Awful '70s Halloween Costumes: One Incredible Old Ad Reveals the Horror

• It's not as if they didn't have the technology to make better costumes back then. Kids knew they were bad even at the time. The problem was that the costume industry was dominated by companies like Ben Cooper, who thought a good costume meant a mask and a shirt depicting who you were supposed to be. (You sure couldn't tell from the costume!)

• I can't blame stuff that exists in 70's. They are from the past. Basically, they will definitely look awful compare to the costumes of today.

• Don't know how you could have gone through that entire list without mentioning that toxic colored glitter that was pasted all over those not-really-fireproof "store-bought" costumes. The vile glitter got all over everything, including the rancid candy apples the old lady on the corner inevitably palmed off on you. Praise my mom, who refused to allow us to wear those awful things. We either made our own costumes (with her enthusiastic help), or we went in mufti.

• As someone who recalls firsthand a lot of '60s trick-or-treating, I can't dispute the cheapness of the store-bought costumes, not that it mattered a great deal to my seven year-old aesthetic sensibility. You know one reason why Halloween was much better then than it is now, though? You could pretty much go to absolutely any stranger's house anywhere and get non-poisoned, razor blade-free candy without having to worry about anything worse than getting no answer when you knocked on the door.

• The "name you can't read" is clearly Bozo the Clown. Typical lefty HP bias!

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