Cheezy Old Halloween Costumes

[RCMerchant]

 The Halloween candy thread made me think of the goofy (and cheap) Halloween costumes  of the past...so I went to ebay and poked around...thought I would share them....

 I  actually HAD this very mask when I was about 7 years old! No suit...just a mask. I remember as a kid when we would wear these things that it would be chilly outside...and snot would run down our faces,and you could hardly breath-the inside of the mask would get all spitty and nasty...!
         
                     

 I like this one! Recognize the Metaluna Mutant?

                       

 2 Frankensteins....( My dad would buy us kids our suits...my older brother Mike ALWAYS got Frankenstien...I would get stuck with a skeleton. Once I even got stuck with a witch mask...because Dad though it was a pirate. Ugh!)

 

 Wanna be a Vampire-?

 

 BATMAN, the MUMMY (?), the HULK!

 

 ...more generic stuff....

 

 This one cracks me up! Any kid would be embaressed to wear a phony SPIDERMAN suit! I can hear them now!
 " That's not the REAL Spiderman!"-"So? I'm his brother! I'm the EVIL Spiderman! He's cooler!"
   
   

 Finally...an oldie from the 1950's..some kinda alien or ghoul...!

   

         

[CheezeFlixz]

Oh the good ol days when kids could ACTUALLY go house to house trick or treating ... after dark even. Unlike today when you go downtown to businesses in full daylight. The times they are a changin'.

[ulthar]

Oh the good ol days when kids could ACTUALLY go house to house trick or treating ... after dark even. Unlike today when you go downtown to businesses in full daylight. The times they are a changin'.

Huh?

Come to our neighborhood.  You'll have a good time.

[Susan]

kids can't go trick or treating at night anymore.

Not since they extended daylight savings time. Can we sign a petition or something to put it back the way it was? 8 months of daylight savings, 4 months of real time...wtf

ps you guys were lucky to have those costumes. I only wore a storebought costume once and that was back in 1977 and i was a giant shiny bunny. Every year thereafter my costumes were homemade

[Mr. DS]

I love nostalgia stuff like this.  Here is how I rolled back in the mid-80s with my stylin' Pac-Man outfit.  Don't ask about the clowns, they still haunt me.

[Allhallowsday]

In the 1960s, I had a FRANKENSTEIN costume very like the one you showed, Bela, on the right side... I collect old Halloween, but these are pix I've grabbed from online auctions:

[RCMerchant]

 I like the Woolworths ad! 

 


 Of all these...of course I would choose the SHOCK MONSTER!!!

[Susan]

I like the Woolworths ad! 

 


 Of all these...of course I would choose the SHOCK MONSTER!!!

i like the pricetag. seen how much rubber masks costs nowadays?

[RCMerchant]

i like the pricetag. seen how much rubber masks costs nowadays?
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 You would have to add a coupla zeros on to them prices now...these were from the 60's...collectors buy and sell their souls for this stuff! YIKES!

[AndyC]

I consider myself lucky that my parents would never buy me one of those pre-made plastic costumes. There were a couple of years when I really wanted one, but we always had to scavenge for our costumes. Didn't take me long to figure out homemade, improvised costumes were a lot more fun anyway. I think by the first or second grade I'd already started questioning how a plastic coverall with a character's name and picture qualified as a costume. You might as well go door to door in your regular clothes and tell people who you're supposed to be.

I did once use one of the plastic masks as part of a costume though. Old Bob from The Black Hole. It was part of my cardboard and tinfoil robot costume.

Today, the ready-made costumes have gotten much better, and some parents go as far as to make high-quality costumes for their kids, but I still think scavenging for a homemade costume is better. There's more creativity and imagination involved, and it makes for some pretty satisfying memories.

By the way, this thread reminded me of a favourite SNL sketch:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Bpk5vixuY

[Raffine]

"Sheesh! Whateveeer!" This Metaluna Mutant seems to say.

I

think by the first or second grade I'd already started questioning how a plastic coverall with a character's name and picture qualified as a costume.

Yep, that's about how far I got before I realized having my 'Dracula' costume have 'DRACULA!' printed across the front in huge letters sort of missed the point and was extremely lame. My good ol' mom actually made me a bonafide 'Dracula' cape (complete with red lining!) when I was about seven.

One year I decided to go as a do-it-myself 'Wolfman'. I got one of those really cheap black costume wigs, cut it up, and glued pieces to my face. Add fangs and ratty clothes. I wound up looking more like a mangy version of 'JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy' but I thought it looked awesome.     

[Khaz]

How 'bout the good old "lets just wrap you up in toilet paper and you can be a mummy?" costume? I had that one tossed on me when I was about 7. That night it rained and by the ends i looked like a spitwad rather than a mummy.

[AndyC]

OK, I had to go back and find this one again. This turned up in the same image search as the Megaforce photo I posted in Humorous Captions.

If you thought those other store-bought plastic costumes were cheesy, you ain't seen this:


Boy, what little girl didn't want to trick-or-treat as bald Persis Khambatta? Little boys too. I mean, she was a  real fan favourite, right up there with Khan, and particularly popular with the kids.......right?

Ah, the days when movie merchandising was not so much the exact science it is today.

[Susan]

After reading through this thread i thought you guys might enjoy reading

THIS

I don't know what's weirder, Chachi or dressing up as the Asteroids game

[AndyC]

Karma to you, Susan. That had me laughing out loud from beginning to end.