The car is the one place the decorations never reach
The porch gets done. The window gets done. Somebody puts a plastic spider on the front door and the house does its bit for the last week of October. Then you get in the car — to drive to the party, to do the school run, to take the kids around the streets — and it is the same grey interior it was in April. The one space everybody actually sits in for the whole of Halloween week is the one space nobody decorates, because decorating a car usually means something stuck to the paintwork or dangling off the mirror where it should not be.
Most car decorations are either a hazard or a nuisance
Anything hanging from the mirror is in the way of the road. Anything adhesive is a conversation with the paint or the glass later. Anything loose becomes a projectile the first time you brake properly, and anything covering a seat back has to come off before an adult can sit there. So the car gets skipped, and the drive to the party — for a lot of families, the bit the kids remember — looks like every other drive of the year.
Two covers that pull on and change the whole interior
These are printed stretch covers, sold as a pair, that pull down over the front seat headrests. They sit high, so what you get in the rear-view mirror is two faces looking back — which is the joke, and it works on everyone in the back seat exactly once, which is enough. Because they cover only the headrests they do not touch the seat belts, the airbag labels on the seat sides, or anywhere a passenger’s back needs to be, and there is nothing hanging, nothing adhesive and nothing loose in the cabin.
They are a universal stretch fit rather than a car-specific part, and each pair weighs about 55 g in total, so the set folds flat into a glovebox or a drawer for eleven months of the year. Six designs to choose from. Machine-washable, and the print is on the outer face — pull them on the right way round the first time and you will not have to think about it again. More things that make the drive better are in our guide to car accessories that fix everyday commute annoyances.
