Halloween news and archive

The case for sustainable Halloween costumes

A survey by Henfield Storage has uncovered the Halloween habits of Brits, particularly focusing on wastefulness during the spooky season. The findings reveal that 34 percent of Halloween participants opt to reuse old costumes, while nearly 10 percent choose second-hand costumes. Surprisingly, 16 percent still buy new costumes every year,...

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Halloween 2020 searches surge in the UK

Online marketplace, Notonthehighstreet, has revealed an 889 percent increase in searches for Halloween. There are 5,000 small businesses on Notonthehighstreet and the company is hoping this surge in searches brings opportunity for small businesses across the UK, as consumers are entering a new mindset ahead of Christmas. Leanne Osborne,...

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The high cost of Halloween costumes on the environment

Here’s a spooky thought. An estimated 39 million people in the UK dressed up for Halloween last year, spending a total of 510 million pounds on costumes. An estimated 7 million Halloween costumes ended up as waste. A new survey by UK charity Fairyland Trust shows an average of 83 percent of the material in Halloween clothing items is plastic....

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481 million pound Halloween spend boosted by fashion retailers

London - Even though Halloween sales across a wide range of categories are set to slow, the Halloween clothing sector has shown the strongest growth year-on-year as more and more fashion retailers participate in the annual holiday. The challenging retail market has likely spooked more high street fashion retailers into participating in Halloween...

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Retailers to make Halloween costumes safer

The British Retail Consortium and its members have introduced new voluntary codes of practice to further enhance the safety of children’s fancy dress costumes, ahead of Halloween. The UK trade body for the retail industry, said that the accident involving Claudia Winkleman’s daughter in 2014, who was left with severe burns after her Halloween...

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UK shoppers to spend it all on the perfect costume for Halloween 2017

London - The nation is set to embrace its spooky side this autumn as Halloween overtakes Valentine’s Day as the UK’s third biggest retail event. More than 2 million searches for ‘Halloween costume’ were made last year on eBay.co.uk between September and October, and this number is predicted to rise this year. Although the US-borrowed holiday has...

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On Halloween, the US Supreme Court ponders costumes

In a happy coincidence of the US judicial calendar, the Supreme Court on Halloween Monday is set to solemnly take up the subject of costumes and outfits. The eight justices have been asked to define copyright limits in an usual case that poses the question: Can the design of a cheerleader's outfit be protected by rights of authorship? The...

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Halloween retail spending to reach 472 million pounds

Halloween has hit the UK with consumers set to spend 472 million pounds this year, according to research from Verdict Retail. The data reveals that last Halloween, 11.2 percent of consumers carved a pumpkin, 6.8 percent took the kids trick or treating and 5.7 percent decorated the inside of the home. This all attributed to a rise in growth in...

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Celebrating The Saintly Sinful Glamour of Halloween

Fifty years ago Truman Capote threw his legendary black and white ball in the grand ballroom of New York City's Plaza Hotel to which only society’s most incandescent members were invited and those who weren’t fell into despair. Maybe we can’t aspire to such an haut monde affair this weekend but we can channel every bit of the glamour, the...

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More trick than treat for retailers this Halloween

Retailers in the US are prepared for a weak Halloween this year, as a recent survey by the National Retail Federation unveiled that nearly 9 in 10 consumers plan to spend less on candy, costumes and decorations this Halloween season compared with last year. Total spending on the holiday is expected to reach the 6.9 billion dollars nationwide...

Fashion

Halloween a treat for retailers

Halloween is one of those rare occasions to don your favourite fashion faux pas outfit without having the fashion police dictate the laws of style. Punters everywhere from London to Leicester dressed up on Saturday in elaborate costumes even the Fashion and Textile Museum could not compete with. British retailers expected this year's Halloween...