Public Enemy Number One

On July 1st, 2009 the new movie, Public Enemies, directed by Michael Mann, was released in Movie Box-offices across the country. Public Enemies is the story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's inexperienced FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis. Dillinger meant business. No one could stop him, no jail could hold him, and because of the public attitude towards the banks that brought the country into the Great Depression, no one had sympathy towards those banks victimized to his robberies. Whats even better is the movie is star-studded, with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, and Billy Crudup.

In this film, filled with action, shooting scenes, and HD Camera angles, you not only get how the public felt about these mobsters, you get other mobsters views on how they viewed Dillinger. The 1920's and 1930's is such an interesting era to look at. Our country and society completely changed from the Roaring, Speakeasy 20's, to the Depressing, Bread Line 30's. Organized crime also began in this era, as the public was against authority and authority was corrupt.

With all this talk of mobsters, robberies, and the 1930's I found myself wondering if a mobster costume would be in the cards for this year's Halloween. It's also such a great idea for a couple's or group costume as the more the merrier is the theme here. While we are talking about decades, also take a clook at our 1920's collection. We have tons of new for 2009 costumes here!

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Couple's Costumes

When you are in a relationship, the obvious answer for costume ideas always seem to be a couple's theme costume. It's a great idea and usually pretty easy to come up with. However, in addition to some of the advantages, there are a couple of not so inviting disadvantages to being associated with your costumes buddy all night.
Advantage: People will look at you and say “OMG, that’s so adorable”
Disadvantage: May be embarrassing to your guy when people look at you and say “OMG, that’s so adorable”.

Advantage: You get to spend the whole night with your costume buddy!
Disadvantage: Sometimes in order for someone to know who you are dressing as, you need both parts of the team.

Advantage: You can easily spot each other in a crowd if you get lost.
Disadvantage: Guilty by association: If your partner does something embarrassing you can’t get away with the “I don’t know him” excuse.

Advantage: You can get pretty creative with couple's costumes. You can go anywhere from Martha and George Washington, to Barbie and Ken, to Bacon and Eggs!
Disadvantage: Might be kind of difficult to reuse your costume the next year, with your...uhh...new boyfriend.

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