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Citizens urged to stock up on scary stuff before October 31
IT’S NOT required by law, even in newly happy Thailand, but you really ought to get dressed up for Halloween. And if you don’t feel the urge to free your own inner goblin, dress up someone else, preferably a child, so you can share in the thrills vicariously.
To make things easy, The Mall, Emporium and Siam Paragon already have their shelves stocked for “Be Trend Halloween 2014”, also known as the Nightmare Backyard Festival.
First, you need a haunted house. Turn your home into a spook palace with skulls, hanging ghosts, pumpkins and wall wizards for the big night on October 31. Prop up a “walking dead” figurine in the corner and deck the halls with pumpkin lanterns.
Among the theme accoutrements on offer are owl bags, red clutches adorned with skulls, downright scary cases for your iPhone 5, and black T-shirts with frighteningly realistic prints.
There are all sorts of masks to turn you into a monster or a movie star, as well as Dracula hoods, black and white Vampirella dresses for women, black leather handbags swirling with ghosts, devil headbands and bony bracelets and silver rings.
