The Most Popular Halloween Costume the Year You Were Born

The Most Popular Halloween Costume the Year You Were Born
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You can usually tell what’s popular by what people wear for Halloween.  “Reader’s Digest” put together a list of the most popular Halloween costume for every year from 1950 to 2005.

 

 

Here are the highlights:

 

 

1953:  Mickey Mouse

 

1954:  Batman

 

1957:  Frankenstein’s Monster

 

1965:  Sonny Bono and Cher

 

1967:  Morticia Addams from “The Addams Family”

 

1969:  Astronaut

 

1971:  Willy Wonka

 

1975:  Dr. Frank-N-Furter from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

 

1978:  Michael Myers from “Halloween”

 

1981:  “Indiana Jones”

 

1984:  Madonna

 

1988:  “Beetlejuice”

 

1989:  “Ghostbusters”

 

1993:  “Power Rangers”

 

1996:  The Spice Girls

 

1998:  Ghostface from “Scream”

 

2000:  Britney Spears

 

2001:  Harry Potter and Hermione Granger

 

2002:  “Spider-Man”

 

2005:  Darth Vader

 

 

(You can see every year from 1950 to 2005 here.)

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