cat House Cats every week
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no costume requiredHow to Find Eva in Meow Gallery
Meow Gallery is the Cat House’s full-screen photo feed — built for phones, made for one thumb. Think of it as your favorite short-video app, except every swipe is a beautifully lit photograph instead of someone’s lunch. The free side is open to everyone. No sign-up, no paywall, no catch.
- Head to the gallery. Visit cathousemeow.com/meowgallery or tap Meow Gallery in the site menu.
- Swipe up. Each photo fills your screen. Swipe to the next, swipe back if you missed something — Eva’s pumpkin set is front and center this month.
- Keep going. When you’ve had your fill of stills, hop over to Meow Movies for the same vertical, full-screen experience in motion.
- Want the after-party? Cat House Club members unlock the premium side of Meow Gallery, where the extended sets live.
🎃 Why a pumpkin, anyway?
Eva’s headband owes its whole existence to a turnip. The jack-o’-lantern traces back to Ireland’s Samhain, the old festival marking summer’s end, when carved turnips — known in Irish as Seán na Gealaí — were lit and set on doorsteps to scare off wandering spirits.1 The name comes from the folktale of Stingy Jack, a blacksmith who tricked the Devil, was turned away from both heaven and hell, and was left to roam with a single coal glowing inside a hollowed turnip.2 Pumpkins aren’t native to Ireland; they only took over the job later because they’re bigger and far kinder to the carver.2 Eva’s version, happily, is felt — no knife required.
So here’s the plan for your October: pour something warm, dim the lights to lamp-gold, and let Eva Purr show you how a single red thread and a felt pumpkin can out-costume an entire party. The ghosts on her wall have already seen the whole set. Your turn — and it’s on the house until the last jack-o’-lantern goes dark.
From The Cat House Foundation
Every swipe through Meow Gallery helps keep the lights on for something bigger. The Cat House Foundation supports wild cat conservation and animal welfare, turning the attention our Cat House Cats earn into real care for the big and small cats who can’t speak for themselves. Pleasure with purpose — it’s not a slogan, it’s the business model.
Read MoreEndnotes
- Let’s Learn Irish, “The History of the Jack-O-Lantern” (independent Irish-language resource; cites a Seán na Gealaí turnip lantern held at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Mayo). letslearnirish.com
- Irish Genealogy Toolkit, “The Story of Jack O Lantern” (independent Irish heritage site). irish-genealogy-toolkit.com
