I was lucky that my mom hated these costumes so much that she sewed costumes from patterns for my brother and I.

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In which Christopher Borrelli, the most underrated newspaper feature writer in America, explores a deep Gen X memory/trauma: the cheap 70s era Halloween costumes. www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/03/t...

The sweaty masks, the weird graphics: For generations of kids, Ben Cooper costumes meant Halloween

I was a Stormtrooper from “Star Wars” when I was eight. I had a Ben Cooper mask of a Stormtrooper. But the front of the jumpsuit was not Stormtrooper armor, it was a picture of a Stormtrooper.

LOL my dad was too cheap to buy that crap so I went as whatever could be scrounged up laying around the house; a blue blazer, his Navy hat, and a pipe? Rich yacht guy! A roll of gauze? Mummy!

I had sewn costumes as well for the most part

I had a werewolf mask that I wore every year. But I wore glasses so they would always be fogged up.