Halloween Costumes 40 Years Ago | Trick or Treat Costumes from 1984 Halloween 1983 + Ben Cooper Toys
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2024
- Recall the Halloween Costumes We Wore 40 Years ago for Halloween 1983 and 1984. What were we going as for Trick or Treating at Halloween 40 Years Ago. A lot has changed in Halloween Costumes, see what was hot for Halloween 1983 and 1984. 40 Years Ago we would Trick or Treat in some amazing Halloween Costumes. Enjoy
This one was a labor of love...and TOUGH. Its tough to find the best era accurate picture (I hate using stock footage), but it was worth it. Thanks for stopping by for my FIRST Halloween Treat this season.
More Halloween. Can't wait. It's my wedding anniversary. This year is 26th.
Ben Cooper costumes need to make a comeback!!
I can see it happening.
Back in the 80's everyone went trick or treating or to Halloween parties as the traditional monsters, cartoon characters some
sort of movie character or something original if you couldn't afford
fancy costumes thanks for the memories of Halloweens Past.
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Halloween may still be BIG, but it is not the same. It is exactly as you said, and a huge community event. I have happy memories of it, too. Thank you
Such great memories! Childhood wasn't complete until Mom took me to Woolworth's to pick out the Ben Cooper costume. They were a non-breathable fire hazard, but I loved pretending to be a princess for a day.
I can imagine. As odd or horrible as they might have been, they were bright shiny and new and the mask was one of our favorite things. Happy memories. Thank you for writing.
I didn't think I would be commenting as by 1984 I had grown out of trick or treating, but in 4th grade (1979-1980) I was a werewolf. I used the stereotypical plastic mask, attached a wig/hair piece to the back to cover my own hair, added to faux hair to the end of the sleeves of the shirt I wore, and added artificial brown nails for claws. At school my teacher then tried to guess who each person was. She thought I was a girl due to the nails.
Well, I am glad you did. As you see I just didn't see many people going through that level of meticulous design for a costume and I always thought people just said...ah, the Wolfman is too hard...and I saw few that were home made. But your costume sounded awesome, INCLUDING the nails, lol.
Ben Cooper costumes will always be Halloween to me, was so cool seeing other kids dressed in them as well walking around trick or treating
I bet. And there were SO MANY
I had the typical plastic costume from K-mart. In ‘84 I want to say I either went as Mr. T, or Megatron. I do remember being E.T in ‘82.
Nice. You were marketing's dream....just like me. All three of those are CLASSICS
Never had the stereotypical plastic costumes. I usually did my mom's made devil or clown costumes or my dad's 70s clothes to make a werewolf costume.
There is a super sentai (power rangers) that reminds me of 80s halloween costumes called Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger. Lol.
Yes, I was shocked to see the Super Sentai. I actually had an over 2 foot tall toy of that very guy. I never wore the Ben Cooper, either, but they were always around me...however, ONCE I got a mask only for a HOBO, but didn't wear it, lol. It was old clothes for me, too. Love that you were a werewolf, as I think that would be so hard back then. Thank you for watching.
I can't remember those years...age 4 was Ep IV Leia in '82. Though the last time I was a SW character at SWCC, it was Chewie (with porgs) and "Master Codebreaker".
Funnily enough, my attempts at Drac have been the newer Universal versions. (Roxula and Cageula) But so many Dark Universe and adjacent. (That Backstreet Boys video, really.)
But I did have the plastic mask ones, Jem, Rose Petal and Holly Hobbie were the ones that stuck out.
Thank you for sharing, you have some great costume memories. Even Holly Hobbie...that is a nice surprise.
In 1984, I was Frankenstein, and my brother was a robot. That was way cool. One of my classmates from kindergarten was Princess Lea from Star Wars Episode 4. She had her hair done like Princess Lea. I was a ghost. That was Halloween 1983. I have got to get those figures. They are so awesome.
I know I had the plastic costumes in the 80s, but for the life of me I can't remember who I was. I know I went as a vampire without the face makeup one year because I already had a quality homemade cape from a school play. The only costume I can vividly remember is my Sisters homemade yellow carebear
Well, at least you still got some memories of Halloween. Your Vampire Costume sounds nice and easy. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I remember the pattern books at Walmart that had Halloween costumes in it and we would pick what we wanted to be and grandma would buy the pattern and make us the costumes several years. Who else remembers the huge sewing pattern books
HOw much fun. Finding that perfect costume and having it hand made. Miss that stuff.
