will people laugh at me if i wear a homemade halloween costume?”
Halloween has always been a day that a majority of people in the United States look forward to and with projections of consumer spend in 2008 to top the $5 billion mark, it has quickly become one of the more popular holidays to celebrate. Part of this popularity is due to the tradition of trick-or-treating as well as the ability for Halloween to be a fun and enjoyable holiday activity. However, for many people who celebrate this holiday, especially for the 18-35 year old demographic where it is by far the most popular, Halloween is not only a holiday, but it’s also a night to let loose and get noticed by the rest of your friends, family and completely random strangers. This is normally done through the ritual of creating an awesomely over-the-top, scary, weird, awkward, sexy or hilarious Halloween costume that many of the holiday lovers spend quite a bit of time working on. Over the years the people who create these costumes as well as the costumes themselves seem to all fall into a pa