When Bob Mackie was 11 and his uncle asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he didn’t hesitate: a costume designer on Broadway. The Southern California boy had never been to New York, but he was fixated on the “color, excitement and glamour” of the movies and show business.

Next to trick-or-treating for candy, costumes are the best part of Halloween.

It’s a day for playing pranks, donning costumes, carving pumpkins and oh, lots and lots of candy!

Roving grown-ups tossing candy at kids waiting on lawns. Drive-thru Halloween haunts. Yard parties instead of block parties and parades. Wider…