OH SNAP!!!!!
Those PLASTIC Halloween costumes! 😂
*You literally just brought back a memory* (now at age 47) that I totally forgot about. 😊
80's.... what a great time to grow up, Millennials & Gen Z'ers *will never understand or know.*
You are right about that...all of it. And I love your SNAP...like the elastic band on the Mask, lol. THank yiou
Another fantastic blast of nostalgia from the glory days,Victor! Halloween will always be my favorite holiday & this brought back so many memories of happier times.
I am so glad it brought you some joy as I too believe there is nothing that compares to YESTERYEARs Traditions, Celebrations, and HOliday Happenings. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This was a nice trip down the memory banks! I remember dressing up like so many of the icons you mentioned. I truly miss spending weeks trying to figure out what I wanted to be and then working with my mother to make it happen. I truly miss those days!
Me too. And I love how you said it straight out, spending weeks thinking, planning, and executing...with MOM's help. Thank you.
With the Ben Cooper costumes I would always have the Dark Helmet moments. Have the mask on for a minute then pull it up declaring I can't breath in this thing.
LOL. I was imagining it, and LAUGHING. What a great comparison. SO DAMN TRUE. Thanks for watching.
40 years ago. I was 5 then. God, I feel old now.
Don't. This age is awesome! Never forget the past
Hey Victor,
Congrats on another great video!
Fantastic idea of Meco to release those kind of figures.
But I do agree they should have had "actual faces" & removable masks.
Also just checking in on you, how did ya fair w/ the storm, hope you & your neighbors came out unscathed?!
All the best to you,
Milhouse
Hi there, and THANK YOU SO MUCH. Luckily it skirted us RIGHT ON THE EDGE. The worst I got was wind...but for Florida, it was serious wind. I just picked up basic debris, but at least no power outage. Thank you for the view and comment too. I really like the figures, but they need faces. I also love the Thrillhouse/Millhouse...nicely done.
I remember the Creepy Crowler Costumes. They had the big blow up thing you would wear on your head and you would paint your face whatever color the thing you were.
I wanted them as a kid...but sadly no. They were short lived. Thanks for watching.
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The Halloween I can remember as if it were yesterday was the one in '84 when I was 8 years old and I was Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazzard. I didn't like any of the other costumes, and it seemed unusual.
We would have our usual party at school and then have one at church. The church had put out a flyer with rules on it, one of them saying "no witch or monster costumes", but the kids did it anyway, knowing that nothing would be done about it. One girl from my street was a witch, one boy was a wrinkled green monster thing that I didn't know what it was (I knew it wasn't Yoda). I had wanted to wear my sister's boots so it would look more authentic, but my parents wouldn't let me. I wore them when we went trick or treating in the neighborhood, though.
We played games like bobbing for apples, candy corn relay race, tape the eye on the pumpkin (they couldn't trust the kids enough to play pin the tail on the donkey, and this was 1984!), clown bean bag toss, fishing for prizes, best costume contest.
Oh my, this whole things sounds just fun as hell. Seriously, you were all in for that Boss HOgg, what an awesome idea. I bet no one else had that costume. The Sisters Boots thing was great. What fun...we had such fun.
I'm only 40 (only?) but I remember having an awesome hand-me-down ET costume a neighbor had made. (Also, I'm counting your use of the word Pantheon as a name-drop. 🤪)
40 is a wonderful age....and I love that you went as ET once. PROUD. Well, I will have to start using the word more often. Oh, and I am just discovering the crazy AWESOMENESS of your videos. They are eclectic fun of a nostalgic time. I will have to keep perusing.
@@GENXPERIENCE Thank you! My videos are the culmination of a decades-long obsession with public domain footage.
