I have a problem with fall holiday promotion starting in August, but like her, I conform as well. I start looking for my son’s Halloween costumes just as soon as I feel a cool August night hit. Or when those damn catalogs start to arrive and I worry that I’ll be left roaming the aisles of Party City on Oct 29 with everyone and their mother, father, grand-uncle and step-sister sifting through disheveled piles of green wigs.
Luckily, though, when you start shopping for Halloween in August, you have your choices of costumes. They may be the experts in bad advertising (as Marketing Mommy says, badvertising), but I think I’ve got the market cornered on the worst kiddie Halloween costumes on record. If you’ve seen worse, please let me know.
The Man Eating Shark: “Let’s go to the ocean for winter vacation” has new meaning after you’ve scared the bejesus out of your kid with this costume. (photo courtesy of Sensational Beginnings)
Native American Boy: Because nothing says PC Halloween 2009 like dressing your kid up like an ‘Injun. (photo courtesy of Chasing Fireflies.)
Marie Antoinette: If she can hold her poor little head up from this wig, she can eat her cake. (photo courtesy of Chasing Fireflies.)
Dementor: I don’t even know what this is and I’m not sure I want to. (photo courtesy of Chasing Fireflies)
Baby Yoda: because every kid should wear a costume…
… that matches his dog’s. (photo courtesy of Buy Costumes)
And, my personal favorite:
Baby Elvis: ‘Aint nuthin’ like a Hound Baby. (photo courtesy of Amazon)
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Being from Tennessee, I kind of like the Elvis costume but what baby would actually consent to wearing all that!!!
Agree with you on all except Yoda and Elvis. I think the toddler Yoda costumes are hilarious, b/c they are just the right height to look like Yoda! (Never mind that most toddlers have never seen or heard of Star Wars.) : )
The Elvis is just too funny, and that’s the beauty of it, Jamie – the baby doesn’t get a vote in the matter!
We got the Chasing Fireflies catalog and Ellie asked me if she could get the Marie Antoinette costume. Yes, I am serious. Doesn’t that just look like a neck injury waiting to happen? Plus, it is like $1000 dollars — way out of my Halloween costume budget.
The girls preschool sent a note home asking for costumes without any blood or weapons! Huh? Luckily, they wear the previous year’s dance recital costumes for Halloween. I get double use out of the #@$ expensive costumes they wear on stage for five minutes.
I have to admit I like the man eating shark costume. I reminds me of what I was totally convinced what would happen if I went swimming in the ocean after seeing the movie Jaws the first time as a kid.
Also I have a very twisted sense of humor.
I forgot to add. I could totally make that Marie Antoinette costume for much less than $1000, including the hoop skirt. I think the little girl appeal is the hoop skirt and the big hair. I”m sure if you got an adult size woman’s colonel wig, you’d get the same effect without the weight.