Ben Cooper

But in terms of Halloween, like, Leatherface was there, but it didn't, it didn't kick off a huge, huge, huge wave of Halloween costumes related to Leatherface.

There wasn't a Ben Cooper Leatherface costume-

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so a lot of people myself included-

Or they were Ben Cooper and it was literally vinyl and a plastic mask.

Yes.

They'd suddenly sprout a seasonal aisle in October.

And that's where you'd find the classic boxed costumes from Ben Cooper or Collegeville, the thin plastic mask with the elastic string, the vinyl smock with the character printed right on the front.

You older folks, you guys all remember that stuff.

A retail review I found from the early 60s called Halloween a surprisingly strong novelty season.

If you want his hands, you got to buy his hands and his shoes on your own.

One thing they don't talk about in here is the Ben Cooper stuff.

When do you think that that, I mean, that's been popular forever, right? When do you think that started to fall off?

It had to have been 90s.

form masks.

Some of the greatest things ever.

Dude, Ben Cooper did everything for that.

Like...

One was a Chewbacca costume that I actually wore two years in a row.

One year, my mom bought me one of the big, like the, it was Ben Cooper, the masks, the big expensive ones that I still had until about 20 years ago.

And she made the costume herself.

My mother was a home ec teacher.