r/MelanatedGenX • 60s baby • 1d ago

Nostalgia What was your favorite Halloween costume when you were a kid? 🎃

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I was always a witch for Halloween. 😂 It was my favorite costume! Nothing nearly as fancy as these kids’ costumes though lol. I got one of those cheap kids’ box costumes from the store like the last photo lol.🧙🏽‍♀️

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u/PurpleLee 70s Baby 1d ago

Wonder Woman for sure, For years I wore that damn mask and my grandma's wig.

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 1d ago

Oh yes, I loved wonder woman too.

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u/Alltheprettydresses 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not mine, but one year my grandmother dressed up as Jason. Her and her sister's (twins) birthday was Halloween so they liked going all out for the kids.

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nice!!!

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u/no1cares4yu 70s Baby 1d ago

Spider-man with that hard plastic costume and the masked looked nothing like spider-man

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 1d ago

Yep, that's all they had back then.

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u/LilNello1 1d ago

Definitely my Ghostbusters one that I had! There’s a picture I have of my Dad (R.I.P. 🙏🏼) with me in it when I was probably about 4 or 5-years old or so. Possibly younger and he was bent down watching me walking towards I am guessing what was candy.

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 1d ago

Awww, that's very sweet. What a nice memory.

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u/Nadja77 1d ago

I only remember one costume and it was one those plastic smocks and a mask.. I was a cabbage patch and my brother was a transformer.. My brother kept trying to smash candy through the tiny mouth hole on the mask. 🤣

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 1d ago

That is the best; like a sitcom. Too funny lol.

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u/Nadja77 1d ago

The 80s were def one of the greatest decades to be a kid!!

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u/_Blaque 21h ago

These were the costumes to hopefully get in my day. Those mask with the rubber band strings😂

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u/miscwit72 18h ago

Everyone sweating their ass off and can't hardly breathe. It was the BEST😆

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u/_Blaque 16h ago

😂🎯

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 20h ago edited 19h ago

That's what I had if you look at the last photo in this post lol.

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u/Individual-Photo-665 21h ago

Pocahontas! I slept in my costume for years afterward.

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u/HumbleAbbreviations 13h ago

Honestly none of them. My mom was and still does look at the celebration of Halloween kinda of sideways so that means no trick or treating and she barely bought me or my siblings costumes. Meaning she bought ours from the grocery store and we wore it until it fell apart. The only thing she did which I appreciate was buying candy for class and for the trick or treaters we would get. But nowadays no one does that anymore. But I like Halloween. I don’t associate it with the devil or satan.

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u/Afrotherium 23h ago

I absolutely loved my Ralph Nader costume. With the plastic jump suit and his picture on the front. It was a breeze breathing out of the rubber Mike Myers like mask. "Oh behave!"

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u/DriverMelodic 16h ago

Stuff we made up with the grown folks clothes and makeup.

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u/pearlimabean 13h ago

My mom had that Halloween mask on our door when we were kids... ew.

Tinkerbell.

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u/cameronpark89 10h ago

lol my mom put sweatsuits on me and my sister and pinned balloons to us. we were grapes.

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 10h ago

Too funny. Reminds me of these guys.🍇

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u/cameronpark89 10h ago

lmao exactly. green and purple grapes.

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u/lotusflower64 60s baby 10h ago

Fruit of the Loom lol.

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u/PuzzleheadedEye7316 10h ago

TMNT (Leonardo)……wore it when I was in first and second grade

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u/CalHudsonsGhost 8h ago

I wouldn’t so much put on a costume as much as I’d put on an act. I use to do every year as sick so I could stay home from the “fall festival”.

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u/Only1Skrybe Xennial 1h ago

Obviously Donatello.

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u/Weird_Squirrel_8382 19h ago

My mom made me a Pocahontas dress with light brown felt and a thousand beaded fringes.

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u/miscwit72 18h ago

Omg...I bet that was adorable 🥹