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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

A cloak, some monsters and a bicycle: Marguerite O’Molloy’s best phone picture

A black and white photograph of Halloween figures wearing scary masks in a shop window overlaid with reflections of a bicycle and a passerby wearing a black cloak
Costume in Costume, 2024, shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max. Photograph: Marguerite O'Molloy

Costume is a small boutique in Dublin’s city centre, usually fronted with elegant window displays of beautifully dressed mannequins. Last October, however, Marguerite O’Molloy was passing on her way for a manicure and found something startlingly different.

“The shop is on Castle Market, a pedestrian shopping area,” O’Molloy says. “It’s a really lively, cool area and a regular haunt of mine; I actually met my husband in the famous Grogan’s Castle Lounge pub on the opposite corner. That afternoon, I didn’t expect to see this Halloween-themed display. I thought it was hilarious.”

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