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Halloween is the time of yearthat people get to be the exactopposite of what they are in re-ality. For the past decade, theyhave been doing just that, prov-ing from little children to adultseveryone can dress up in acrazy costumes. In the year 2000, Halloweencostumes were quite intothe future. The mostpopular were StarWars. For Adults itwas either Jar-JarBinks or a DiscoDiva. Teens andkids dressed as aJedi or PrincessLeia. Even littlebabies got to bepart of the fun bybeing the old andwise Yoda. Thosethat did not enjoythe years of theJedi got somethinga bit worse. Kids andteens dressed as Santa Clauseand Vending Machines. Adultswere Raggedy Anne and pop-corn boxes. Babies got the rawend of the stick, with their at-tire being car air fresheners.After Halloween in the first year

of the new millennium criticsstated that these were some ofthe worst in stock. Twenty-oh-one took the ef-fect of originality. Girls and theirBFFLs dressed as the SpiceGirls while boys dressed asFrankenstein and the Wolfman.Parents dressed their babies asPokémon balls and other youngchildren as cheerleaders. The

worst costumes were thoseof aquariums, dice, and onecase of a gumball. Uniqueisn’t it? In 2002 we began tolose our originality andbegan to use costumesfrom characters wewould find on thetelevision. Kids in-sisted on dressing upas your friendlyn e i g h b o r h o o dSpiderman or thePower Puff Girls.Teenagers took favor tothe wonderful Scooby

Doo gang, and dressed up asDaphne or Shaggy. Even in the TV age, therewere terrible costumes. Whenyou send you kid out wearing“the morning look” or a 3-month-old child wearing a Mr.Magee outfit, you can only won-

der what is going through theseparents heads as they send theirkids out. Flash forward to 2005 andthere was a quite different per-spective on outfits. The takewas more historical, with mostcostumes being Robin Hood andMaid Marian. Teens went all-out hippie by wearingpeace signs andradical colors.2006 then beganto bug out—lit-erally; babieswere dressed asladybugs andb u t t e r f l i e s .Some studentsmay remember2007 when kidsdressed up asJack Sparrow,Harry Potter,and HannahM o n t a n a ,which wereconsidered “cool” in 2007. Randomness became the cen-tral theme of 2008, with someof the best costumes being thePillsbury Dough boy, MinnieMouse, Transformers, and yourTrophy Wife. The worst of therandom is between Hitler,Sharpay from High School Mu-

sical and the Burger King StormTrooper. Last year, almost every girl wasdressed as a fairy—more orless, a Disney fairy—or thelate Michael Jackson,whose attire was cer-tainly popular. On theoutrageous side in ’09,the Rubik’s Cube, anda lobster in a pot. Mostly, the one ques-tion that people areasking now is whatwill be the best andworst of 2010? Saleshave shown that thenumber one best sellers are IronMan and Hannah Montana. Ba-bies will be mostly seen as peas-in-a-pod or butterflies. Adultswill most likely be seen as LadyGaga, the Situation from JerseyShore, or Jake Sulley fromJames Cameron’s acclaimedAvatar. As for teens, they will be

dressed as Alice in Wonderland orthe Wolf Man. Halloween is the time of yearthat we get to be everything thatwe are not. Years have shown thatwe do exactly that. But the realquestion going through the mindsof millions is: what will you be thisyear?

Costumes through the decades prove to be both good and badHalloween attire in the first ten years of the new millenium filled with sugar, spice

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Top HalloweenCostumes 2010

1. The MadHatter

2. Vampire

3. Avatar

4. Iron Man

5. Harry Potter

6. JackSkellington

7. Buzz Lightyear

8. Lady Gaga

9. Jersey Shore

10. Alice in Won-derland

Source: Yahoo News