Friday 7 November 2014

The monopoly of Halloween

Halloween to me right now is commercialism by the candy and costume industry. From what I can see that's mostly common with the average person, is that they buy their Halloween costume and one or two boxes of assorted candy. Most mass produced costumes are mostly sold with cheap material sold at high prices in comparison to the cost of creating them. The same can be said with almost all candy companies with their products as well. The average person will often decide to buy a new costume every year, thus the sales being made will retain a good percentage of customers from the previous year. Halloween costumes are, at it's core, one time use outfits to wear at a single afternoon out of the year. The costume age ranges span to almost to any age, being the simple infant pumpkin kid, to a M rated nurse costume for adults.  On that note, costumes are also begging to have more of a sexual appearance at any age, perhaps due to social media and other similar factors affecting it. There's already some sketchy outfits for kids that are on the line of  obscene profanity, just about mature shows or subjects.  I think there needs to be some sort of public concern about what we're shoving kids into, and even if they're aware of the morale and source of the costume.