Unique Halloween costumes: children’s creativity

2021-11-11 07:17:11 By : Ms. Vicky Lyu

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Forget about dragons and witches, children now want to be vacuum cleaners and wind chimes for Halloween.

Galyn Bernard, the co-founder of the children's clothing company Primary, says that it's all about imagination. The company shared a list of the most unusual clothing requirements with parents today.

"I think kids are fascinated by daily necessities in some way, maybe we, as adults, are not that fascinated. So I think part of the reason is just,'The thing here is a cool machine, I see all the time , I want to know what it feels like to be a person,'" Bernard said. "I think it is curiosity and imagination that drive all this."

Bernard is the mother of twin girls. She said that Primary Costumes, the clothing department of her company, receives 1,000 special requests each year, half of which are for unconventional clothing such as water heaters, wind chimes, and sand dunes. The company even has a "clothing concierge" who will outline children's ideas and help them turn them into reality.

"There will always be things like ghosts and witches," Bernard said. But, she said, more and more requests are for unique clothing.

In addition to vacuum cleaners and sand dunes, the following is a list of other unique clothing requirements that Primary fans have put forward on Instagram and Facebook:

If you can figure out a way to make unique Halloween costumes with clothes that they will wear more than once, so much the better.

Bernard's twin daughters, now 12 years old, Halloween is the Hershey Bar, and another year of candy corn.

"One year, they were Hershey's bars, it was just the top and bottom of PJ," Bernard said. "They wear pajamas all year because they are cute, and the tops and bottoms are super comfortable. They like sugar, so one year they are also candy corn. It is actually a white T-shirt, a cute skirt and Orange down jackets, and they always make those orange down jackets worse."

Bernard said that Halloween costumes usually follow popular culture and cartoon trends; however, don’t be surprised if you see a refrigerator on the street.

Randi Richardson is the editorial assistant of TODAY.com in New York and also writes for NBC BLK.