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Zombie, vampire, princess costumes top consumers' halloween favorites

12.10.11

This Halloween, a trendy livery is coming back from the dead. According to the National Retail Amalgamation’s 2011 Top Costumes survey, more than 2.6 million men, women and children diagram to dress as zombies this Halloween. 

Due to the popularity of the characters in up to date books, television shows and video games, zombie costumes jumped from No. 22 last year to No. 9 on children’s top garb list and from No. 7 to 4 on the adult list.

Americans are expected to allot $2.5 billion on Halloween costumes this year, according to an NRF inspection, forking over $1 billion on children’s costumes, $1.2 billion on matured costumes, and $310 million on pet costumes. The middling person will spend $72.31 on Halloween sweets, costumes and décor, bringing total spending to $6.86 billion — the most in the scan’s nine-year history.

“Halloween isn’t just for kids anymore, as adults are principled as likely to get in on the fun with clever, unique costumes,” said NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay. 

Source: Napa Valley Register

The Problem With Princesses

11.10.11

As the mom of two girls, I found it a absolutely important read. Orenstein’s quest to conscious of the pink princess-encrusted trend raging among infinitesimal girls today sent her delving into all sorts of realms: from American Doll stores, to Disney administration meetings, and back to her own home, which she shares with her husband and undersized daughter, Daisy.

Open to the book’s preferred cover and you’ll find this summary: “Somewhere between the exhilarating succeed of girl power in the 1990s and today, the dogging of physical perfection has been recast as a source —the inception—of female empowerment.”

The feeling this truth inspires in many moms like me, who were raised on the effective second wave of feminism, is one of desperation and helplessness. This is conspicuously true when Orenstein punctuates her humorous and special commentary with research and statistics like the one from the American Psychogenic Association that the “girlie-girl sophistication’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can prolong girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most refer parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted confederation image, risky sexual behavior.”

Source: Patch.com