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That teenager was \"guising,\" and their homemade disguise is one of the oldest ancestors of the costume you might pull on this October. A Halloween costume today can be a superhero suit sealed in plastic ora bedsheet with two eyeholes, but for most of history it was something you cobbled together yourself. How did we get from soot on the face to a shelf full of ready-made outfits? The answer is a story about belief, imagination, and eventually big business.  \nThat soot-smudged guiser wasn't just playing dress-up, and understanding why means going back to the festival that shaped the season. Historians connect early Halloween disguises to Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest and the start of winter in Ireland, Scotland, and beyond. People told a story that the boundary between the living and the dead grew thin at this time, so some believe villagers disguised themselves to move about unnoticed. It's worth being careful here, though: historians debate how much of the \"disguise to fool spirits\" explanation is proven and how much is later guesswork. What we can document more confidently is guising itself, where young people went door to door in costume performing a song, joke, or trick to earn a treat.  \nThose door-to-door performers carried their traditions across the ocean, and that journey reshaped the whole custom. When Irish and Scottish immigrants arrived in the United States in large numbers during the 1800s, they brought guising and other autumn customs with them. By the early 1900s, Halloween in America had grown into a season of neighborhood parties, and children's costumes were almost always handmade. A family might stitch a clown suit from scraps, sew a ghost from a worn sheet, or fashion a witch's hat out of stiff black paper. Notice the pattern: for centuries, a costume was a product of the household, limited only by what was in the closet and how clever the maker was.  \nThat household cleverness met its match in the 1930s, when the costume stopped being something you only made and became something you could buy. Companies such as Ben Cooper and Collegeville began mass-producing Halloween costumes and masks, often sold asa boxed set with a printed smock and a thin plastic mask. Suddenly a costume was an object on a store shelf, priced so an ordinary family could afford one instead of building it from scratch. This was a real shift: the same holiday that once rewarded homemade ingenuity now rewarded whoever could get to the store. The trade-off is easy to see, since a bought costume saved time but made everyone's witch look a lot like everyone else's witch.  \nBuying that boxed costume also meant buying into whatever was popular that year, and popularity increasingly came from a screen. As movies and television spread through American homes, costume makers licensed the characters kids already loved, from cartoon figures to space heroes. A blockbuster film could send thousands of children trick-or-treating as the same character, turning a costume into a kind of billboard for the year's biggest hit. Here you can see the difference between the old way and the new: the guiser invented a disguise, while the modern trick-or-treater often chose from characters someone else had  \ninvented. Both are creative, but the source of the idea moved from the imagination of the wearer to the studios and stores selling the trend.  \nFollow that thread to today, and you'll find the two traditions living side by side rather than one erasing the other. According to annual surveys by the National Retail Federation, Americans now spend billions of dollars on Halloween each year, with costumes for children, adults, and even pets among the top categories. 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