I remember wearing costumes like Voltron but I wanted the lions on the feet and the hands so I used shoe boxes to make those. The first costume I remember wearing was a pop of Smurf costume It was a Ben Cooper just like The Voltron one They came in cake boxes. One year I decide to make my own costume I had one of those Bop bags that was a vampire and it had been busted. I cut the black part off the bottom that had the sand in it cut a couple of eyes in it put it over my head to look like my head wasn't there I used a vampire cape I got it Kmart and wore black sweat clothes and called it my Headless Horseman costume and I had a foam sword I also got from kmart. I think I went as Gizmo one year too which was also a Ben Cooper costume that had those plastic mask with the elastic string in them just like the Papa Smurf one an the Voltron when I had. I also went as He-Man one year it was the plastic mask and the costume had pictures of He-Man Skeletor fighting each other with He-Man and Skeletor if I remember they were using battle axes and shields to fight instead of their sword and Havoc staff. As far as making costumes besides Headless Horseman one I made a mummy costume using toilet paper 1 year. I got into rubber mask as I became a teenager and then I got to old to the trick or treat I started collecting the rubber masks every year. By the time I was an adult I was stuffing them with newspaper and mounting them on my wall during Halloween like they were heads cut off of monsters.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing all this. These are some amazing stories. I love how you wanted to elevate your Voltron costume and put stuffed heads on your wall. NOw, this IS Halloween.
Not all costumes of today would pale in comparison though! I grew up going to conventions, cosplaying and I think a good cosplay tops any regular costume. 😂
Cosplay costumes ARE NOT Halloween Costumes. But there was something about the pride in making our own for NOTHING (not the shit ton of ridiculous costs to Cosplay) with only what you had.
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No, they aren’t in origin for most people. But some do wear them for Halloween as well and some started doing it for Halloween and not just because of cons. Also, cosplay doesn’t have to be expensive either. I started doing it for Halloween when I was a little kid and we always made really good cosplay out of cheap priced materials or items we found at thrift stores. I had a cosplay we did for Halloween when I was 7 in 1999 of Jessie from Toy Story that was made that way, like a cosplay, very detailed… and it was all from pieces of things and items thrifted. Cosplay has not always been store bought perfect like it often is now.
The NECA figures are so cool!!!! Did those release this year?? I collect NECA myself and I LOVE Halloween nostalgia.
The ones I have came out earlier this year, but they have like 3 waves.
We would usually throw costumes together using old clothes that were on hand. My siblings and I used the plastic masks one year, and we hated them! So, it was back to being hobos, pirates, cowboys, or whatever we managed to dream up.
On a totally unrelated note, how do you keep all those action figures in place on the shelves behind you? lol
I was a HOBO so often...but Dracula too, no masks for me. Okay, I wore just a mask (not plastic smock) once as well. NOPE...more fun without it. So, SOME of this figures need action figure putty under their feet, to be sure. Thanks for writing.
That Gizmo costume is nightmare fuel. Shame that costumes seem to have become more and more mundane over the years. Cosplay seems to be where you get great costumes nowadays.
Its horrible, YES! Kids costumes are meh (to quote the kids, lol)...buy you are right, COSPLAY has some exceptional workf. Thanks for the comment.
I grow up in a shitty city in Québec but back in the day, halloween was still super fun, now its dead, and im pretty sure it sucks in the entire province, so that being said, i always wanted to ToT in the states!
Wow, I don't know much about Quebec, but been there twice (for work in the 90), but sounds like you may have had more fun TorT-ing with us, lol. Thanks for writing.
Lol hobo, Gypsies, scarecrows, witches, ghosts, plastic masks in the late 60’s and homemade Jaws costume by mom, onesie pajamas made into a baby costume, clown makeup, all novelties for late 70’s early 80’s.
Way to go you for being a Rubik’s cube. Lol. Bet it was interesting sitting down. Lol Kiss! I remember those plastic masks with one stapled of elastic and sharp edges and eyes thay didn’t match your eye positions so you were virtually blind while walking around in the dark up and down driveways and stairs.
I remember the smell of the candy bin and we did have the fortune of mom buying us plastic
Pumpkin shaped candy bins with plastic straps. We graduated to pillowcases as older children who vowed to hit up the entire neighborhood door to door until we dropped or filled that case. We always dropped. Then came home and spread out the whole stash and sorted likes with likes , putting the candy we didn’t like into plastic baggies “for the poor kids” aka our parents.
