Trending Halloween Costumes: Past & Present By: Lucy Erika Ann Magat Staff Writer
Within the past decade, Halloween has increasingly become representative of pop culture, especially with the ever-growing market size for the movie industry. Traditional Halloween costumes, like ghosts and vampires, are now falling behind as the most worn costumes. They are being replaced with main characters from famous movies and shows.
For 2020, as reported by www.fox8.com, witches and superheroes were tied at the most searched costumes on Google, but the second spot still goes to Harley Quinn, which may be due to her movie, “Birds of Prey,” being released in January 2020.
With this year being a little less severe than last year, in terms of COVID-19 restrictions, there is an expected increase in costume Let’s take a look at what costumes were and decoration sales during this Halloween trending over the past five years and what season. Spider-Man is still the most searched is expected for this year. costume for children, while witch costumes are popular among adults. A University of In August 2016, just two months before St. Francis student, Adesuwa Imafidon, is Halloween season, “Suicide Squad” was seeing this trend with children’s costumes. released to the public and its infamous She says, “My younger cousin is ecstatic couple, Harley Quinn and the Joker, about the upcoming Spider-Man film, so he became the most searched costume idea for has planned it to be his costume already.” She that year (and would continue to be popular also notes that she knows at least four other for the next few years). children planning to dress up as Spider-Man for this upcoming Halloween. In 2017, the horror film, “It,” was released just a month before Halloween. As reported Search engines also show that the most by www.thrillist.com, the main antagonist, popular costume this year for pets is Pennywise, was one of the most worn expected to be pumpkins. It is also worth costumes of the year, along with another mentioning that Netflix has made an impact character from the movie, Georgie. They on Halloween, as we see more people dressing were closely followed by “Wonder Woman,” up as characters from “Stranger Things” and whose movie was released in June of 2017. “Money Heist”. With “Squid Game” being on track as the most watched show in Netflix In late 2017, “Fortnite” rose to popularity history, it won’t be a surprise to see their as the game reached 30 million worldwide iconic red guard suits and green track players. This was evident in 2018 when suits worn during Halloween. “Fortnite” costumes were on trend with the younger audience. According to www.allure.com, in 2019, the top spot for most worn costume was taken back by superheroes as the “Captain Marvel” movie released in March of that year. SpiderMan also shared the top spot with Captain Marvel, as Peter Parker came back on screen in July 2019 with the film “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”
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