--- title: Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes Are Coming description: One company claims it's meant to celebrate the reality star, not make fun of her canonical: https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-24T20:51:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:46.758Z og:title: Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes Are Coming og:description: One company claims its costume celebrates the reality star and is not intended to make fun of her og:url: https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes Are Coming twitter:description: One company claims its costume celebrates the reality star and is not intended to make fun of her twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here Come the Inevitable Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 24, 2015 8:51 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 24, 2015 8:51 PM UTC What’s more surprising, that there are websites selling Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costumes, or the fact that more people didn’t see this coming? [A few ](http://www.wholesalehalloweencostumes.com/adult-costumes/mens-costumes/humorous/CH03128-call-me-caitlyn-unisex-costume.html?CPID=e562a400-cd3e-430a-a858-1d03d0d2b439&code=affiliate&PID=TnL5HPStwNw&siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-9Zw4Xs40zIws9guclzqXRg)[websites](http://www.anytimecostumes.com/halloween-call-me-caitlyn-adult-costume-CH03128.html?code=affiliate&PID=TnL5HPStwNw&siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-HRr6zVi7jSRdmuLyT0nY1Q) are selling an outfit inspired by the former athlete’s _Vanity Fair_ cover, while a major Halloween retailer says it too has a Jenner costume on the way—and that it’s meant to celebrate the reality star and transgender icon, not make fun of her. “Caitlyn Jenner has proven to be the most important real-life superhero of the year,” Trisha Lombardo, a representative for Spirit Halloween, [told the New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/halloween-retailer-creepy-caitlyn-costumes-article-1.2332447). “Spirit Halloween is proud to carry the costume that celebrates her.” Activists, however, say the use of a schlubby male model on various other sites suggests the costume is being marketed as a way to make fun of transgender people, with the “joke” being that Caitlyn Jenner, previously known to the world as Bruce Jenner, is “really” a man despite identifying as otherwise. “To make a costume out of a marginalized identity reduces that person and community to a stereotype for privileged people to abuse,” writes activist Addison Rose Vincent in a [Change.org petition](https://www.change.org/p/dear-spirit-halloween-stop-exploiting-caitlin-jenner-with-a-transphobic-costume?recruiter=2611049&utm%5Fsource=share%5Fpetition&utm%5Fmedium=facebook&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Ffacebook%5Fresponsive&utm%5Fterm=mob-md-no%5Fsrc-custom%5Fmsg) calling for Spirit to do away with plans for a costume. “In this case, if you follow through with production of a Caitlyn Jenner costume, cisgender people will purchase it to make fun of her and our community.” Representatives for Caitlyn Jenner declined to comment to [BuzzFeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/theres-now-a-caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume?bftw&utm%5Fterm=4ldqpfp#.sfJq2LbD) and the _Daily News_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/"},"headline":"Here Come the Inevitable Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes","datePublished":"2015-08-24T20:51:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:46.758Z","description":"One company claims its costume celebrates the reality star and is not intended to make fun of her","url":"https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4008714/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costumes/","name":"Here Come the Inevitable Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes"}}]}] ```