Halloween: Dress Up for GrownUps

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Halloween Dress Up for Grown-Ups

• Carrie Zellen
• Central Michigan University

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Halloween is Not Just for Kids!

• Americans expected to spend 3.12 billion dollars
  on Halloween.
• Now making it the 6th largest spending holiday.
• Last year Americans spent 2.96 billon.
• The growth is due to 70 percent of 18 to 34 year
  olds celebrating the holiday.

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Ideas for Costumes

• Traditional
• Witch, Monster, Vampire, and Princess
• Hollywood
• Spiderman, Shrek, Characters from Lord of the
  rings or Pirates of the Caribbean, and Catwoman
• Adult Costumes
• Pimps and Hookers, or Sexy Nurses, Cops,
  Construction Workers, and Firefighters

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Costumes Pre-tell the Election?

• President Bush Masks are out selling Kerry Masks
  by a slim margin.
• Kerry masks were held up early on, so now it may
  be even closer.
• Dont believe masks can predict our countries
  future?
• Buycostumes.com has been selling discounted Al
  Gore masks for the past three years.

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Newest Fad in Halloween Fashion

• Wild Eye costume contact lenses.
• You get them from your eye doctor.
• They can change regular brown, blue, green eyes
  into crazy red flaming eyes.
• They can make it seem you have Xs on your pupils
  or eight balls.

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Some Couples Costumes

• Plug and Socket
• Nut and Bolt
• Ball and Chain
• Lock and Key
• All created by Costumer Rasta Impasta

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Some out there Costumes

• Britney Bride-zilla
• Nuclear Protective Suit
• Sticky Movie Theater Floor
• Inflatable Sumo Wrestler