Mundane halloween

The idea behind "Mundane Halloween" is just as it sounds: people dress up in a costume that tells a boring story and involves plain and regular clothes.

Japan's mundane Halloween festival encourages costumes depicting extremely specific life situations.

I can't tell you how many times I have been "girl who forgot trash pickup in the airplane by five seconds."

In 2014, a subculture emerged in Japan called jimi halloween (地味ハロウィン), or “mundane Halloween.” It was started by a group of adults at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes.” So instead

If you thought that preparing for Halloween means investing a lot of your time and resources into an elaborate, tricky and unique costume, you’ll be surprised to see how people came up with smart ideas to avoid the hassle of spending all of their time creating crafty costumes.

Would that we all dressed for Halloween as “lady who can’t find a seat at the food court.”

Halloween is not really my thing, but I always like looking through some of the best mundane costumes from Japan via Spoon & Tamag