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It connects each era’s popular outfits to broader national interests—comic heroes, cowboys, astronauts, princesses, and pet costumes tracked by a national survey. 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For almost a hundred years, a plain white ghost has haunted American doorsteps, and it barely costs a thing. Back in the 1930s, most children didn't buy costumes at a store at all. They pieced them together at home from whatever the family could spare, turning old clothes, scraps, and imagination into witches, hobos, and skeletons. A costume, it turns out, is a kind of time capsule that tells you exactly what a decade was dreaming about.  \nThose homemade witches and ghosts got some polished company once factories  \nentered the game. In the 1930s and 1940s, companies began printing costumes based on comic-strip and cartoon characters, and kids suddenly wanted to be somebody famous instead of something spooky. The costumes were often stiff masks with a printed smock, cheap enough that many families could finally buy rather than sew. Suddenly Halloween was less about scaring the neighbors and more about becoming your favorite hero for one glowing night. That shift, from spooky to celebrity, would only speed up as the twentieth century roared on.  \nIf heroes were climbing to the top, cowboys came galloping right alongside them. During the 1950s, Westerns filled movie screens and the brand-new glow of television, so children everywhere strapped on holsters and pretended to ride the range. Then the world looked up: the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union sent rockets skyward, and by the 1960s kids were trading cowboy hats for astronaut helmets and shiny silver suits. Can you guess why? When real astronauts became national heroes, dressing as one let an ordinary kid feel part of something enormous.  \nSilver spacesuits eventually made room for capes, and superheroes swooped in to stay. From the 1970s onward, movies and comics turned caped crusaders and masked defenders into some of the most requested costumes year after year. Princesses gowns billowed up right beside them, especially as animated films gave children a whole gallery of royalty to imitate. Notice the pattern: whatever stories the country was watching, children wore to the door the very next October. A costume rack, in other words, is really a shelf of the year's biggest hits.  \nTo find out which of those hits is winning today, retailers actually keep score. Since  \nthe early 2000s, the National Retail Federation has run a yearly survey asking Americans what they plan to dress as, and the results read like a popularity contest for the imagination. Superheroes, princesses, witches, and spooky classics like ghosts and vampires trade places near the top from year to year. The survey also tracks something furrier: pet costumes, because millions of owners now dress up their dogs and cats too. The most common pet costume, the survey has found, is often a simple pumpkin.  \nA dog dressed as a pumpkin may be new, but that stitched-together spirit is as old as the holiday itself. The very first trick-or-treaters in the 1930s and the kid zipping up a superhero suit today are chasing the same thrill: becoming someone else for a single evening. What changes is only the mirror the costume holds  \nup, reflecting cowboys, astronauts, heroes, and royalty as each rises and fades. Peel back any Halloween costume and you're really looking at a snapshot of what a whole country was excited about that year. And abedsheet ghost, the cheapest costume of all, has quietly outlasted every trend that ever tried to replace it.  \n Popular Halloween Costumes Through the Decades Name:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which statement best captures two central ideas developed across the passage?\u003Cbr>A. Costumes reflect what a decade cares about, and Halloween dress-up has shifted from homemade and spooky toward store-bought characters.\u003Cbr>B. Astronaut costumes started the whole tradition, and superheroes have never ranked near the top of surveys.\u003Cbr>C","cbCaigKSqKM4RDVe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigKSqKM4RDVe","pdf",86891,"English","# Costume origins and homemade traditions\n# Factory-made characters and celebrity Halloween\n# Cowbo y to astronaut to superhero shifts\n# Princesses, comics, and annual popularity patterns\n# Modern surveys, pet costumes, and enduring thrills","[{\"question\":\"How did Halloween costumes change from the 1930s to the 1940s?\",\"answer\":\"In the 1930s, many children made costumes at home from whatever they had. 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