A first-Year Halloween party & relay challenge, a carving carnival and the SHU Halloween Dance are among several other Halloween events being held at Seton Hill University. It seems to be the time to check out the Halloween costume trends for 2014!
“Every year everything gets shorter and girls go crazy for Halloween, but that is due to the industry of Halloween costumes. It’s like free-for-all night, you can wear whatever you want,” said Allie Rackliff, a senior business and art major and a coordinator for the Halloween Dance.
Yahoo’s Search of Top Halloween Costume 2014
- Ninja Turtle Costume
- Pirate Costume
- Star Wars Costumes
- Poison Ivy Costumes
- Superhero Costumes
- Cat woman Costume
- Monster High Costume
- Olaf Costumes
- Elsa Frozen Costumes
- Tinkerbell Costume
- Pocahontas Costume
- Minnie Mouse Costume
- Alice in Wonderland Costumes
- Little Red Riding Hood Costumes
- Great Gatsby Costumes
- Minion Costume
- Maleficent Costume
- Wonder Woman Costume
- Frozen Anna Costume
- Katniss Everdeen Costume
Of course, the traditional Halloween costumes such as dressing as a witch, mummy or vampire will be still very popular. However, according to Yahoo’s search, people seem to be more interested in costumes inspired by pop culture topics such as Disney or superhero movie characters.
Additionally, every year people find ideas from major topics in the media.
“Usually some people have political jokes for their costumes, and any big scandals that happened,” said Rackliff.
A new trend is best friends and couples costumes. People like to match their costume with their friends’ or significant other’s this year. Some examples are Ninja turtles or Elsa and Anna from Disney’s “Frozen” movie. These costumes incorporate themes of friendship found in children’s movies.
If you search “best friend costume” on Pinterest, you can see variety of other people’s Halloween costume ideas.
Face painting is a unique way to bring additional excitement to your costume and you can also match with your friend through face painting. Skull face painting is the most popular style among men and women.
“I’m hopefully going as Atlas. My friends are going be toga people, and I decided to be a Greek God,” said Rackliff.
