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Yeah, that's right: 1978.   If anyone wishes to criticize the amateurishness of this costume, please feel free to do so -- but first post photos of the Storntrooper outfit YOU made in 1978.  

I ended up selling this costume for $100 before the end of the year.  I missed it so much that I made another one the following summer (in time for Hallowe'en 1979), which I wore to the movie theater in 1980 the first time I went to see "Empire."  I was incredibly self-conscious about wearing the costume to the theater (and I went by myself - bad idea), that I kept my head low and snuck to the front to keep people from turning around and looking at me.  After I sat down, a few shouts started in the crowded theater, which became a cheer asking me to stand up.  I put the "helmet" back on, stood up, turned around, and the whole audience applauded my efforts!  What a great way to start to watch what turned out to be the greatest movie ever made to that date!  I ended up selling that costume for another $100 within a couple months of the movie's release.