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Behold, the Kusan Costume Catalog 1973 edition! Kusan, Inc. out of Nashville Tennessee, thought itself as America’s leading creators of masquerade costumes. This catalog showcases masks, wigs, boxed and non-boxed costumes, and accessories. Kusan licensed many of these properties. Kusan’s 1300 Tiny Tot Range was a gypsy, a devil, a …
Boxed Halloween costumes were a staple of the 1940s through the 1980s. You have everything you need to dress your 15 and under children in nearly any costume they might want. Collegeville, Ben Cooper, and Bland Charnas licensed characters for costumes and by doing so, made available the hottest disguises …
This Toys R Us ad was published in October 1977, and comes from a newspaper in Upland, California. It advertises a rare Kusan Geoffrey Halloween Costume. The Kusan costumes are shown underneath costumes by the well known costume company Ben Cooper. Plaid Stallions has a lovely full color 1974 Kusan …
Here’s a super cool retro guide to making your own costumes and carving jack o lantern’s the Popular Mechanics Halloween way. First off, a witch costume with a surprise meowing, grimacing black cat will be sure to get a laugh! I adore the style of the little witches hat. Tin …
Since we missed halfway to Halloween a couple of days ago, I put together some 1960’s Collegeville Boxed Costume Ads for you boxed costume junkies. The first ad is from Halloween 1964, from the Chicago Heights Shoppers world. Wrapped caramels, Mars Bars, Planter’s peanuts and chocolate-covered raisins and safety pops …
Sally’s Minneapolis Halloween 1957 catalog cover shows #135 deluxe masquerade costumes including Flash, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Hawkman, and Green Lantern. #P2599 Transparent Plastic Masks. #M900 Luminous Might Masks. #M304 Plastic Space Masks. Vinyl plastic Halloween Masks come in animals, people, and assorted scary characters. Gauze masks and hooded masks! …
I don’t know exactly what year this costume is from, but it’s lovely! It’s a Walt Disney licensed, Ben Cooper Inc. Masquerade Costumes costume, still in the box! Style: Minnie Mouse. Size: B (8-10). No. 217. There’s cloth on the Minnie Mouse mask! Style, size, and number of Ben Cooper …
Here’s a cool boxed costume (missing the mask, sadly) by a company I’ve never heard of before, Bland Charnas. This clown is called Bland Charnas 3900 Clown. It is a typical size for a boxed costume. Bland Charnas’ logo is a little witch on a broomstick. Her body makes up …
The 1968 Ben Cooper Costumes catalog is called “Spook Town”. The Ben Cooper company manufactured Halloween costumes from the 1930’s through the 1980’s in the USA. For a time, Ben Cooper was one of the top 3 costume makers in the country, alongside Collegeville and the H. Halpern Company. The …
This is a very late follow up to a blog I wrote a few years ago, which shined the spotlight on ridiculous Halloween costumes. For a reason unknown to myself and really, my circle of rational-minded friends, picking out a Halloween costume for young women has become an occasion where …
Nightly I get on the Internet and look for neat Halloween costumes, preferably on the cheap. Every so often, though, I come across some real gems. Costumes that don’t belong in public. Costumes that will make you wish it was Thanksgiving instead of Halloween. So I give you a few …
