Curious to know what your fellow Cavelero students are dressing up as this Halloween? Through an online poll, a variety of different costumes have been collected and listed in this article. Take a look!
You may have received and filled out a Google form earlier this month that asked you some basic questions about Halloween costumes. I asked our classmates if they were dressing up this year, what their costume is, and if they would be willing to send a picture. I was pleasantly surprised by how many responses I received, it made creating this article much easier, so thank you! Due to the variety of responses, I had to combine a lot of different categories together to include all of them. I narrowed it down to two main categories, fictional and realistic costumes. The realistic costumes are anything from animals, to people, to food, to clowns, whereas the fictional characters are really anything based on a character portrayed in a form of media. There was a very high percentage of fictional costumes compared to realistic, as shown in the graph.
There were some creative costumes! Some of the top ones being a Halloweenie, a plague doctor, and a cow to name just a few! There were a handful of babies, inflatable t-rexes, and hot dogs throughout the responses. There seems to be a large amount of costumes influenced by television productions, books, video games, and other entertainment formats. Which is no surprise based on how heavily technology impacts our world today. However, what was surprising was the sheer amount of students actually dressing up. With schools saying more and more often that costumes are not allowed and the number of kids who go trick or treating at this age starting to dwindle, the need to come up with a costume is less adamant. Unless you have a reason to get dressed up, why waste the effort, right? Although this is the logical conclusion, it’s definitely a big part of childhood that’ll be missed. That’s why the number of people who said they had a costume was dumbfounding- in a good way! There is no need to rush our adolescent years along, they’ll fly by fast enough. You can read more about the trick or treating age debate in Liah Campbell’s article.
What I’m trying to get at is that we should be able to enjoy dressing up for as long as we can, because look at how creative and inventive it lets us be! When we get to dress up in fun and goofy costumes we get to express ourselves in a way we usually aren’t given the opportunity to. So, it doesn’t matter if your costume is scary, unique, funny, or wacky, as long as you enjoy dressing up as it, what else matters?
