Happy Halloween!

It’s again the time of the year when the freaks come out. Halloween, the classic holiday that has its roots in the Celtic harvest festivities and Christian All Saints Day falling around this time of the year. Finland is still only adopting this holiday as a great reason to throw a party. Still it is amusing to see kids going trick or treating in the neighborhood dressed as ghosts and vampires. Just few years back folks usually didn’t have candy or any treats for the kids and ended up getting tricked. Well today I would imagine folks are more prepared and won’t get their house egged, heh.

Halloween has also had its impact on fashion just like movies, literature and so many forms of culture. Every time I think of Halloween I think of a song from Geto Boys called Mind Playing Tricks On Me.

Not sure why, I guess it’s the bit in the song where Bushwick Bill rhymes, “this year Halloween fell on a weekend me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating. Robbing little kids for bags, till an old man got behind our ass…”

Nevertheless it’s not just music but the season is rather popular launch time for scary movies. Fashion-wise, for the past few years symbols such as skulls have become rather popular and widely used as patterns or even brand logos. Yes, I know skulls are more tied to the Day of The Dead (El Día de los Muertos) where the skull or calavera is a traditional symbol for the holiday. But there are certain tie between these holidays, like the timing and the All Saints Day.

Of course Halloween symbols like Jack-o’-lantern are all over fashion pieces as well but I would still argue it’s more about the skulls.

Well, in celebration of this Holiday, we’re throwing off a Halloween promotion with all of The Year Of… products available at a special promotion price. The promotion will last until 17th of November.

We have more Halloween related blogging on its way, but this is all for now. I am off to trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween, peace.