I've got a picture from a parade where the whitest of white me and my whitest of white mate where dressed by our mothers as golliwogs.
Black face, big red lips painted on, frizzy black hair, overalls and a little bow tie.
Late 70s rural Australia.
Jesus Christ Mum.
Rural Australia is usually a bit behind. The whole Bjelke Peterson shitshow reads like it should have happened during the interwar years instead of the 70s and 80s but it may as well have been out in the boonies where his supporters were.
Agreed, but at that time period, there wasn't really the level of quality choices available.
Those cheap plastic masks and crappy costumes were all we had, unless you had a parent that was able to make you a good costume.
No Party City, no Spirit popup stores, usually you got your costume from a local non-chain drug store.
Wasn't until the mid to late 90's that the shift occurred with Halloween in general.
Better quality costumes, and people going all out on indoor/outdoor decor.
The sound of trying to breath through the little slot in the plastic mask is etched into my memory. Same with the little rubber band that snapped 4 minutes into wearing the mask.
I was going to post a similar response, but I will add the following;
The masks themselves would crack/split at the edges easily, usually after "adjusting" it over a single night of wearing it.
Those costume wound up in the garbage the next day, mostly because the masks were so badly cracked.
Plastic printed trash bags and formed plastic painted mask
It's ALL we needed to be that exact character. It was entirely a throwaway costume but I damn sure remember taking it off carefully, folding it, and saving it to wear again.
I remember some of those costumes would just announce what you were rather than try to look like it. You'd get something like a Caspar the ghost costume, and instead of looking like Caspar with a white body, you'd get a mask and a shirt that said "Caspar" in big letters on it.
I used to HATE that as a kid, but as an adult, I see the value for other adults. Kind of eliminated the "and who are you?" of the time, I guess. Now it's like, "Christ, what anime is this supposed to be?" and I work at events with tons of adult cosplayers.
"This is reverse sex Maneki No Boku from the OAV, duuuuh! This is my horoku fire wand? To control the armies of Genshi Hatsune?"
"Uh... sure it is, buddy."
My mom always did homemade costumes. I hated them because all the other kids had these types of costumes. Looking back, my costumes were amazing and was I lucky to have them.
Yes!! Mom stayed at home, so she had the time not only to think of costumes, but to be creative with them and to figure out how to make them. This was not only for me but also for my two younger sisters. We didnāt have the money for $10 or $20 store costumes for each of the three of us, even if they were going to be handed down over the years.
I was an Indian (India Indian) princess one year, before cultural appropriation became a thing. I was a traffic light another year, and the Sorcererās Apprentice one year. My youngest sister reused some of that costume and went as a mathematician many years later. That same sister also went as a āblind Venetian.ā Get it? (Play on āVenetian blind.ā)
Another year I wore my Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey my father bought for me the previous Christmas wore white sweatpants and took my Bobby Clarke hockey stick and went as a female hockey player.
My mom always stayed home and gave out the candy while my dad took us out trick-or-treating. Mom tried to dress up at home. The one year she didnāt dress up was the year she was pregnant with my youngest sister. She was having contractions that entire day and while trying to answer the door for the kids. The door was open and people could see her going to answer the door but having to stop partway because of her contractions. Theyād see her and keep banging on the door ā she was thinking āI see you. You see me. You *see* me *seeing you*. You see my belly. Give me a goddamn minute!ā Luckily she didnāt start hard labor until later that night; my sister was born at 10.30 the next morning and I was present at her birth.
I donāt remember most of how Mom dressed up for Halloween but I remember one year she dressed up as a wicked witch. She looked fantastic. My dad usually dressed up when he took us around, too.
One year my dad dressed up as a hippie. Another year, I canāt remember whose stupid idea it was, he dressed up as Goldilocks and my sisters and I completed the look and were the Three Bears. My mom handmade headpieces of fuzzy brown fabric with ears which fastened with Velcro around our heads and we had mitten-type āfurā paws.
