At the time, the most popular costumes were traditional Halloween figures such as devils, ghosts, skeletons, and witches. Costumes often sold for $1.25 ($16 in 2022 dollars). Penney, Sears, Woolworth's, and five-and-dime stores. The company began selling its costumes through large retailers such as J. Its costumes were generally very thin fabric with a silk-screened image on the front that sold for less than $3. was one of the largest and most prominent Halloween costume manufacturers in the United States. The two companies formally merged and incorporated as Ben Cooper, Inc., on December 8, 1942.
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Fishbach, Inc.-which had a license to produce costumes based on characters owned by The Walt Disney Company such as Donald Duck and Snow White-in 1937 and began selling Disney costumes under Fishbach's Spotlight brand. With live theatre becoming rarer in the 1930s due to the Great Depression and Halloween becoming a more popular holiday, Cooper established Ben Cooper, Inc., in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. Cooper designed costumes and sets for the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem and several editions of the Ziegfeld Follies. He studied accounting and briefly sought a career as a songwriter before founding a theatrical costume business in 1927. in the 1960s.įounder Ben Cooper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1906. A translucent Halloween mummy mask sold by Ben Cooper, Inc.
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