31.10.2012

Trick or Treat – the Top 5 Halloween Costumes

31.10.2012

Trick or Treat – the Top 5 Halloween Costumes

We think Halloween costumes should be scary, crazy clever (this dog outfit is genius) or downright silly. They should never be sexy.

Halloween is one night of the year when you don’t have to worry about looking good, so we say no to skimpy catsuits and yes to making a fool of yourself instead. Never mind which shade of vampire lipstick is most flattering – the real fun lies in scaring the wits out of every passing ghoul.

Any naysayers using the ‘consumerist’ anti-Halloween angle should be reminded that the tradition of costumes at Halloween was actually recorded in Celtic practice as far back as 1895, when ‘guisers’ in Scotland would dress up for the Samhain festival (which later evolved into what we know as Halloween). Revellers in the UK and US caught up in 1900, when costumes celebrated the pagan and gothic spirit of the holiday. It was not until the 1930s that people began to embrace costumes depicting their favourite film, literature, and radio characters. And from here the holiday has spiralled out of control – in a good way, of course.

The anti-consumerists do have a point, though: like Christmas, this is a holiday that people are seriously willing to splurge on. The National Retail Federation predicts that the average American will spend about $80 this year on sweets, costumes and decorations, and in the UK YouGov predicts a total of £268m will be blown on treats, dressing up, and party food and drink.

Surprisingly considering the boom in ever-more creative zombie getups, the five most popular adults’ Halloween costumes are still quite traditional (we’re not happy about the nurse’s outfit, unless it is a truly disgusting undead nurse):

1.Witch

2.Pirate

3.Vampire

4.Cat

5. (tie) Fairy or Nurse

We’ll be sharing our favourite Halloween costumes of 2012 on our Facebook page and we’d love to see yours too. So get dressed up, prepare your camera for some bone-chilling shots (Zombiematic Camera app), try not to pout, and go say boo to a ghost.

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