Top Girls Halloween Costume 2015: Princess Leia Costume by Rubie’s

Summary: Amazon's top girls Halloween costume 2015 is the Deluxe Star Wars Princess Leia Costume offered by Halloween costume giant, Rubie's Costume Company.

Princess Leia Organa in iconic white outfit: 1darthvader, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via DeviantArt

Online retail giant Amazon makes hourly updates to Amazon Best Sellers, a sales-based listing of most popular products.

Best Seller listings are helpful in spotting trends for those who want to be part of the in crowd and in providing a starting point for narrowing or widening shopping expeditions.

As of Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, top girls Halloween costume 2015 on Amazon is the Deluxe Star Wars Princess Leia Costume by Rubie’s Costume Company. The Star Wars costume has received 4 out of 5 stars from 159 customer reviews. Forty-one percent of reviewers have given the top ranking of five stars to the Star Wars costume.

The costume is an officially licensed Star Wars costume. The ensemble includes Princess Leia’s signature long-sleeved, white robe as well as a printed belt and a wig with side buns. The fun costume is available in three sizes for girls: small, medium and large.

Rubie’s Costume Company was originally launched by Rubin “Rubie” and Tillie Kramer Beige as Rubie’s Candy Store in 1951. Based in Woodhaven, a working-class neighborhood in New York City’s easternmost borough of Queens, the candy shop sold an array of goods, from cigarettes and newspapers to ice cream and soft drinks. Seasonal merchandise included holiday knickknacks, especially plastic masks.

Success in holiday sales motivated a move in 1959 to a nearby, larger location for specialization in joke items and holiday merchandise. A new name, Rubie’s Fun House, reflected the new shop’s specialties.

After Rubin Beige’s death in October 1972, 23-year-old Marc, oldest of the Beiges’ four children, stepped up as president to join Tillie in continuing the family business. Marc recently had graduated from Queens College, a senior college of The City University of New York, with a degree in Math Education. Marc’s membership in college societies prepared him for helming his family’s business: Halloween Industry Association, National Costumes Association and Toy Manufacturers Association.

Renaming the business as Rubie’s Costume Company, Marc focused on building a costume line to tap into the massive demand for attractive replica costumes sweeping the United States in preparation for the bicentennial celebrations and parties slated for 1976.

In 1973, Rubie’s Costume Company expanded its product lines to include full-length Halloween costumes.

Marc's successful growth strategy includes acquiring lucrative licenses for costumes based upon comic book and movie characters.

Rubie’s Costume Company thrives in the 21st century as the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of Halloween costumes and accessories.

The evergreen popularity of the Star Wars film series is being given a huge boost with the upcoming release of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens on Dec. 16, 2015, in Europe and Dec. 18, 2015, in North America.

The release of Episode VII occurs more than a decade after the release of the last live-action Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith, on May 15, 2005 in Cannes and on May 19, 2005 in North America.

The Force Awakens features the trio of Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), who so compellingly enchanted moviegoers in the Star Wars saga’s first release, Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, in 1977.

Princess Leia’s classic style of flowing, long-sleeve white robe, cinched at the waist with a belt, and her winsomely distinctive hairstyle continue to fascinate all ages worldwide.

A little girl’s wish of being a princess comes true on Halloween.

Many Princess Leias will happily hope for good treats, not bad tricks, for Halloween 2015.

Perhaps some may enjoy accessorizing their Princess Leia costume with a Luke Skywalker Lightsaber, Amazon’s #1 Best Seller in Kids’ and Babies’ Costumes, to honor Leia’s driven resourcefulness and courageous self-sufficiency as a warrior princess.

Two Princess Leias and one Darth Vader at WonderCon 2012, Anaheim, California: The Conmunity -- Pop Culture Geek (Doug Kline), CC BY NC 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Princess Leia Organa in iconic white outfit: 1darthvader, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via DeviantArt @ http://1darthvader.deviantart.com/art/Princess-Leia-Organa-96001669

Two Princess Leias and one Darth Vader at WonderCon 2012, Anaheim, California: The Conmunity -- Pop Culture Geek (Doug Kline), CC BY NC 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/popculturegeek/7019458805/