{"id":45473,"date":"2018-10-31T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45473"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:06:47","slug":"store-bought-halloween-costumes-of-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/store-bought-halloween-costumes-of-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Store-bought Halloween costumes of old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/why-halloween-costumes-used-to-be-terrible\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Lorenc<\/a> explains why the Halloween costumes your parents bought for you as a kid &#8230; sucked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While my husband and I were recently struggling to figure out our costumes for this Halloween (and we still don\u2019t have any idea), he pulled up some old commercials on YouTube. The off-the-shelf options that trick or treaters had were, in a word, pitiful.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, costume makers thought it was ok to make a front-only plastic mask (in any color, really) of a character and top it off with a plastic smock featuring an illustration of said character with either its name or the name of the show or movie it comes from. There was no attempt to dress in the character\u2019s actual attire. If you wanted that, you\u2019d either have to know a professional costumer or cobble together something from your closet.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look for yourself at just how costume-poor we used to be:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s-467x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s-467x640.png 467w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s-110x150.png 110w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s-438x600.png 438w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Halloween-costumes-of-the-70s-and-80s.png 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, every costume is an opportunity to generate interest in a brand or franchise, and slapping on a logo is an easy way to get a name out there, but these costumes truly heralded a dark time for Halloween. Some may even argue that it demonstrated crass consumerism at its worst, with cynical companies taking the easiest route to grabbing a couple of bucks from desperate parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaZnDRYGCRA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lorenc explains why the Halloween costumes your parents bought for you as a kid &#8230; sucked: While my husband and I were recently struggling to figure out our costumes for this Halloween (and we still don\u2019t have any idea), he pulled up some old commercials on YouTube. The off-the-shelf options that trick or treaters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,13],"tags":[263,374,618,1043],"class_list":["post-45473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-children","tag-clothing","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bPr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45532,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45473\/revisions\/45532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}