Halloween costumes in the 70's and 80's

Even as a little kid I didn't understand why some of these costumes were designed in a way that the body of the costume shows a picture of the character's face on it. I wanted the costume to look exactly like the costume the character wore. The Wonder Woman costume looks more accurate, but kids who wore the Darth Vader costume and The Incredible Hulk costume were forced to wear a picture of their mask on their chests. 

Those poor kids in that 70's Woolworth Halloween commercial video finally got to star in a commercial on TV, and yet their faces were all hidden by masks. That would have been a bit of a bummer. 

I can still smell the scent of a new Halloween mask in my memory. How strange it would sound to talk inside those masks. There was usually just a tiny slit for your mouth so you could talk and breathe, and year after year it was fun to see what you'd look like sticking your tongue out, and you'd always kind of scratch it in the process. Masks had to be pulled up to sample candy, although by the 80's we all knew that you should never taste any of your candy until you got home, or else it would have a razor blade or poison inside which would kill you.

If you've been to any of the big box stores lately, you've seen that the Halloween stuff is already out. I didn't even go down the Halloween candy aisles, but I could literally smell the candy as I walked by. That scent takes me straight back to the smell of my Halloween trick or treat candy after it had just been emptied out onto the dining room table in order to sort through all the sweet rewards. Halloween sweet Halloween.

Thank you to Del655 for posting this Woolworth Woolco commercial on YouTube. I don't remember going to Woolco, but I do remember going to Woolworth's (to me it was always Woolworth's rather than Woolworth), and I remember their catalogs (toys!!). For more info on Woolworth's, here's the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company