The Changing Face of Halloween Masks: 1950’s vs 2013!

Halloween masks have sure changed since I was a kid.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s we had very little choice when it came time to pick out our masks for Trick or Treating night.  They were pretty standard, very cheesy and extremely uncomfortable.  They were made out of hard painted plastic with eye holes that never seemed to match our own, well, eye holes.  Also there was a tiny fragile thin rubber band to strap over your ears to hold it on your face.  Of course, it almost never lasted  the night through.

Now, Hollywood's greatest artists have jumped on and given us some extremely graphic and sophisticated masks.  With the advent of full head masks it seems like the sky is the limit.  The artwork is finely detailed and there is almost nothing you can't get.  Of course in the 1950s our Halloween masks cost 99-cents.  Today, a good monster mask can set you back almost $100.

Look at the changes in Halloween masks comparing the 1950s to today's masks:

These are Halloween masks from the late 1950s;

And these are masks from 2013.  Notice the difference!