From companies selling Caitlyn Jenner getups to celebrities dressing up like Cecil the Lion, Halloween costume controversy has been in the headlines weeks, even months in advance of the October holiday. Consumers will spend $350 million on “fashionable and fun costumes for their furry friends”. But what costumes are the biggest craze this year?! In 2015, when there are two female candidates for President of the United States, when there have been positive strides to close the wage gap, when women are feeling more optimistic about their futures in the workplace-being a competent, gainfully employed woman is still a costume?
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It turns out that bumble bees, pumpkins, and superheroes ranked the highest.
There’s always those off-the-wall Halloween costumes for pets that have a less dignified look.
Costumes for adults are expected to fetch up to $1.2 billion, compared to the $950 million predicted for children’s costumes. Go trick or treating in one of these animal Halloween costumes: cat, lion, leopard, cheetah, fly, insect, bee, bug, ladybug, spider, chicken, tiger, panther, bat, dog, frog, bear, butterfly, bird and others.
“We’re getting a lot of Star Wars requests”.
Monaster, Thomas Candy corn is now available year round, changing from the early years when it was only available during the fall. Don’t, we repeat, do not be one of those people who buys a costume in a bag at a Halloween super store.
One last note is that the more luxurious elements of Halloween are less popular this year: 18% of those surveyed say they’ll attend a haunted house, and 13.0% plan to dress their pet or pets in a costume. Petco has a contest called “Make a Scene” for photos posted on Instagram.
Facebook will deliver a few results with “pet Halloween costume” contests, too.
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The idea of sexy Halloween costumes was probably created to push women into boxes from which they weren’t supposed to be able to break out.
