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Halloween in WeHo
Chi Chi LaRue’s store in West Hollywood, California, says that since they are on the same
street as the West Halloween Carnaval, the store is specializing in elaborate masks this year,
which people buy at the last minute. Coco, the store’s assistant manager, told us that the store
also sells a lot of harnesses, which are year-round best sellers. So if you see a guy in a Viennese
carnival mask with a harness, or a woman in a Mardi Gras mask, harness and attached dildo,
you’ll know where they got “the look.”
To learn more about LaRue’s store, visit ChiChiLaRues.com. For details on the parade, go to
VisitWestHollywood.com/halloween-carnaval.
Those who are looking to hit Hollywood Boulevard instead of the WeHo extravaganza can
check out another local tradition: All Play Media’s long-running Heaven & Hell costume party,
which will be held Friday, October 27, 2017 at 9 p.m. in three different clubs—Project, Study
and Beatle House—at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. For tickets and tables, visit
Halloween-LA.com or email info@worldwidepresents.com.
Halloween in NOLA
Down at the Hustler Hollywood store in New Orleans, Louisiana, “Halloween is every
night of the year” says assistant store manager Jeremy Kates. According to Kates, this
year’s Halloween trend is the “DIY/Do It Yourself costume.” The store saw the trend
happening last year and realized that “people want to customize their costumes so they
don’t go out and see someone else with the same costume.” So the store offers props,
wigs and accessories for people to make costumes their own.
This year’s best-selling costumes are Harley Quinn and other Suicide Squad characters,
Batman, Catwoman (a perennial favorite) and “anything with wings.” Oh, and “nuns are
big this year,” Kates also told us. (For inspiration, check out Axel Braun’s Wicked Comix
parodies Suicide Squad XXX and Justice League XXX, as well as Confessions of a Sinful Nun, a
“nunsploitation” movie from Mile High studio Sweet Sinner starring Charlotte Stokely
and Nina Hartley as Mother Superior.)
NYC Is Going to the Dogs Each year, NYC holds the most fabulous, massive, pulsating Halloween
parade in the country, with marching bands, STOMP and giant floats.
Ricky’s NYC told us that people prepare for the Greenwich Village
Halloween Parade for months beforehand. They specialize in theatrical
make-up along with their costumes and each year do pop-up stores in
Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens.
But this Halloween, costumes have gone to the dogs. Another parade
has created a new trend: people dressing up in matching sexy owner/
doggie style. The annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade on
October 22 in NYC is the “largest dog costume parade in the world.”
Where else can you see sexy bulldogs doing runway?
The “Marilyn Monroe” costume complete with canine cleavage was sold
out months in advance from HalloweenCostumes.com. The “Naughty
Maid” outfit from SpoiledRottenDoggies.com comes with a matching
French Maid outfit for your “naughty” doggie. Since costumes stores tell
us that most of their ready-made doggie costumes are already sold out,
you can always make your own. (Or get some doggie/people costumes
going for XXXmas.)
“People are coming in asking for sexy cop outfits and sexy schoolgirl
outfits, because those are easy to make do-it-yourself versions for your
dog,” a salesperson at a Ricky’s store in Manhattan told us. “And last year
Ricky’s did a temporary “pup up store,” which was so successful I think
they should do it again,” she noted.
Dressing up your dog will probably get more attention then you will.
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