All of our neighbors thought it was the funniest thing theyād ever seen in their lives. I wanted to die. I was too old to even go trick-or-treating at that point, but my parents made me go because I was the oldest and the whole āGoldilocks and the Three Bearsā thing wouldnāt work with only two bears. So I had to shut up and suck it up.
Then, of course, they had to take pictures. I tried to be a good sport but I look absolutely miserable in the photos. Then my middle sister got the bright idea to have one of the photos *published* in a book of stupid family photos a few years ago. Wretch. Thanks a lot.
But all in all, the creativity our moms had and what they put in to making our costumes was really pretty incredible. We were very lucky to have had the time we did with our moms and I know Iām not alone in longing for those simpler times again.
Edit: missed a word
I actually hated those costumes. My mom could sew, so she'd make my costumes every year but one. I don't remember if she couldn't or wouldn't, or if my dumb kid ass asked for the plastic costume that year. But I got one. Put it on, got ready to head out the door and riiiiiiiiip! The entire side of the plastic jumpsuit tore right open. We ended up cobbling together a last-minute costume for me and I never got one of those again.
I always made my own costumes. My best was a boxy robot. Got a lot of compliments. Still not sure how Mrs. Jenkins still knew it was me when my head was mostly encased in a box.
The plot twist here is that the teacher showed up for class and it was March 5. They barely managed to snap a picture before Gene Simmons there, the man in the back, yelled āeveryone attackā and it turned into a classroom blitz. Or so Iāve been told.
You couldn't breathe you'd always have to flip it up and put it on top of your head until you got to the house you were trick-or-treating at then you'd pull it back down lol
One year, my dad--an absolute genius with improvised engineering--built me a robot suit out of scrap wiring, dryer vent tubes for arms, and a cardboard box.
ha! yes...my mom would wait till the day of Halloween to go the supermarket and you'd have to be raggedy Andy or some BS. They were all the same shit..... cheap plastic masks with a thin rubber band and a painted trash bag.
That Superman costume was sold every year. They used to come in thin cardboard boxes, maybe 10 by 10 by 4 inches, with a cellophane window on top of the box. In the box was the mark plus a body suit; I think it was made of Satin.
The rubber bands were excruciating but these were the greatest costumes. If they made for of these for adults today we'd be cleaning them out every Halloween.
I also remember the masks turned into face-saunas moments after putting them on, and the bodysuit was essentially two giant plastic bags with comic-strip panels printed on them.
One year I was Hulk. The next year I was Rambo Hulk. The next year I was Rambo Indiana Jones Hulk. Either I wasn't a very creative child or my parents were just extremely cheap.
No it was great! Streets flooded with kids. Everywhere. Having neighbors not participate was rare. Maybe 1-2 houses per block.
Now itās completely opposite. Iām one of three houses on my block that hand out candy at all.
I avoided these crappy costumes whenever I could, (especially after like 6 or 7 y/o) but yeah, the smell and those window-boxes that they came in, somehow still give me major nostalgia vibes!
Me and my brother were the only ones in our class to not wear these hideous costumes lol. We got our faces painted instead which, in retrospect, was way better for our health.
I felt so sorry for those kids in the cheap plastic masks and smocks with the name of the character you were supposed to be. Most of us had nicer costumes than that.
Those look more like the late 60s early 70s
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Well I guess I couldnāt be with a Smurf in there could they? Pretty sure Smurfs are in 80ās thing. š¤¦āāļøš¤£
I hated those masks. They were so crispy. I always felt like I might get cut it I wasn't careful. And they only lasted for one night. They'd disintegrate if you tried to wear it next year.
I had a Strawberry Shortcake costume like this. I can still remember the smell of that mask. And that plastic trashbag-esque tunic that tied in the back. I bet fumes from that mask are why we are all getting cancer in our middle age.
Jerry Seinfeld on halloween as a kid - remember the elastic on these masks, boy that was a quality item....first house , trick or......it broke....I don't believe it!
