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Please help me F!S, you're my only source of information when Google and Wikipedia fail me and I dare not ask

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I have this character born in England in 1990 and a plot-bunny involving him dressing up for a holiday as a child. (Something that would be somewhat important, not just any dress-up play.)

I'm aware the dressing-up traditions there must be different from the "carnavals" I'm familiar with; so far I've only found information about Ireland and Scotland today, and I sort-of know of North America through depictions in fictions. Please tell me, what did British children do for Halloween during the 90ties?
And/or were there any other special occasions for children to dress up?

...British kids celebrate Halloween? Have I been lied to all my life? I thought that holiday was more of an American thing.

Yep. In a different way though. From my memories as a kid, it was a much more celtic (for want of a better word) celebration back then. There was a nod towards dressing up, trick-or-treating, etc. Most people carved pumpkins (or squashes) though and put them out, and there was a lot of telling of ghost stories.

Since the 90's it has become an increasingly commercialised celebration over here, and that's definitely an American influence.

Son of a bitch. I have been living a lie. A LIE! How can I live with myself now?

Anyway, thanks for the info, anon.

Be strong! ;)

No probs.

Well I grew up in Britain (England) in the '90's so I feel relatively qualified to answer this. ;)

Context: lower middle class family, non-religious, not very well off, living in the suburbs/rural southern England.

Things everyone in my home village/town did for halloween: carved pumpkins and put them on the doorstep.

What my family specifically did: half-hearted trick or treating (a road or two). Some years a small party for kids. Costumes were usually home made (mostly bin bags made into witches outfits), decorations also home made. Food was a bigger thing - candy witches eyes, jellies with worms in, that kind of thing. Again, all home made. Biggest expense was usually face paints if you were going all out.

Some families didn't bother beyond pumpkins. One family I knew were very religious used to hide at the back of their house and turn the lights off so no one would trick-or-treat them.

Hope this helps, anon!

It wasn't a hugely commercial thing. You could buy things like masks, face paints, witches hats but only from fancy dress stores. Most kids parents (in my town) just made costumes from scratch. Mine were mostly bin bag witch's dresses, with black cardboard witch's hats. We used to paint bats on things and hang them around the place.

*Ignore that bottom paragraph! Self-editing fail.

One family I knew were very religious used to hide at the back of their house and turn the lights off so no one would trick-or-treat them.

SDAs or JWs?

It does; thank you very much!

I am a scot from a remote village. I dressed up, and I got sweets for singing or dramatically telling a story.

My sister and I were kids in the 90's in England and I never remember dressing up for halloween at all. My brother did once or twice but he was born n '98 so he was dressing up in the late 00's, and it wasn't such a big thing as american halloween seems to be. But we lived in a small village so there werent many houses to go to anyway =p We celebrated bonfire night/fireworks night/guy fawkes night a lot more, but you don't really dress up for that.
But we might have just been an odd family =p

It probably depends on where you live, I grew up in the 90's and we did trick or treating and dressed up but it was never a big thing, a lot of families didn't really take part so it was only ever very small groups out on Halloween. It also died off for us when I hit about 12-13.

This is super late but just in case you check back, I'd like to point out that in Britain when people dress up for Halloween it's always as something Halloweeny - witches, vampires, ghosts, monsters etc. You wouldn't dress up as a princess or superhero or whatever like TV/films suggest happens in the States.

Thanks! In case you check back too, aren't there any other holiday/special occasions when kids would dress up as princesses and superheroes?

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