![]() Consider one of its first purchases, in 1937: Snow White, from a little company called Walt Disney. But Ben Cooper had an advantage: The company excelled at getting licenses to characters before they became popular and, in a lot of cases, before anyone else. Face mask with blond braids that have texture and feel fuzzy. Halpern Company, otherwise known as Halco, was manufacturing Popeye, Olive Oil and Wimpy costumes during the same period. Ben Cooper 1960s original Goldilocks costume with mask in original box. Collegeville Flag and Manufacturing Company, one of Ben Cooper’s chief competitors, had been doing it since the early 1920s, and H. No longer were we limited to the question, “So, are you going to be a ghost, a goblin, or a witch?” The question became, “So, what are you going to be for Halloween?” Thanks in large part to Ben Cooper, costume choices became unlimited-and Hollywood-inflected-helping Halloween become the pop culture phenomenon it is today.īen Cooper wasn’t the first company to manufacture Halloween costumes, nor was it the first to license Hollywood creations for the costume-buying public. But he and his company awakened generations of kids to the potential of what Halloween could be. We’ve done costume countdowns, created galleries of classic Ben Cooper designs that would make for great T-shirts, and much more. It was a Ben Cooper.īen Cooper, the son of a restaurant owner who became a costume impresario, didn’t invent the Halloween costume. An original, vintage costume We’ve been going on for years now that we’ve wanted to see Ben Cooper make a big return to Halloween season, what with this being a Golden Age of retro merchandising. But it was a cheap and easy way for me to become my favorite Wookiee. ![]()
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