2009 Halloween Costume Preview

I realized that last March, I did a 2008 costume preview, so I figured that March seems like a perfect month to start planning your amazingly spooOoOoOoOoktacular costume for this year!

Extreme Halloween blog, whom I referred to last year for the latest up-and-coming for 2008, already has their top picks for 2009. In fact, they posted the beginnings of them in January. I love them. This year, they even have a poll where you pick the most anticipated costume of the year. Brilliant! It seems that they are predicting that the groOoOoOoovy spoOoOoky retro costumes, as usual, will be popular. I'm personally tired of them, but hey, that's just me. As for movies, Extreme Halloween blog predicts:

Transformers
Harry Potter
G.I. Joe
Hannah Montana
Watchmen
X-Men
Tinkerbell
Star Trek
Star Wars
Wizards of Waverly Place

As top movie costume ideas for this year.

Since I'm never satisfied with one opinion, I went to my pals at Halloween.com to see their ideas.
For men, they suggest the "usuals" (nerds, super heroes, Ryu from Street Fighter)...but then they threw in an outlier...


Golden Buddha. This thing is the creepiest costume I've ever seen in my life.

As for women, Halloween.com suggests the usual..."vixen pirate" and "50's girl" and "flapper"...boOoOOooOoring.

Halloween.com also has a category called "Top Colleges Halloween Costumes"...and my oh my...hide your college students, because these costumes are HORRENDOUS.


This one is called "Longuini and Meatballs". Ugh.




This one is..."The Shocker". Is this what college means to Halloween.com?



And this one, the least awful...the only one I would condone...is the Taco. If they didn't have this one, I'd have condemned the entire site.




As usual, buycostumes.com has the standards...



Goosh pants (whatever goosh is...it's gross...I searched "what are goosh pants?" on google, and just got a bunch of links to buy the costume. Nobody has a set definition, I guess.):




P.S. I love the way they have the guy posing..like he's proud, and yet, he's still kind of embarassed by the "goosh".


The "Fart-o-meter" (If you did this one home made, you'd be my hero):






In all honesty...why would you dress like this though? My main question would be "does the dial move?" Because if not...then it's totally not worth it.


Then, there's "The Birds" (from Alfred Hitchcock):






The Birds one is actually decent. Just make sure you're at a party where people know what that is. Otherwise they may think you're Jessica Simpson being attacked for having cookie crumbs on you...or something like that.





And of course, because Napoleon Dynamite will never die...they have this one...called "Instant Rapper":






here's the riveting description:
Girls only want boyfriends who have great COSTUME skills!
Made exclusively for BuyCostumes.com this costume kit guarantees you'll get your lady! Includes du-rag, moustache, and eagle necklace. You add a jacket (not included) and the new attitude! Get two of your friends to be Pedro (18695) and Napoleon (18849).
This is an officially licensed Napoleon Dynamite™ product


Really? Well, I guess that's kind of true. I only date hunks with real COSTUME skillz.





Moving along, I then travelled over to my pals, Halloween31.com to check out the new masks, wigs, and whatnot for this year's horrorfest. My personal favorite is "Blurp Charlie Skull Mask":

Also, I don't know if you may have noticed, but there were an awful lot of clown props here. Could they have caught wind to my theme last year and be hopping aboard the Murder Circus? Unfortunately, if you're into getting something from Halloween31, you have to wait for these awesome masks until around August, but by the looks of them, they are worth the wait!





After there, I stopped by the Halloween Adventure blog. Halloween Adventure is a chain of stores that come around seasonally. We generally tend to have about 3-5 in the radius that I shop in during the season. What's great about their blog is that they tag the costume categories, so it's much easier to look around.





Well, I think I've done some decent research. As always, hippies, trailer trash, 50's guys and dolls, and movie characters are always top of the pops.





I've been doing some deep thinking about my costume for this year, and I must admit, it's been my toughest year to date, I am not having an easy time picking my spoOoOoOoktacular costume for this year's Monster Bash. But I will say, the overall decor has been chosen and sketches and minor purchases are being made now. I know I say this every year, but Monster Bash 2009 will be the best one yet! So start getting those costumes together, guys and ghouls!