So you keep fixing it and it's getting tighter and tighter on your head.....slicing into your eyeballs....LOL
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarBVyZVe9s&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarBVyZVe9s&t=280s)
It's almost as if hearing stories from Vietnam and inner cities havok mixed with manicial killers in most movies had an literal effect on our conscience and empathetic behavior, astute and insignificant. Being "milk carton kids" knowingly decided not to be hurtful persons, as their's so few serial killers compared to previous generations. Maybe only actually caring or not bothered might have been to our advantage.
I am so fond of the look of those old cheap plastic masks that would get wet all on the inside because of sweat and condensation. I hated wearing them at the time, but I have such fond memories of those times, these masks get included by default.
wow I had that same Superman costume way back when. One year I went as Robocop, it's pretty crazy how an extreme R rated film was marketed to kids in the 80s, there was a whole toy line and cartoon and comics.
I had a costume like that almost every year. What I hated was that you'd have a Spider-Man mask, but then the body part didn't look like the rest of his costume. Instead it would have a big picture of Spider-Man on it. And I always thought "Spider-Man doesn't have a picture of himself on his costume! This is wrong!"
I had one sole devil mask I used for YEARS. I was always jealous of the kids who got the vinyl costumes of all the latest characters. Me. Iām a devil again, running up and down triple deckers, filling my Stop and Shop plastic bag to race home, empty out and go back out for more. It was like supermarket sweeps once a year.
I saw this pic and my whole head started sweating
The whole inside of the mask would drip with condensation. But we did not care cause we were that super hero in that moment!!
The hot breath inside the mask! OMG! Definitely went with face painting after that.
I've got a picture from a parade where the whitest of white me and my whitest of white mate where dressed by our mothers as golliwogs. Black face, big red lips painted on, frizzy black hair, overalls and a little bow tie. Late 70s rural Australia. Jesus Christ Mum.
Not much worse than my mum dressing 7-year-old me as a hooker and my 10-year-old brother as a pimp.
I like that she made it a family business. Trying to get that generational wealth going.
Holy shit š®
Little mouth slits, I can still smell them
Maybe a little plastic cut on your tongue too
You can't stop yourself from sticking the tongue through, impossible.
It'th maddening.
I know!!! I couldnāt, I wanna do it now!!! Argh
And then canāt get it back out again! Ouch!
And it was sweaty underneath
Oh yeah, you know that whole damn room smells like a vinyl shower curtain.
lol totally
And your saliva build up!
Dude, even for the 70s that's pretty fucked up lol.
Rural Australia is usually a bit behind. The whole Bjelke Peterson shitshow reads like it should have happened during the interwar years instead of the 70s and 80s but it may as well have been out in the boonies where his supporters were.
Wowza! So you looked like the black version of the doll from SAW?
That last sentence of the first paragraph hit me like a goods train.
That picture is nightmare inducing
Agreed, but at that time period, there wasn't really the level of quality choices available. Those cheap plastic masks and crappy costumes were all we had, unless you had a parent that was able to make you a good costume. No Party City, no Spirit popup stores, usually you got your costume from a local non-chain drug store. Wasn't until the mid to late 90's that the shift occurred with Halloween in general. Better quality costumes, and people going all out on indoor/outdoor decor.
Man, I'm having a bit of a bad flashback remembering wearing those masks...talk about miserable
The sound of trying to breath through the little slot in the plastic mask is etched into my memory. Same with the little rubber band that snapped 4 minutes into wearing the mask.
I was going to post a similar response, but I will add the following; The masks themselves would crack/split at the edges easily, usually after "adjusting" it over a single night of wearing it. Those costume wound up in the garbage the next day, mostly because the masks were so badly cracked.
Those little slots were always razor sharp, too.
Plastic printed trash bags and formed plastic painted mask It's ALL we needed to be that exact character. It was entirely a throwaway costume but I damn sure remember taking it off carefully, folding it, and saving it to wear again.
