This Ben Cooper Frankenstein costume sold for $125 in Sept. Collegeville appears to be defunct, while Halco now focuses on Christmas paraphernalia. It’s worth noting that Ben Cooper had some competition Collegeville and Halco also did the same boxed-outfit gimmick both can be found on auction sites, and sometimes the brands are mistaken for one another. When live theatre became less popular, and Halloween became more so, Cooper set up shop making kids’ costumes.įrom the 1930s to the mid-1980s, the company made hundreds of them, most so self-referential they had the name and a picture of what their wearers were supposed to be printed on their plastic or nylon tunics and their accompanying masks. Cooper, the man who founded the eponymous business, started as a costumer for Harlem’s Cotton Club and the Ziegfeld Follies. The company, named after its founder, sounds like something from colonial America but was created in 20th-century New York-on the Lower East Side in 1906, to be precise. The costume might have been that of a superhero or a monster, but it was probably made by Ben Cooper. Several generations born in the 20th century enjoyed the pleasures of dressing up for Halloween in a store-bought outfit. A vintage 1977 Ben Cooper Star Wars costume sold for $55 in Sept.
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