How do people react to adults dressing up for Halloween?
No-one will think it odd if you are in fancy dress on the evening of Hallowe'en: but Hallowe'en costumes would be expected to be ghost/ghoul/vampire/witch or at a stretch generic horror, rather than random fancy dress. Every fancy dress shop will sell a wide range of costumes and accessories for adults, because fancy dress is reasonably popular all year round in Britain.
I think it’s regional in the UK. Halloween is massive in Northern Ireland and young adults go all out with the costumes when going out. Brought a friend from London over for Halloween when I was in Uni and she couldn’t get over how much effort everyone went to and said it wasn’t like that in London. Lived in Newcastle for 3 years and everyone went all out there with the costumes too (but most of the city is students). I think it’s highly variable. I have a group of friends, we’re not quite nerds but do fancy dress frequently, including a runway walk with prizes. But even a group of us walking to a party in costume together in many parts of the country attracts abuse or random loud sarcasm Eg “yes let’s all just randomly dress up as a witch” when it was Halloween. Try and find fellow Halloween lovers and stick together and keep your costume to something directly Halloween themed.
Unless your work have a "dress up day" for halloween, you won't find most adults dressing up for the day. Some supermarket workers may wear headbands/those headband bopper things with spiders or skulls...but not everyone. If it's late afternoon/early evening and you nip to the supermarket in costume, people will assume you're on your way to a party. Go at 9am and you may get some odd looks. Halloween parties/themed nights at pubs/clubs - people will dress up. Even if people go "sexy", there will likely be a horror/scary theme, like "sexy dead schoolgirl zombie" or it'll be like zombie, ghost, vampire type. Not random "I want to dress up as a bin lorry". Trick or treating - hit and miss. We've rarely had trick or treaters (as a child, I was the youngest on the road and the far end is all elderly people in bungalows). I've never been, and only I think twice opened the door to them because it was the first year we had children as neighbours so I was prepared. I think after that, they figured it's just not worth it down our road. So unless you're under 10, I doubt people would bother.
It can depend on the workplace but I worked in an office where they encouraged staff to dress up for Halloween if it fell on a weekday. Nobody cares what you dress up as - within reason of course - it's not just traditional "vampire etc" costumes either. There are a lot of costume shops you should be able to find, especially in London.
I think it’s regional in the UK. Halloween is massive in Northern Ireland and young adults go all out with the costumes when going out. Brought a friend from London over for Halloween when I was in Uni and she couldn’t get over how much effort everyone went to and said it wasn’t like that in London. Lived in Newcastle for 3 years and everyone went all out there with the costumes too (but most of the city is students). I think it’s highly variable. I have a group of friends, we’re not quite nerds but do fancy dress frequently, including a runway walk with prizes. But even a group of us walking to a party in costume together in many parts of the country attracts abuse or random loud sarcasm Eg “yes let’s all just randomly dress up as a witch” when it was Halloween. Try and find fellow Halloween lovers and stick together and keep your costume to something directly Halloween themed.
Unless your work have a "dress up day" for halloween, you won't find most adults dressing up for the day. Some supermarket workers may wear headbands/those headband bopper things with spiders or skulls...but not everyone. If it's late afternoon/early evening and you nip to the supermarket in costume, people will assume you're on your way to a party. Go at 9am and you may get some odd looks. Halloween parties/themed nights at pubs/clubs - people will dress up. Even if people go "sexy", there will likely be a horror/scary theme, like "sexy dead schoolgirl zombie" or it'll be like zombie, ghost, vampire type. Not random "I want to dress up as a bin lorry". Trick or treating - hit and miss. We've rarely had trick or treaters (as a child, I was the youngest on the road and the far end is all elderly people in bungalows). I've never been, and only I think twice opened the door to them because it was the first year we had children as neighbours so I was prepared. I think after that, they figured it's just not worth it down our road. So unless you're under 10, I doubt people would bother.
It can depend on the workplace but I worked in an office where they encouraged staff to dress up for Halloween if it fell on a weekday. Nobody cares what you dress up as - within reason of course - it's not just traditional "vampire etc" costumes either. There are a lot of costume shops you should be able to find, especially in London.
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