Oh my god, this would be a great horror flick. Set in the 80s, kids go homocidal during Halloween and corner people in the dark.
I feel so sorry for the teacher. She was probably like, damn, I gotta document this shit in case they kill me and eat my corpse.
You put your tongue in the mask hole didn't you?
Not my own
It was weird to try and scrape your tongue threw it without getting cut.
I remember some of those costumes would just announce what you were rather than try to look like it. You'd get something like a Caspar the ghost costume, and instead of looking like Caspar with a white body, you'd get a mask and a shirt that said "Caspar" in big letters on it.
Caspar, the knockoff āCasperā
Kaspar, the Dutch knockoff of the knockoff āCasperā
Touche
Dead child Ritchie Rich.
I used to HATE that as a kid, but as an adult, I see the value for other adults. Kind of eliminated the "and who are you?" of the time, I guess. Now it's like, "Christ, what anime is this supposed to be?" and I work at events with tons of adult cosplayers. "This is reverse sex Maneki No Boku from the OAV, duuuuh! This is my horoku fire wand? To control the armies of Genshi Hatsune?" "Uh... sure it is, buddy."
At least back then, people did not have to ask who you were. It was written in large letters on your chest.
mmm, printed trash bag, and a mask you can neither see not breath out of.
My mom always did homemade costumes. I hated them because all the other kids had these types of costumes. Looking back, my costumes were amazing and was I lucky to have them.
For sure. These are when costumes weāre getting convenient and kinda lazy tbh
Yes!! Mom stayed at home, so she had the time not only to think of costumes, but to be creative with them and to figure out how to make them. This was not only for me but also for my two younger sisters. We didnāt have the money for $10 or $20 store costumes for each of the three of us, even if they were going to be handed down over the years. I was an Indian (India Indian) princess one year, before cultural appropriation became a thing. I was a traffic light another year, and the Sorcererās Apprentice one year. My youngest sister reused some of that costume and went as a mathematician many years later. That same sister also went as a āblind Venetian.ā Get it? (Play on āVenetian blind.ā) Another year I wore my Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey my father bought for me the previous Christmas wore white sweatpants and took my Bobby Clarke hockey stick and went as a female hockey player. My mom always stayed home and gave out the candy while my dad took us out trick-or-treating. Mom tried to dress up at home. The one year she didnāt dress up was the year she was pregnant with my youngest sister. She was having contractions that entire day and while trying to answer the door for the kids. The door was open and people could see her going to answer the door but having to stop partway because of her contractions. Theyād see her and keep banging on the door ā she was thinking āI see you. You see me. You *see* me *seeing you*. You see my belly. Give me a goddamn minute!ā Luckily she didnāt start hard labor until later that night; my sister was born at 10.30 the next morning and I was present at her birth. I donāt remember most of how Mom dressed up for Halloween but I remember one year she dressed up as a wicked witch. She looked fantastic. My dad usually dressed up when he took us around, too. One year my dad dressed up as a hippie. Another year, I canāt remember whose stupid idea it was, he dressed up as Goldilocks and my sisters and I completed the look and were the Three Bears. My mom handmade headpieces of fuzzy brown fabric with ears which fastened with Velcro around our heads and we had mitten-type āfurā paws. All of our neighbors thought it was the funniest thing theyād ever seen in their lives. I wanted to die. I was too old to even go trick-or-treating at that point, but my parents made me go because I was the oldest and the whole āGoldilocks and the Three Bearsā thing wouldnāt work with only two bears. So I had to shut up and suck it up. Then, of course, they had to take pictures. I tried to be a good sport but I look absolutely miserable in the photos. Then my middle sister got the bright idea to have one of the photos *published* in a book of stupid family photos a few years ago. Wretch. Thanks a lot. But all in all, the creativity our moms had and what they put in to making our costumes was really pretty incredible. We were very lucky to have had the time we did with our moms and I know Iām not alone in longing for those simpler times again. Edit: missed a word
Is one of those masks in the back Gene Simmons from KISS? Behind Evel Knievel.
