'Mail-in ballot' and 'hand sanitizer': Halloween costume makers get creative

'Mail-in ballot' and 'hand sanitizer': Halloween costume makers get creative

By Priya Elan

Halloween decorations in Palmyra, New Jersey. Photograph: Michael Perez/AP

2020 has been a tumultuous year full of massive change, and more than the usual amount of disaster and trauma. But it has been a gift to makers of Halloween costumes.

With many people celebrating the holiday from the comfort of Zoom screens at home, it’s an excuse to explore a swathe of new dress-up options meeting the challenge of what feels a uniquely difficult time.

“We wanted Halloween to be an escape from the madness,” said Pilar Quintana-Williams, vice-president of merchandising at online fashion retailer Yandy who, this year, is shifting their focus away from the usual nurses, pirates, ninjas and cowgirls but instead are selling costumes pulled directly from the pandemic: Hand sanitiser, banana bread and mail-in ballot.

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/28/halloween-costume-mail-in-ballot-hand-sanitizer