CLARKSVILLE, Tn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) Halloween is a holiday for all ages, and the top costumes this year covers all-age interests from super heroes to slasher movie villains.
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The top costumes for 2017, according to the National Retail Federation include the following:
Kids top choices are perennial characters such as Batman, Star Wars and superheroes Spider Man and Captain America.
Other choices for children are animals (cats, dogs, monkeys), witches, pirates, ghosts and Wonder Woman.
Many of these characters are also favored by adults with the addition and vampires, zombies and slasher movie villains such as Jason from the Halloween movie series, Freddy Krueger and the Scream mask.
Missing from the NFR list were Pennywise from the blockbuster IT, and Twisty The Clown from American Horror Story.
Based on an Ebay search, these two will likely be plentiful this year as will political figures such as Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.