{"id":4476,"date":"2012-10-30T05:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T05:01:35","slug":"halloween-costumes-mirror-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/30\/halloween-costumes-mirror-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween costumes mirror pop culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thrill of finding the perfect Halloween costume is exhilarating for some and exhausting for others. If you\u2019re nervous about online shopping, too impatient for a thrift store, and depressed by Walmart\u2019s buzzing fluorescent lights and prepackaged costume clones, it\u2019s time to consider renting.<\/p>\n

The quality of a rental costume is much better and you get more fabulousness for your buck. Also, you won\u2019t have to be the Black Swan two years in a row.<\/p>\n

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A sampling of some of the spooks to be found at Victoria Costumes (photos by Kate Masters\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cWho wears a costume twice?\u201d asks Charlotte Rennison, owner of Victoria Costumes in Brentwood Bay. \u201cCostumes are all about becoming someone different and doing different things, so why would you wear the same costume again?\u201d<\/p>\n

With new movies, television shows, books, and YouTube videos clogging up\u00a0 mainstream media, there\u2019s certainly no need to ever repeat a costume. Popular culture has always had an influence with Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s everything and I have to keep up to date with stuff, and I don\u2019t have cable,\u201d says Rennison. \u201cPeople call and I have no idea what they\u2019re talking about sometimes. I remember last year or the year before people kept calling and asking for Snooki costumes. I\u2019m like, \u2018Who is this Snooki person?\u2019 And, yeah… unfortunately I had to watch a bit of that show [Jersey Shore<\/em>].\u201d<\/p>\n

With the last season of Jersey Shore <\/em>airing this fall, the Snooki impersonators will hopefully be few and far between. That character is making room for classic pop-culture characters like Princess Leia, Superwoman, Catwoman, and the Black Widow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen want to look and feel feminine,\u201d says Rennison. \u201cWomen are more inclined to go sexier than, say, they were just going to a neighbours\u2019 1920s party on the weekend. People think they can get away with a little more skin when it comes to Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n

For men, Charlotte fields the most inquiries about the fearless leader of the Death Star and, of course, superheroes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlways, without fail, Star Wars<\/em> and superheroes are the most popular,\u201d says Rennison. \u201cDarth Vader is always number one. We have the standard Darth Vader costume and then movie quality, and that\u2019s what people want.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another growing trend for both men and women is steampunk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteampunk is all about original pieces,\u201d says Rennison. \u201cVictorian-era pieces are mixed in with futuristic ideas. Top hats and goggles for men, and for women it\u2019s all about the corsets and bustle dresses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although sticking with the trendy costumes is safe, sometimes mixing it up is just what the Halloween fairy godmother called for, and what Rennison hopes for.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople just need to get a little more creative,\u201d says Rennison. \u201cI thought a great group Halloween costume would be a turkey with a bunch of pioneers. I\u2019ve never seen that done before. How fun would that be?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The thrill of finding the perfect Halloween costume is exhilarating for some and exhausting for others. If you\u2019re nervous about online shopping, too impatient for a thrift store, and depressed by Walmart\u2019s buzzing fluorescent lights and prepackaged costume clones, it\u2019s time to consider renting. The quality of a rental costume is much better and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-issue","category-october-17-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}