Halloween Costume Ideas - Home-made To Commercial And Back
Among Baby Boomers, Halloween costume ideas grew out of home invention and labor
, or were simple and cheap items available at the supermarket. As the Boomers raised their own kids, however, costumes became more fancy and expensive. Pop icons and movies supplied many of the characters on the retail shelves. Ecologically sensitive consumers reacted by returning to DIY for generating Halloween costume ideas at the turn of the millennium.
On the one hand, characters from Hollywood blockbusters and Disney animated features have crowded the retail outlets in recent decades, and thereby the streets, shopping malls, and private parties on All Hallows Eve. Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Avengers, Batman, Shrek, zombies, and a series of Disney Princes have become easy to find online or in seasonal costume stores. The Toy Story movies not only created Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie, new cartoon characters to love and emulate, but revived old standbys from the childhoods of the Baby Boomers, such as Mr. Potato Head and Barbie.
On the other hand, some Americans have decided that home-made outfits are both more inventive and less ecologically unsound. They choose not to purchase one-time-use costumes and accessories that may well end up in a landfill. Buying costumes, for some consumers, is not a green choice.
Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating do not have a long history. In 1895, public masqueraders first turned up in Scotland, but not in England, Ireland, or the United States until after the turn of the century.
For a while, people made all their Halloween costumes at home. It was in the 1930s that several companies, among them Ben Cooper, Inc., and A.S. Fishbach, Inc., started to manufacture and sell Halloween costumes through retail outlets. Most of them were devils, vampires, ghosts, witches, and the creatures and aliens that populated movies in the science-fiction and horror genres.
In the latter half of the century, historical and political figures, sports figures and other celebrities, and cartoon characters increasingly took the stage among trick-or-treaters. Because of the unreality of the occasion, some older teens and grown women took the opportunity on Halloween to wear sexy and revealing outfits that showed more skin than would normally be acceptable in public.
Some Americans have also purchased special costumes for their pets and babies on Halloween. They dress their long-suffering canines as birds, insects, machines, dinosaurs, or caped superheroes. Infants become bears, honeybees, frogs, and penguins. (Most cat owners automatically avoid trying to stick their fussy feline in a Halloween costume.)
Green-minded shoppers know that a brief web search easily locates websites that offer simple and easy DIY Halloween costume ideas. A few online sites delineate last-minute creative ideas. Recycling has come to Halloween, as well: thrift stores like Goodwill not only sell raw materials for building your own costume, they also provide commercial costumes that got dumped on the market by retail outlets that shut down or merely wanted to make room for their new stock.
by: Denisy Lii
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