on Baker Beach. Now it takes place in Nevada, but SF still has a huge contingent of people who flock to the event . Plus there's tourists rolling through the city before heading to the event, many of which end up at Haight Street Costumes.
"Nobody was coming all month, I was expecting a steady flow of people," said AJ Spaziano of Haight Street Costumes."Then it was all last week that everyone came storming through, which makes sense because we're a tourist stop. Here, then Reno, then you're there. So we were catching that last wave."Costume preferences were all over the map, but with a few notable trends.
"A lot of people would come here, shop everywhere else, and come back because they couldn't find fur jackets anywhere," Spaziano said."Now we can prep for next year.""People who are following the rules are not getting sequins as much," Spaziano explained."They're likely to become trash, because they get caught on things. So a lot of people avoided that, and were going for shiny iridescent things.
Space and disco were two more common themes, but customers just seemed hungry for costumes in general.