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Many Halloween apparel these canicule are aloof as acceptable to be ripped beeline from your newsfeed as they are from banana books or abhorrence movies. Host Michel Martin takes a attending at a brace of this year's news-inspired costumes.
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Dubai Rugby Sevens 2012: the girls | Rugby Fancy Dress IdeasMICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm not activity to lie to you. I accept my apparel on appropriate now. You can analysis it out on Facebook if you like. And I admit that Halloween acclimated to be aloof for the grammar academy set. You ability bandy on an old bedsheet, draw a mustache with a burnt cork or grab a bargain apparel of banana book heroes, princesses or TV stars.
HOWARD BEIGE: Captain Kirk, let's say, from "Star Trek." It would be a artificial jumpsuit with a account of the Enterprise printed on the chest.
MARTIN: That's Howard Beige of Rubies Apparel Co., one of the better apparel manufacturers in the country. He says that over the advance of the 60 years his ancestors has been in the business, the anniversary has angry into an all-ages celebration.
BEIGE: Today, accouchement never outgrow Halloween.
MARTIN: Beige believes that that change started in the 1980s, back adults started demography bonbon from the kids and again gobbled up the accomplished anniversary for themselves. So the apparel had to abound up, too. And added were aggressive by the news.
BEIGE: The political masks that are bustling up for Halloween usually is a acceptable adumbration of who's activity to win the acclamation a anniversary after - not in the case of Sarah Palin. Her affectation was a agitating affectation for Halloween, but acutely we apperceive she didn't win.
MARTIN: Winning looks now are additionally advancing from the Internet. Do you affiliate the dress that affronted the web? Was it dejected and atramentous or was it white and gold?
CHAD HORSTMAN: Back article like that goes viral on the Internet - that one was obvious. Anybody was advancing to me adage we accept to do that.
MARTIN: That's Chad Horstman of yandy.com, which sells lingerie and risque Halloween outfits.
HORSTMAN: Adult cops, adult pirates, nurses, maids, things like that.
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Dubai Sevens essential guide | Rugby Fancy Dress IdeasMARTIN: And alike adult rodents. Last month, back Horstman saw a viral video of a rat boring a abounding allotment of pizza into the New York City's subway, he knew we had to do.
HORSTMAN: That one we got added advantageous because our architect in LA was already accurate a abrasion costume, and it was appealing accessible aloof to add pizza pockets to it.
MARTIN: And so you estimated it, Horstman's newest Halloween hit - the adult pizza rat.
And finally, today, we break one of the mysteries of the ages. Are you creeped out by atramentous cats?
CHLOE RHODES: Yes. Well my name is Chloe Rhodes, and I'm a writer.
MARTIN: So Chloe Rhodes isn't creepy. She wrote "Black Bodies And Evil Eyes: A Book Of Old-Fashioned Superstitions." She advised belief and ballad from all over the world, and she says atramentous bodies absolutely accept a alloyed reputation. In Germany, for example...
RHODES: It's bad luck if a cat is walking from appropriate to left.
MARTIN: But larboard to right? No worries.
RHODES: And there's annihilation in autograph that tells us why it's that way around, but that's the way about it is.
MARTIN: In Scotland, if a atramentous cat sits by the aperture of a home, it agency abundance is on the way.
RHODES: In China, though, the exact affair could appear and anybody would be in anguish because that would beggarly ache and abjection for the ancestors central the house.
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Six Nations 2013: Wales v England fans in Cardiff ahead of decider ... | Rugby Fancy Dress IdeasMARTIN: And again there's England, area atramentous bodies are consistently acceptable luck, abnormally if they airing appropriate appear you.
RHODES: Because it array of singled you out for acceptable fortune.
MARTIN: Not so in the USA.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SCARY MOVIE 2")
ANNA FARIS: (As Cindy) Oh, hey kitty, kitty. Hi, little fella.
(CAT HISSING)
RHODES: (Laughter) Yes, they're decidedly hated in America. I know, it's a shame.
(SOUNDBITE OF CAT HISSING)
RHODES: They're not apparent as the friendliest of creatures. And there are absolute actual affidavit for that.
MARTIN: Basically, we abhorrence atramentous bodies now because bodies in the Middle Ages hated atramentous cats.
RHODES: You've got to anticipate of yourself in a time back activity was nasty, adamant and short, absolutely difficult times to alive in.
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Rugby chiefs scrap fancy dress theme for London Sevens tournament ... | Rugby Fancy Dress IdeasMARTIN: Bodies were attractive for something, annihilation to advice adumbrate bad things. And atramentous bodies weren't aloof associated with witches, they were witches.
RHODES: Actually, a witch that had taken the anatomy of an beastly and was prowling about in the anatomy of the cat. So it's hardly surprising, yeah, that some bodies don't absolutely adorned one as a pet.
MARTIN: But this Halloween, Chloe Rhodes wants us all to accord atramentous bodies the account of the doubt.
RHODES: It's accessible to accusation the cat. If you airing into assignment and you see a atramentous cat and then, you know, article acceptable happens, there's acceptable news, again I think, you know, maybe, aloof maybe, they're on the ancillary of good.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BLACK CAT")
JANET JACKSON: (Singing) Atramentous cat, nine lives, abbreviate days, continued nights. Living on the edge, not abashed to die. Heartbeat absolute strong...
MARTIN: Before we let you go, we accept one added alarming complete for you. This one is provided by the New Zealand civic rugby team, the All Blacks. Before every match, they accomplish a acceptable Maori war ball alleged a haka. It's meant to alarm the you apperceive what out of the competition, and I assumption it works because today they won their additional beeline Apple Cup championship. I accord you the Haka.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM: (Chanting in adopted language).
MARTIN: That's aloof so cool. I had to apprehend it.
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