Minnesotastan wrote: "I like the apparently home-made costumes better than the store-bought ones today."
The skeleton in the front row looks store bought to me, especially since there's a kid standing near the back with the identical costume and the tall kid behind him might be wearing the same mask as well. But I agree, even they are a far cry better than the crappy costumes sold today.
Back in the '40s, our house always smelled of burnt cork on Halloween. Also, every kid went to every house Trick or Treating, and we ate everything we got. when we got home, my parents took our candy away so they could mete it out over several days so we wouldn't eat so much at once; little did they know how much we ate while we were out. Who am I kidding? They knew full well what was going on, I'm sure.
When I was a kid in the late 50s most of us had homemade costumes. Store-bought ones were too expensive. Today there's a far greater variety of cheaper costumes. True, quality-wise most of them suck.
My fondest memory was being a cardboard-box robot. I know some younger moms who think the CBR is a cop-out. Hoever mine was an all-out job thanks to my artistic mom and handyman dad...silver paint, antennae, chest dials made from pie tins, tubing for arms, the whole nine yards.
It's interesting how over the years graphic gore has filtered down to the youngest age brackets. Lots of kids tried for "scary" costumes back in the day, but they were pikers by modern standards. Still, I feel weird seeing a four-year-old in a Freddy suit or walking around with a bloody axe embedded in his forehead.
Minnesotastan wrote: "I like the apparently home-made costumes better than the store-bought ones today."
ReplyDeleteThe skeleton in the front row looks store bought to me, especially since there's a kid standing near the back with the identical costume and the tall kid behind him might be wearing the same mask as well. But I agree, even they are a far cry better than the crappy costumes sold today.
Back in the '40s, our house always smelled of burnt cork on Halloween. Also, every kid went to every house Trick or Treating, and we ate everything we got. when we got home, my parents took our candy away so they could mete it out over several days so we wouldn't eat so much at once; little did they know how much we ate while we were out. Who am I kidding? They knew full well what was going on, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in the late 50s most of us had homemade costumes. Store-bought ones were too expensive. Today there's a far greater variety of cheaper costumes. True, quality-wise most of them suck.
ReplyDeleteMy fondest memory was being a cardboard-box robot. I know some younger moms who think the CBR is a cop-out. Hoever mine was an all-out job thanks to my artistic mom and handyman dad...silver paint, antennae, chest dials made from pie tins, tubing for arms, the whole nine yards.
It's interesting how over the years graphic gore has filtered down to the youngest age brackets. Lots of kids tried for "scary" costumes back in the day, but they were pikers by modern standards. Still, I feel weird seeing a four-year-old in a Freddy suit or walking around with a bloody axe embedded in his forehead.
LOL - Thought I saw a KKK member there for a minute!
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