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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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