Cigarette Halloween Costume
Nothing says 1976 quite like two Gen Xers dressed up for Halloween as a packet of cigarettes and a book of matches. At least they’re filter cigarettes, right?
I was just thinking about that time in 1977 when my BF Cindy and I had walked to the convenient store in Kermit, Texas to buy her mom a pack of cigarettes.
Ahhh, the good old days before political correctness ran us all ragged. The bygones were almost as sweet as those chalky white candy cigarettes my father forbid me to have. Bubblegum cigars, too.
Below is a picture I originally shared in 2009. It’s of a kid dressed up like a cigar. Poor thing.
Cigar Halloween Costume
Do you remember seeing a cigarette Halloween costume growing up?
Another Cigarette Halloween Costume
Is the first photo really from October of 1976? How can you authenticate the photo’s origin? That image contains what I perceive as aspects of the 1978 feature film HALLOWEEN (written by John Carpenter & Debra Hill). The pack of matches is evocative of the Rabbit in Red matches in that film. The woman wearing yellow resembles the character Annie from HALLOWEEN. In that 1978 film, there’s a scene in which the protagonist (Laurie Strode) sees someone near a hedge; her friend Annie approaches the hedge to investigate. In one shot in that scene, there’s cigarette smoke wafting through the frame (allegedly a mistake). Perhaps that scene inspired those who staged this photograph, or perhaps someone involved in the production of the 1978 feature film HALLOWEEN saw this image and took inspiration from it.