The Most Popular Halloween Costume the Year You Were Born

You can usually tell what’s popular by what people wear for Halloween.  “Reader’s Digest” put together a list of the most popular Halloween costume for every year from 1950 to 2005.

Here are the highlights:

1953:  Mickey Mouse

1954:  Batman

1957:  Frankenstein’s Monster

1965:  Sonny Bono and Cher

1967:  Morticia Addams from “The Addams Family”

1969:  Astronaut

1971:  Willy Wonka

1975:  Dr. Frank-N-Furter from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

1978:  Michael Myers from “Halloween”

1981:  “Indiana Jones”

1984:  Madonna

1988:  “Beetlejuice”

1989:  “Ghostbusters”

1993:  “Power Rangers”

1996:  The Spice Girls

1998:  Ghostface from “Scream”

2000:  Britney Spears

2001:  Harry Potter and Hermione Granger

2002:  “Spider-Man”

2005:  Darth Vader

(You can see every year from 1950 to 2005 here.)