The Most Popular Costumes - with less than 2 months to Halloween

54 days and counting as of September 6, 2017

Halloween comes just once a year, but thankfully the Holiday Police didn't get it moved to Mondays.  It always falls on the 31st. of October.  This year it's a Tuesday.  

For many years the Princess Costume has been the top seller for young ladies, but 2017 belongs to Super Heroes.  It is expected that the best sellers will be Supergirl, Batman, and Superman!   These costumes are going to account for much of America's 3 billion dollar Halloween spending spree.

It's interesting to note that the popularity of Supergirl, Batman, and Superman simply reflects the nature of time - it is a pendulum. Back in the 1950s the most sought after costumes were pretty much the same as now!  Every post war kid wanted to be a superhero.

It seems as though only one popular costume from the 20th century failed to make it to the new millennium - the Cowboy Suit.

 In 1950 every buckaroo from Boston to Miami was sporting a pair of plastic six guns, a five or six gallon hat, and a tin badge.  As it says in the Bible, 'this too shall pass'.  It's very likely that in the near future Hollywood will launch a Western Movie that will spawn a whole new batch of rhinestone cowboys.