Check out my totally awesome, totally scary, totally realistic, totally vinyl Darth Vader Halloween costume, from 1977. If you look closely, you may notice that I added a grey T-shirt and some black gardening gloves to complete the look.
Do they even make costumes like this any more? Because while it's awesome to dress up like a pimp, the damn kids today are really missing out if they can't experience the joy of trying to breathe through that tiny little mouth hole* while the tiny rubber bands cut into their ears and the strings that hold the whole thing together do their best to come untied while you're walking across the street.
*Though Darth Vader was probably the first and last costume where the inherent breathing difficulties and resulting wheezing noises actually helped make the costume more authentic.