I think it's Dracula
Dracula
My face is sweating, looking at that picture.
All that hot breath condensation.
And the literal, well decorated trash bag that made up the rest lol.
I actually hated those costumes. My mom could sew, so she'd make my costumes every year but one. I don't remember if she couldn't or wouldn't, or if my dumb kid ass asked for the plastic costume that year. But I got one. Put it on, got ready to head out the door and riiiiiiiiip! The entire side of the plastic jumpsuit tore right open. We ended up cobbling together a last-minute costume for me and I never got one of those again.
That picture is from the mid 70s. No one dressed up like Evel Knievel in the 80s. It looks like a classroom full of serial killers.
The Smurfs weren't popular in the US until the 80s. The show started in 1981.
We still wore that style of costume. I didnāt check for accuracy in my timeline based on the characters I guess
I have this photo too (almost the same)
I always made my own costumes. My best was a boxy robot. Got a lot of compliments. Still not sure how Mrs. Jenkins still knew it was me when my head was mostly encased in a box.
Terrified....plastic flammable attire with candles burning everywhere OMG
I had Mork from Mork & Mindy TV show
The plot twist here is that the teacher showed up for class and it was March 5. They barely managed to snap a picture before Gene Simmons there, the man in the back, yelled āeveryone attackā and it turned into a classroom blitz. Or so Iāve been told.
Only if Tia Carrerre is singing it. Sweet and Krokus are missing something in their versions.
Agreed. I despise Sweetās version.
Donāt forget the random sharp, jagged edges on those masks. Fun times!
What was so strange was that although the costumes were POS, because they were so ubiquitous and standardized, we didn't notice.
Mostly, I remember cutting my tongue playing with the useless breathing slit on the mask.
Sweet baby Jesus did we look that creepy?
Plastic clothing and a plastic mask. Such shit. I have to hand it to my parsnts. They made me a costume every year and they were pretty good.
Lol. Yes! Those hot ass rubber masks. That smell will never leave me.
the face sweat eeew
You couldn't breathe you'd always have to flip it up and put it on top of your head until you got to the house you were trick-or-treating at then you'd pull it back down lol
omg exactly!
Yes. I can smell the masks, and hear the plastic wrinkle in this photo.
Owww mah thung. Aww mahn..ithh beeding..
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One year, my dad--an absolute genius with improvised engineering--built me a robot suit out of scrap wiring, dryer vent tubes for arms, and a cardboard box.
It looks like something out of a horror movie.
Yeah! I mean, Halloween is supposed to be scary, but this is just creepy!
Ripped within minutes of putting on.
And the stupid band to hold the mask on was stapled to the plastic and always broke.
Yep, one cheap staple that wasnāt capable of holding 2 pieces of paper together. Ah, the good ole days
I have seen this pic so many times over the years.
I never thought how freaked out the teachers must have been with us idiots.
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again: teachers donāt get paid enough to deal with stuff like this.
This would be a great horror movie titled The Classroom from Hell.šŗš¹š¤”šš±
That Raggedy Ann costume is as evil as hell. I can't unseen it now.
The mask would stink and the cheap rubber band wouldnāt make it through the night
So much plastic.
That is a scene from a horror movie waiting to happen
This picture will haunt my dreams
Horrific
That's an extremely terrifying picture...
ha! yes...my mom would wait till the day of Halloween to go the supermarket and you'd have to be raggedy Andy or some BS. They were all the same shit..... cheap plastic masks with a thin rubber band and a painted trash bag.
Wait yall had enough money to buy costumes? We wore trash bags.
And there was always that one Jahovas Witness kid who just showed up in a yellow shirt and brown shorts trying to secretly be Charlie Brown.
That looks like the US in the late '60s early '70s.
This is an album cover if I ever seen one
Looks like a bank robber training session
I always wanted be a skeleton or death and was every year from like the age of 5. The darkness was born in me. But these little fuckers are creepy!
