For kids and grownups alike, Halloweens from year to year are often marked by which character of the day captures the public imagination and begins to reproduce, virus-like, as a Halloween costume. Last year, for instance, it was all about Green Man. A few years before that, it was Richie Tenenbaum. (And if you’re young and dumb as fuck, it would seem that blackface, sadly, is also back in certain circles.) But this year, perhaps no one captures The Way We Live Now more than Kate Gosselin. Having already dissected the haircut Kate made famous (but which really and truly belongs to the Curiously De-Feminized Women of the Northeast), we now present the Kate Gosselin Halloween Wig, currently retailing for just $14.99. Now, while it’s true that the wig immediately serves two purposes — Halloween costume and a solution for the (Balding) Curiously De-Feminized Women of the Northeast — we’re kind of anxious to see the wig’s natural super-heavy-meta outcome this October 31st. That is, when women who really have this haircut already wear this wig over that haircut and call it a costume. Certain things are just inevitable, you know.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:45 am.