WATCH: Plastic Masks and the Hot Halloween Costumes in the Late 80s
In the late 80s, He-Man was the master of Halloween, as well as the universe.
Hot Halloween costumes of the day also included Madonna, Chuck Norris, and Minnie Mouse. At least that's what we learn in this news report from WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Hot Halloween Costumes of 1986
Watching this I got a negative shot of nostalgia about those dumb plastic masks. Just a generic face-looking thing, painted to look like Rambo or He-Man. But really just looking like some man.
I'd have loved to have found Bill Shatner's face at the store and painted it.
Plus they were kept in place by one, flimsy, piece of elastic. And that elastic was good for only about one use.
By the end of every elementary school Halloween party, about half the class was stapling and taping their masks back together.
If you were lucky enough to have your elastic to survive until Halloween night, then you got the pleasure of the thin elastic digging into your ears all evening.
Halloween in the 1980s
Something else I remember that was common at this time, but they don't talk about it in the video, was the number of hobos and hippies that would appear each Halloween. I know I was a hobo at least twice.
Maybe it was because it was the easiest costume to put together. Just a ripped shirt, dirty pants, and a stick with a towel tied on the end.
Being a hippy just meant wearing a shirt with a flower on it, giving the peace sign, and not bathing for a week. That was even easier.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ben Kuhns is just some guy on the internet. He is a wannabe writer, and his wife thinks he's funny. He writes for Results-Townsquare Media in Sioux Falls South Dakota.
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