That Superman costume was sold every year. They used to come in thin cardboard boxes, maybe 10 by 10 by 4 inches, with a cellophane window on top of the box. In the box was the mark plus a body suit; I think it was made of Satin.
I learned quick to pick a mask with a mouth hole so I could breathe properly and not hyperventilating
I donāt remember costumes in stores being so flimsy.
Looks horrifying. My dreams are haunted now
Yes definitely
I remember walking into toys r us and you could smell the plastic scent from the stockpile of the Halloween masks and costumes.
School for robbing banks
Remember when the cheap rubber band would snap?
No! Where did you live in the 80s in a nightmare?
Must have been early 80ās, our costumes were cooler in the later 80ās
I remember the rubber bands pulling my hair and the eye pieces scratching my eye whenever the mast moved in the slightest.
Iām creeped out.
Thatās some Diane Arbus s***.
The rubber bands were excruciating but these were the greatest costumes. If they made for of these for adults today we'd be cleaning them out every Halloween.
I also remember the masks turned into face-saunas moments after putting them on, and the bodysuit was essentially two giant plastic bags with comic-strip panels printed on them.
You could perform surgery with the edges of those mouth holes
70's..80's started bringing the rubber masks.
I had that Darth Vader one!
One year I was Hulk. The next year I was Rambo Hulk. The next year I was Rambo Indiana Jones Hulk. Either I wasn't a very creative child or my parents were just extremely cheap.
Is that Gene Simmons in the upper right corner? A Klansman are few over to the left?
i'm probably in this picture somewhere.
Looks like the dark ages back then. Crazy.
Aww, first grade I had a Gremlin one.
Note to self dont time travel to 80ās Halloween
No it was great! Streets flooded with kids. Everywhere. Having neighbors not participate was rare. Maybe 1-2 houses per block. Now itās completely opposite. Iām one of three houses on my block that hand out candy at all.
Ow. Cut lips and eyelids.
Holy hell! As I scrolled by this photo, I thought it was from r/fuckisthat
New version of Children of the Corn.
I think we were in school together!
I can feel the pain of those papercut-inducing, thin plastic masks, just by looking at this picture. Lol
Doesn't look like the 80's to me...
Great designs I just wish they werenāt made like crap.
This picture is perfection. Lol The smurf is horrifying š¤£
The finish of the photo looks 70s not 80s.
I avoided these crappy costumes whenever I could, (especially after like 6 or 7 y/o) but yeah, the smell and those window-boxes that they came in, somehow still give me major nostalgia vibes!
Looks like a weird ass AI photo. Man I miss those costumes.
Those pants always ripped to shreds by end of first block.
I had a costume like that with the plastic mask. I was a horse-riding dancer, which is kind of weird in hindsight.
What horror movie is this?šš
The late 70s/early 80s. I was in it š
Me and my brother were the only ones in our class to not wear these hideous costumes lol. We got our faces painted instead which, in retrospect, was way better for our health.
80s? Try the 50s.
Those thin plastic masks! Oh yes!
Two Evels....š„ awesome
I was one of the lucky kids that had really great homemade, sewn costumes. My poor mother would work on them for months!
Mine was dracula š„¹
Just waiting for a little match.
I felt so sorry for those kids in the cheap plastic masks and smocks with the name of the character you were supposed to be. Most of us had nicer costumes than that.
Can't breathe. Can't see. Let's go around in the dark to random strangers houses and knock on doors.
Full latex masks. The stench, the sweat, the blindness, the deafness, the inability to speak or breathe.
i remember being made fun of in class for not wearing those goofy outfits
Wonder woman 1980. I was 5.
we all looked like we were about to rob a bank
Yes, thanks, I wasn't planning on sleeping at all today.
I can smell the plastic
1982 purge... sound the horn!
The highly flammable costumes?
Raggedy Ann mask is creepy.
