Where to Buy Mental Patient Fancy Dress Costume?

Breaking news: in the UK top supermarkets Asda and Tesco have withdrawn their mental patient fancy dress costumes from sale after a barrage of protests!

After going on sale in the two supermarket chains, these unsavoury costumes drew a massive backlash of protests from the public as well as prominent mental health charities such as Mind.

Where Can I Buy the Mental Patient Fancy Dress Costume?

Since the items were removed from sale at the stores in question, people have been turning to the Internet to find them. The adverse publicity has now made these costumes highly desirable must have for Halloween this year!

You can find the following costumes at these online stores:

While it's not an exact match for the one withdrawn from Asda, there is a strikingly scary Men's Zombie Doctor Costume on sale at Amazon.co.uk. This one includes Shirt with Rotten Chest Attached, Trousers with Rotten Knee, Zombie Mask, Surgical Mask, Cap and Gloves.

You can click the image to the left to get all the information on this costume (UK customers) and the current price, which you will find surprisingly affordable once you open the page after clicking the image and see it for yourself!

For US customers, here is the link to the same costume on sale at Amazon.com:

Fun World Costumes Men's Zombie Doctor

Asda

The Asda outfit included horror clothing, fake blood, a terror mask and a fake meat cleaver. It was priced at just £20.

The description was: "Everyone will be running away from you in fear in this mental patient fancy dress costume. Comprising of a torn blood stained shirt, blood stained plastic meat cleaver and gory facemask it’s a terrifying Halloween option."

In a statement on Wednesday evening, Asda, which is owned by US retail giant Walmart, said the sale had been a "completely unacceptable error. [The costume] should never have been sold and it was withdrawn as soon as it was brought to our attention."

Asda added: "We're deeply sorry one of our fancy dress costumes has upset people."


Apparently the costume in question had been on sale via Asda's clothing outlet George. It was available for two days before it was withdrawn from sale on Wednesday morning after being noticed internally.

Tesco

The Tesco outfit sported an orange boiler suit and offered a fake machete to "complete the look." A Tesco spokesperson has said: "We're really sorry for any offence this has caused and we are removing this product from sale."

The "Psycho Ward Adult Costume" was on sale at Tesco for £18.45 from its online store before being removed from the website.

Concerns

Katie Dalton, of mental health charity Gofal, tweeted: "Dear @asda, how on earth did you come to the conclusion that this is an appropriate fancy dress costume? Disgraceful."

The charity Rethink Mental Illness got onto Twitter to tweet it was "stunned" by the costume's description, but later thanked Asda "for responding" to the "concerns".

There has been so much uproar over these costumes that it is good to see consumer pressure can force major retail outlets like these to do an about turn and remove offending items from sale.