When I was a little kid---still desperately eager for the '70s prime-time hero's costume sold at the drug store as a thin plastic face mask with an elastic string stapled to either side, with a non-fire-retardant machine-printed theme-tunic---parents didn't dress up to take their progeny around the neighborhood. I wonder what's changed in North-American culture that so many adult parents now take Halloween as a obligated occasion to outfit the family as a cos-play fantasy.
When I was a little kid---still desperately eager for the '70s prime-time hero's costume sold at the drug store as a thin plastic face mask with an elastic string stapled to either side, with a non-fire-retardant machine-printed theme-tunic---parents didn't dress up to take their progeny around the neighborhood. I wonder what's changed in North-American culture that so many adult parents now take Halloween as a obligated occasion to outfit the family as a cos-play fantasy.
I wouldn't want obligation but I love the cosplaying families.