Going Bananas for Halloween – Costume Wars

Are you a Halloweenie? If you are, you value all things Halloween on this spooky day filled with tricks, treats, and... you guessed it – costumes. The National Retail Federation estimates that Americans will spend over $9 billion this year, with about $3.4 billion attributable to costumes. Costumes are big business.

The banana costume is at the center of a short-lived lawsuit filed in New Jersey federal court by Silvertop Associates DBA Rasta Imposta, against Kmart and its parent company Sears. The case is Silvertop Associates Inc d/b/a Rasta Imposta v Kmart Corp et al, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Case No. 17-07499. It was filed on September 27 but then voluntarily dismissed by Rasta Imposta just a few weeks later. The judge entered the dismissal order on October 17, 2017, after the parties settled. While we won't get to battle for top banana, the allegations are interesting.