Halloween: "You're Going As?"

[carl1951]

Yes, Boos and Ghouls, it's that time of year.
Later, Carl

[verorl]

I still don't know yet if we will be doing anything or not. Of course my son will be Spiderman and my daughter has a Princess dress that I'm thinking she could wear again.

I remember a Halloween lots of years ago, when I went dressed as a punk. I teased my hair into a mohawk and painted it blue.

[Eyphur]

I haven't dressed up for about 10 years but if I did I would make sure my costume fit over my snowsuit. Sometimes Halloween is pretty cold here.


Here I am, Halloween 1983.

[jillaw]

I never need to dress up, because I'm a bit of a freak in my regular life.

[shmeep]

jillaw said:

I never need to dress up, because I'm a bit of a freak in my regular life.

Yeah, this is true. I must point out that Jillaw once dressed up as a sick housewife for Halloween. Another time she was a Libertarian and her costume consisted of a sign that read, "Down with Government!" I still have a photo of her holding that up while standing between a flower child and a soldier.

I tried to be a toothbrush one year. Painted myself white and tried to Aqua net my hair into bristles out the side of my head, but nobody got it.

Now, I'm going to show you something embarrassing...and I don't generally put photos of myself (past toddlerhood) on this board so you'd better appreciate it.



I'm the one in the middle. Just kidding!

Yep. In my defense, this was at least ten years ago and the Starfleet shirt was really designed for a Captain Kirk type and not a woman, but that's me. My brother was, not Death, but rather Sickness (which I thought was one of the coolest Halloween costumes ever--he went around all night threatening to spread various ailments--some of which are not generally spread through--ahem--normal contact), and then my friend was a shark attack victim, complete with shark still attached to the bottom of her real-life severed thigh (what a sick sense of humor that girl had! I wish I had a shot of her wounded Viet Nam vet costume, complete with bloody bandaged stump--amputees have so many cool options for Halloween).

But this year? I don't really do Halloween anymore.

[verorl]

Cool costumes Smeep!

[awlrite4now]

I don't dress up for Halloween, but I was at a quilt show on Halloween and wore one of my Daredevil shirts and my DD ballcap, backwards. I was a comic geek.

I once made my 6 year old nephew a funny costume. Got him a red sweatsuit and did wavy lines around the ankles and shoulders. Vertically sideways on the front of the shirt, I wrote "Red". Made him a cone-shaped red hat. He was a crayon. He stopped at one house, and the mom there didn't get it, so she asked him what he was supposed to be. He leaned over and rubbed his hat on her and said "Color color color". Unscripted!

The funniest thing to happen to me was when I lived in Iowa, and spent my first Halloween there. It was rather cold, and I took a kitchen stool out front with me to sit while I handed out treats. It was a lot of fun, and one group was getting their goodies, and as I put the candy in this probably 8 year old's bag, she said to me, "Are you from Arkansas?" I said, "No, why?" (This was before I ever lived in Arkansas; I am from Texas.) She deadpanned, "You sound just like President Clinton."

I almost fell off the stool laughing at her. It was great.

[kytdunne]

awlrite4now said:

I once made my 6 year old nephew a funny costume. Got him a red sweatsuit and did wavy lines around the ankles and shoulders. Vertically sideways on the front of the shirt, I wrote "Red". Made him a cone-shaped red hat. He was a crayon. He stopped at one house, and the mom there didn't get it, so she asked him what he was supposed to be. He leaned over and rubbed his hat on her and said "Color color color". Unscripted!

Color color color.

Too funny!

Kyt

[doobrah]

admin said:

the Starfleet shirt was really designed for a Captain Kirk type and not a woman, but that's me.

So with the hairdo, I'm guessing you're supposed to be Nurse Chapel, who had an unrequited crush on Mr. Spock?

[shmeep]

doobrah said:

admin said:

the Starfleet shirt was really designed for a Captain Kirk type and not a woman, but that's me.

So with the hairdo, I'm guessing you're supposed to be Nurse Chapel, who had an unrequited crush on Mr. Spock?

Well, I didn't really have the Nurse Chapel look down--except for, perhaps, the disturbingly pointy boobs that seem to have thrown Bones into some kind or altered state



but I may have had a bit of Yeoman Rand happening--only I couldn't basket weave my hair into that kind of art.



I think I just wanted to be a random Starfleet Officer.

[jillaw]

I think shmeep has had some pretty good costumes. Her Star Trek one was probably one of her less creative ones.

She did in fact dress as a toothbrush, which ideally was very clever. She was also one a blind beggar- and what made that costume REALLY great was that she had a full leg cast at the time, and a stick from her front yard.

But I think my favorite was just a few years ago when she was Sonny Bono, with the mustache, and The Boy refused to kiss her.

[housemouse]

jillaw said:

I never need to dress up, because I'm a bit of a freak in my regular life.

I knew you and I were a kindred spirits.

[shmeep]

jillaw said:

I think shmeep has had some pretty good costumes. Her Star Trek one was probably one of her less creative ones.

She did in fact dress as a toothbrush, which ideally was very clever. She was also one a blind beggar- and what made that costume REALLY great was that she had a full leg cast at the time, and a stick from her front yard.

But I think my favorite was just a few years ago when she was Sonny Bono, with the mustache, and The Boy refused to kiss her.

I like how you said that the toothbrush costume was ideally very clever. Yep. Not very successful, was it? Which one of us tried to be a wadded up tissue for Halloween? The beggar costume was when I was fifteen and it was inspired by the full leg cast. I didn't usually go for the pretty. Um...the Sonny Bono costume (sad because there wasn't even a Cher!)...was I trying to look like him or was that unintentional? I don't recall, but I did creep out The Boy. He wasn't into the mustache for some reason.

[jillaw]

admin said:

jillaw said:

I like how you said that the toothbrush costume was ideally very clever. Yep. Not very successful, was it? Which one of us tried to be a wadded up tissue for Halloween? The beggar costume was when I was fifteen and it was inspired by the full leg cast. I didn't usually go for the pretty. Um...the Sonny Bono costume (sad because there wasn't even a Cher!)...was I trying to look like him or was that unintentional? I don't recall, but I did creep out The Boy. He wasn't into the mustache for some reason.

I forgot about the wadded up tissue thing. That didn't work too well, either. Where did we come up with this stuff??

I think you purchased a Sonny Bono wig (and trimmed the bangs, if I recall), but were not actually intending to be him. But you still looked like him.

For such a pretty woman, shmeep makes a really good guy when she dressed like one.

[shmeep]

jillaw said:

I think you purchased a Sonny Bono wig (and trimmed the bangs, if I recall), but were not actually intending to be him. But you still looked like him.

Thanks for the clarification. All I know is that photos from that night are...I can only describe them as being disturbing.

jillaw said:

For such a pretty woman, shmeep makes a really good guy when she dressed like one.

Thanks?

And Jillaw...remember that guy you used to date (after setting me up with him and then realizing you wanted him for yourself--he had no say of course) who used to go as "comfortable" every Halloween? And then there's my brother who wore a suit and horn-rimmed glasses with a Soviet flag hung like a cape. "Soviet Boy."