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Trendy Costumes For Halloween 2011

Halloween is coming up and, as expected, costumes are starting to become a hot commodity. As soon as October hits, folks start getting into a frenzy attempting to find Halloween costumes for themselves, their kids and even their animals.

Although some costumes remain popular every year "think vampires, monsters, wiseguys, cops among others "trends change every year, often influenced by whatever happens that year in the movie and music industries. As an example, a few years ago, the Joker costume was hot, thanks to the Batman film The Dark Knight.

Let's have now a glance at the costumes that are popular this year. The first thing that you might notice is a large amount of superheroes and, most especially, Captain America and, to a lesser extent Thor. Why? Simply because a couple filmsopened during summer about those superheroes and they did well enough to get kids and fans to get dressed up as them (essentially expect far more superheroes costumes next year as The Avengers movie and the Dark Knight Rises will hit the screens).

What other costumes should you plan to see this year? Well, regarding contemporary costumes, think nurses, gangsters and cops. When it comes to creepy creatures, which are a Halloween landmark, there will be masses of witches, vampires, werewolves, and the common Hollywood staples like Freddy Kruger and Jason. Talking about Hollywood, let's not forget classics like Star Wars "most particularly Darth Vader, Jedis and Stormtroopers "as well as Star Trek "Spock anybody?

Eventually there also are historic entries such as pirates, knights, princesses, Cleopatra, Romans, Spartans, cowboys, Indians and even Halloween ninja costumes.

As you can see, there are lots of decisions if you have not decided the simple way to dress up this year. While all of these costumes can be purchased online or in stores, also remember that you can make a costume yourself, which should save you a few bucks.

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