Fancy dress sales jump as Halloween overtakes Guy Fawkes Night


	Fancy dress sales jump as Halloween overtakes Guy Fawkes Night

FancyDress

10-29-2009 12:18 PM

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guy fawkes night, halloween

FancyDress says:

Interesting article about how Halloween is becoming more and more popular in the UK and that it has now even overtaken Guy Fawkes Night as a holiday.

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  their main autumn celebration, with one leading fancy dress shop on track to 
  sell £2 million of costumes over Halloween.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6364768/Fancy-dress-sales-jump-as-Halloween-overtakes-Guy-Fawkes-Night.html">Emma Angel, one of the firm's directors, said they had never known such an 
  appetite for ghoulish and comedy outfits as consumers shook off worries 
  about the recession and increasingly opted to party on Halloween rather than 
  Guy Fawkes Night. 
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