Yes, I know Halloween isn’t for two more days, but I reckon most of the adults have gotten their Halloween soirees out of the way.
My favorites this year:
[ul][li]Bob Ross and a landscape: A white guy wearing a giant fro wig and standard Bob Ross attire (light blue button up shirt with jeans) with a girl who was covered in painted leaves.[/li][li]Pinata: Dude covered in colorful paper, streamers, and cones accompanied by a girl with a blindfold and toy bat. I really only liked this costume because the pinata boy would throw out Smarties, and I goddamn love Smarties.[/li][li]And disgustingly, Jerry Sandusky: Some dude was wearing a Penn State hoody and had a shower prop attached to him. It was just… so fucking awful. He won the costume award that evening, heh.[/li][/ul]
Went on a costume pub crawl, and there were surprisingly little sexy Tickle Me Elmo or whatever costumes. Everyone got really creative with it. I saw one couple dressed as Beetlejuice and that girl. Good times. What’d you see?
When I was in college, someone threw a costume party where the theme was to come dressed as something dead. Most people went for dead celebrities (Elvis, etc). My friend Danny covered himself in red dots and went as smallpox.
One memorable costume was for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Nice looking young lady wearing a bunch of silver sequins and single horn on her forehead: a bipedal unicorn.
One of my sisters got creative when I was 10; she made a sword & hook out of aluminum foil which combined with a pair of old leather pants and a striped shirt. I went out Trick or Treating as Captain Hook.
I saw someone on Sunday dressed as a book fairy. She used the cover from a huge old dictionary for the wings, and her skirt was made of the pages curled into ruffles.
She was quite the standout (and the winner) in a costume contest against the usual gaggle of duct-tape knights and Party City costumes that still had rectangular creases in them from being in the package.
The Halloween immediately after Christopher Reeve’s accident, I saw a guy dressed as Superman in a wheelchair. I laughed, but “too soon” was the most common response.
The most daring costume is one I didn’t quite get, but was still hilarious. A woman wore a binder that said “ROMNEY” on the binding, above the symbol for woman. That’s all that she wore.
What didn’t you get? Romney said in the second debate, I think, that when he asked, aides brought him “binders full of women” from which he could choose women to fill positions — because, apparently, there was no other way to find these elusive women-things.
I’ve not seen it, but my colleague’s adorable young son (around 6?) is going dressed as a “USB”. I assume he meant a flashdrive, but whatever, it’s just perfect for this kid and most likely his idea. He lives in the general vicinity of Silicon Valley, so it’s probably a good neighborhood fit as well.
This goes back a few years, but one year my best friend dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein. Not for a party, just to answer the door and give out candy to trick-or-treaters. She took half a day off work to go to the hair stylist and get her hair teased and stiffened with hairspray (then she realized she had forgotten to buy the white hair color for the lightning streaks on each side, so she walked through a mall in normal clothes and with hair sticking up and back to reach the Halloween store and get it. Heh). She had bought a wonderful long white dress at a vintage shop. She made up her face to be as pale as possible and wore red lipstick and dark eye makeup. She also bought a smoke machine.
When she saw kids coming up her front way, she’d turn on the smoke machine and get a good thick patch right at the door. Then when they rang, she’d throw open the door and appear in her outfit and hair and makeup through a cloud of swirling fog, stare at the kids through dead eyes, and hiss. I was sitting on her couch, munching away at the bowl of candy, and snickering like a loon.
My best friend takes Halloween very, very seriously.