We did sport unicef boxes collecting Pennie’s for our little cardboard boxes when we went out and then dad drove us to our grandfather’s house who saved tons of Pennie’s and loaded us up to bring well donated Pennie’s to give back at church for the Unicef kids. We then ate the best candies first and coveted our Halloween stashes and traded with siblings for things we liked better. My older sister was known to be able to stash and save chocolate while my brother and I ate impulsively and were out of the hood chocolates first. She then would pull it out and slowly eat it while we covetted her last chocolate candy bars in the house. Lol My mom was a middle class mom so she gave out fun sized hersheys bars, Milky ways, and some other Mars candy with no nuts bc we were offended by nuts at that age. My father loved the ones with nuts and he was the poor kid who ate them. My mom like us loved chocolate and Reese’s so she would buy some for handing out and stash some for herself. If we weee having a moment she would occasionally appear with a couple of mini Reese’s cups or mini hersheys bar.
We had fun celebrating at school in elementary and all then kids dressed up and lined up and had a little costume parade at the end of the day before we went home. We had that period between school and sunset where we were so jacked up we could not consider dinner or cold temps when I lived in the Midwest before we lived in Florida. We were forced to put a coat over our costumes for trick or treating when “up north” and later relieved of that when we moved. I was the youngest so followed suit from my siblings and learned the ways of the world from school friends. We were so jacked up though between school and going out yhay our mom had to force us to eat dinner which was always a fast simple fare of something like sloppy joes and carrot sticks. Then it was TIME to put on our costumes and get ready for the sun to set so we could start the trek. When little my parents walked us down the street and then we came home. When we were older we went with our bestie and very well laid plans on how far and long and how much candy and how amazing we would make a costume and how very far we would canvas the houses for tons of fun sized chocolate and gross things like those black and white candies I later learned were called peanut butter kisses. We called it “Alexander candy” by the name of our older probably Middle Aged neighbors with no kids and whom gave out this offensive non candy. We were candy snobs at five and eight years old. 😂
It was really epic thohhh and the decor was simple. Mom always hung a cardboard articulated skeleton on the door and sometimes we had a carved pumpkin out there but they always were at risk of being smashed so usually the pumkin would be carved the night before and put out on Halloween evening and still saw smashed pumpkins at times.
We had the fun or the carving so didn’t really mind the risk at that point where the objective was to dress up and go have the magic of being someone else and braving knocking on doors of people we didn’t know. Sometimes it was families opening the door, sometimes a grandma or a person who looked like they were already in bed for the night but had a small stash to give out. We saw some open
The door in costume and my one neighbor always took pics of all
The kids in the hood in their costumes. I wasn’t comfortable with it bc I didn’t know her but probably 40 years later she offered to share those photos with my elderly mom before she was moved from our childhood home to a nursing home. In these days no one would take pics of stranger’s kids and even at that she I knew it was a little bit inappropriate. She was very much a safe lady luckily but we went to all the houses with a porch light on and felt especially welcomed at the ones whom had a little decor like a pumpkin or a front door car board skeleton,
Pumpkin or if they were fancy a sheet ghost and some spider webs with big spiders.
Ahh the burbs.
Such great memories. Thank you for sharing as so much of your stories are familiar to me. I love thinking back and remembering it was my parents who instilled all of these traditions in me, they are the one who made it important. We need to pass it down, for sure. Thanks again.
@@GENXPERIENCE lol sorry it was so long but it was a happy and funny part of my childhood.
I actually know where to find some people who would custom make a whole neighborhood in detail for displaying these. Not cheap though… 😂
I have a great friend on TH-cam, Thomas Goes Nostalgic, who does dioramas...I should get him to do one.
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Yes!!! I’d love to see that!
Those cheap, thin elastic bands on the masks were horrible! When you first put them on they were so tight that the eye holes would dig into your sockets until - snap! I don't remember when but we eventually learned to bring rubber bands and a stapler to replace them with as we went.
lol, I love that you would have a stapler and a replacement....but you are right...SNAP!
Well let's see....I did have the she ra costume you showed, but in poorer years I was a hobo, a ghost mom tried her damndest to look like Casper, but ended up more like a kkk member, and a witch or two.
mummy? not mbutmy mummy er mom ace bandages and a bikini. wasn't a werewolf,iwas a lionbutamy aunt sewes it out of fake fur cutshort forthe body and left longforthe hod ande used makeup to imply furry facei was like 9, butit was reurposed by a cosin as a werewolf 3 years later soitstill counts LOL
I like the repurposing of a lion to werewolf. Very creative AND efficient.