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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,2001
The Scream mask costs $8, and is considered an inexpensive mask. A Halloween hockey mask costs $2.50 and a Zorro-style eye mask costs only $1.50, but several head-covering masks, such as South Park characters and Frankenstein, cost nearly $40 to rent.
Mullet wigs cost $32 to own, while other favorites, an Afro wig and a standard solid-colored wig rent for $8 and $9, respectively.
Photos by Anthony Reyes
Looking the part on Halloween takes determination and dollars. Do you know how much work you and your friends put into those perfect costumes?
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The basement of Sarah's Fabrics, 925 Massachusetts St., looks surprisingly tidy. The wooden countertop is covered with costumes that Stella Groner and two employees are putting back on the display racks after a turbulent weekend of renting them out for Halloween parties.
The costumes include vinyl go-go dresses, Popeye,
Superman (with built-in foam muscles), Hannibal Lector,
witches, flappers and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
The most popular costumes this Halloween?
The most popular costumes this Halloween
Police officers, flappers, pimps, *Star Wars* characters
and Evis, Groner said. Afrowigs and Osama bin Laden
costumes also were favored.
Groner said the most inexpensive costumes were satin flapper dresses, monks and convicts, all $20. Groner and owner Sarah Fayman said they thought a gorilla suit and a vinyl Batman costume were the most expensive, $60, until Fayman realized it was instead the zoot suit and its accessories, $110.
While some students opted not to pay amounts for a costume that mirrors the cost of Western Civilization I required readings, there was one accessory students flocked to without a care about the cost.
with our baby car, "Boo." The mullet wig. "Groner said. 'It's $2, but it's awesome. Students don't care about the price. They shell out for this thing.'"
the devil's pitchfork costs $3. But paired with red fishell stockings, a hat of devil horns and face paint, the costume's devilish accessories can cost $13.