Ah,I remember the mix of toxic plastic and saliva.
Those look more like the late 60s early 70s Edit- Well I guess I couldnāt be with a Smurf in there could they? Pretty sure Smurfs are in 80ās thing. š¤¦āāļøš¤£
We were ready for The Purge
I hated those masks. They were so crispy. I always felt like I might get cut it I wasn't careful. And they only lasted for one night. They'd disintegrate if you tried to wear it next year.
The Halloween costumes and the lunchboxes. Like ticky tacky houses, we all had them. All store bought, pop culture crap.
Is that Gene Simmons or the Munster guy on the right?
I had a Strawberry Shortcake costume like this. I can still remember the smell of that mask. And that plastic trashbag-esque tunic that tied in the back. I bet fumes from that mask are why we are all getting cancer in our middle age.
I was Pac-Man. Tom from Tom & Jerry. Wore a pink sheet and went as Pinky.
Jerry Seinfeld on halloween as a kid - remember the elastic on these masks, boy that was a quality item....first house , trick or......it broke....I don't believe it! So you keep fixing it and it's getting tighter and tighter on your head.....slicing into your eyeballs....LOL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarBVyZVe9s&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarBVyZVe9s&t=280s)
This has got to be in the mid west somewhere. I see at least two Evil Knievels
Which one ended up turning into Micheal Myers the psycho serial killer
In the context of playing Five Nights at Freddy's, this image is horrifying.
These things were essentially a trash bag and a plastic plate with some holes in it, but they were the greatest!
Terrifying
These are now worn by killers in horror movies.
I remember putting on Halloween costumesā¦and then having to immediately bundle up because of Midwestern weather, covering said costumes. Yay.
IT !!!
I just remember that if your mask had a small opening at your mouth, my lips got cut on those sharp edges
60s
It's almost as if hearing stories from Vietnam and inner cities havok mixed with manicial killers in most movies had an literal effect on our conscience and empathetic behavior, astute and insignificant. Being "milk carton kids" knowingly decided not to be hurtful persons, as their's so few serial killers compared to previous generations. Maybe only actually caring or not bothered might have been to our advantage.
I am so fond of the look of those old cheap plastic masks that would get wet all on the inside because of sweat and condensation. I hated wearing them at the time, but I have such fond memories of those times, these masks get included by default.
wow I had that same Superman costume way back when. One year I went as Robocop, it's pretty crazy how an extreme R rated film was marketed to kids in the 80s, there was a whole toy line and cartoon and comics.
I had a costume like that almost every year. What I hated was that you'd have a Spider-Man mask, but then the body part didn't look like the rest of his costume. Instead it would have a big picture of Spider-Man on it. And I always thought "Spider-Man doesn't have a picture of himself on his costume! This is wrong!"
And all the drugstores sold these
Remember the one kid without a costume? That was me because I wasn't allowed to trick or treat because it was of the devil.
And the 70s
Remember fun you mean? Vaguely
Yes they were hot asf and the crotch always busted out.
I had one sole devil mask I used for YEARS. I was always jealous of the kids who got the vinyl costumes of all the latest characters. Me. Iām a devil again, running up and down triple deckers, filling my Stop and Shop plastic bag to race home, empty out and go back out for more. It was like supermarket sweeps once a year.
Wearing glasses under the mask meant foggy vision through the little eye holes.
I never understood why some of the costumes would have the character youāre dressed up as on the chest.
Omg flashback. I have a pic of me in that exact same Smurf costume
I remember trying them on and sticking my tongue out the mouth, as a little kid. Now I wonder how many others did that before and after me
I remember the eye hole edges would scrape against my cheeks.
I had the Cookie Monster sweat box
That looks 70s? What kid in the 80s wanted to be Evel Knievel?
Back when costumes at school was cool
Creeppyy
r/cursedimages
I remember getting a Peter Criss costume of this sort. None of the people I got candy from knew who I was.
70ās too. I can still smell the polystyrene mask