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[Died By Bear]

Love it. It's the only day of the year I'm allowed to dress up like a knight templar, and go around poking damsels in distress with my big sword.

[Adventurer]

Well, I thought about that one. I would say probably 30 years ago i.e. in the 1980s, it wouldn't have been as common as it is now for American adults passed their early 20s to dress up. However, since Halloween has become more and more commercialized and people are in less of a hurry to grow up, and don't mind being seen as big kids, so you're more likely to see older people dressing up. Halloween is still primarily a children's thing. However, now, it's just celebrated differently if you're a kid versus if you're an adult. If you're a kid, you're having your candy and your costume, for the adults you're having your beer and your costume.

As far as the U.K., it was not as common in the U.K. to engage in festivities as it was in say the United States and Ireland, and 20-30 years ago, only a few English kids would trick-or-treat, and some crabby English neighbors would sometimes blast the few kids who would do it, but some did it. Now, it's relatively common to hear of English kids trick-or-treating. The costumes in England are not generally as elaborate as the ones one might be in North America. That may be changing. I am going based on my observance and reading about Halloween and talking to people from different backgrounds and ages.

In Korea, many Koreans who know North Americans and the Irish celebrate Halloween a lot in comparison to their English counterparts, they expect all the foreigners and North Americans to celebrate it. They imagine Halloween to be celebrated more than it's actually celebrated in North America. Halloween is a money-maker, so it will be promoted more and more.

And it could come to Korea with more force and become somewhat mainstream. If that were to happen, it would take quite a while. Halloween trick-or-treating in England didn't become mainstream until recently. I did wear a costume last year. I wish I did this year.


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[Gorf]

You sound like a lot of fun

[rainism]

the only excuse a grown man has for being dressed up for Halloween is if his wife/gf "forced" him to dress up.

unless you're doing the pimp and his hos act
though that one is a little played out.

[Gorf]

I'm sure rainism was doing something much more exciting and fun than attending the crazy costume parties this weekend, right, pal?

[rainism]

[carpetdope]

Dressed up 5 of my 6 years here. Seeing the same thing over and over. Moved on.

If you want to dress up and get smashed in the street that's fine. What's just as irritating as the so-called fuddy-duddies saying it's childish are the 20-30-somethings claiming free spiritedness because they painted their faces and stood in the road drinking.

I wonder... at what age does it move from "wild and crazy" to "a bit pathetic"?

Mustn't I suck at parties?

[ThingsComeAround]

Nothing better than seeing a bunch of "devils", "schoolgirls" and "kittens" in tight clothes

The dudes dressed up like women was a whole other bag of

[radcon]