Blonde mop, fixed gaze, early eighties golden “aviator glass” glasses and orange overalls: raise your hand if you didn't recognize in the description the dress and the person of the most talked about serial killer of recent times, Jeffrey Dhamer.
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Jeffrey Dahmer portrayed by Evan Thomas Peter in the Netflix series
It doesn't matter that the temperatures are higher than normal: Halloween is upon us and the race for the scariest costume has already begun for days.
The driving force, above all, is the costume of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, in the wake of the successful television series broadcast on Netflix.
But like any self-respecting mass phenomenon, there is controversy from the family members of those who were the victims of the Milwakee monster.
Doubtful taste or not, the Dahmer costume likes it.
To the point that eBay, on the other hand, had to ban advertisements for the sale of glasses, wig and orange jumpsuit.
Reminding advertisers that the platform in its guidelines speaks clearly: it prohibits the trade of "
objects closely associated with violent criminals, their acts or crime scenes of the last hundred years
".
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Jeffrey Dahmer
Unlike eBay, nothing stops another big online giant, Amazon.
If you type "Dahmer" the results give books and DVDs about the serial killer, not the costumes, that's true.
But just use targeted search keywords such as "Dahmer orange jumpsuit" or "Dahmer glasses" that immediately appears a rich selection of products that, unequivocally, recreate the costume in all respects.
Little attention, perhaps as reported in a recent interview with The Guardian by Shirley Hughes, mother of victim Tony Hughes: "I don't see how they can use our names and put things like that out there."
But everything is quantifiable, everything is trendy and Halloween confirms its vocation to play, to exorcise them, with the most gruesome fears and facts that have also happened in reality.