Favorite Halloween Costume...

[Etienne]

CWeatherby got me thinking after reading one of her posts in the Powder Room referring to Halloween costumes. What was your favorite costume when you were a kid? I guess mine was from the year I went as a gypsy--colorful tiered skirt, bright hip sash, off the shoulder white top, sandals, lots of make-up, hoop earrings and jangling jewelry! (And, of course, a BIG trick-or-treat satchel!) And yours...?

 

[Irena]

When I was four or five, my mom (who hates to sew) made me a beautiful indian costume from old burlap sacks. She also made a headband complete with feathers and I had little moccasins. I wore that costume (minus the moccasins) for several Halloweens after that. I wish I still had it.

Irena

 

[Irena]

Did nobody here dress up for Halloween as a child? Amazing, isn't it.

 

[Viola]

My costumes were almost always slammed together at 3:00 pm the day of Halloween, without much help from mom, featuring me shrieking, "I don't have a costume!"

So lots of witches, pirate girls, clowns, a gypsy once but that ended badly. I did my baby brother as a GI Joe - he wore my combat boots and I used my hideous black lipstick under his eyes. Which is, if you think about it, the only appropriate use of black lipstick! lol

Definitely only a couple store-bought things ever. I felt slightly bad for the kids in head-to-toe bought stuff - I was envious of some of the fancy masks and faery wings though.

 

[The Reno Kid]

My grandmother did my best costumes.

I grew up in a very small town (pop 914) and there was always a big Halloween bash in the school gym. One of the events was of course, the costume contest. My grandmother would put my costumes together using mostly everyday items. I won the contest in three consecutive years.

One year, I started with a rubber "hag" mask. To this she added a black wig with twin braids, a set of my dad's longjohns stuffed with as many pillows as we could get in there. Add a set of Army combat boots and a small amount of judiciously applied makeup and I looked a bit like a "blue meanie" from Yellow Submarine after a bender. It sounds pretty vanilla in print, but the look was priceless.

As the evening wore on, we would drift out of the party to go trick-or-treating. If you hit most of the houses in town, you could just about fill a pillowcase with candy. Of course, in those days it would not have occurred to us (or to our parents) to be accompanied by an adult.

 

[The Wolf]

all right i'll tell you

I usually wore a different costume each year.
One time I wanted to be Dracula because I loved all the Universal horror movies. My mom looked at the pictures of Bela and realised I needed a vest, boots (?), a gold medallion on a ribbon, a cape, white face, widow's peak and plastic vampire teeth. Every kid used to have those glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth. She made a cape with a big black button and a shoe lace to tie it closed. She painted on the white make-up and black widow's peak. Gave me a plaid vest. The piece de resistance was the star that she cut out of a gold foiled cardboard box.
The first house I visited, the man said who are you Marshall Dillon?.lol

When I became a teenager Clark Kent was my go-to costume. I have since been Connor MacLeod which noone recognises. Surprisingly some people have recognised my Hudson Hawk costume.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

When I was ten I had just moved to a new neighborhood, and being that I went to private school in a different town, I didn't really know anyone in my new place. So, for trick or treating it was my dad and me. I was not used to this, because the neighborhood I had previously lived in was full of children.. There was a good side to this, all my new neighbors had tons of candy and too few children to give too, so my pillowcase was quite full from that evening.
I not only remember this night because of all the loot I got, and the time I got to spend with my dad, just me and him without my older sister, but also because of my costume. My mom hand made me a Raggedy Ann costume. It was complete with white eyelet bloomers and apron, and she dyed a mop head cherry red, and sewed a hair net into it so it fit perfectly. I don't recall if I really wanted to be this character, but I remember my mom working so hard sewing all the pieces of the outfit together. It was completed with big brown freckles made of eyeliner and bright red lips. As far as I can recall, it was quite the perfect get up. I also think it was the last time my mom sewed me anything. Now that I look back on it, I realize how sweet it was of her to work so hard on something I would only wear for a few hours. Especially now, with all of the Halloween superstores that carry insanely expensive costumes. I hope that when I have kids, I'll have the talent and patience that my mom did to make a costume that rivals any over priced piece of cloth. I see now that the best thing about Halloween for a kid isn't just the candy, but the thought and care that a mom gives to her child in the form of a homemade costume.

On another note, a few years ago I was O-Ren Ishii. Lucy Lu's character from Kill Bill Vol. 1. I must admit, it was a lot of fun carrying all of those swords! I think it was a great costume, because everyone at the party I was at knew who I was trying to be. It's definitely a costume I would do again, if I hadn't spent all Halloween's since dressing in vintage.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I dressed up as a Rene Magritte painting once. I wore a black suit and a bowler hat. I attached an apple to the front of my face. Folks in the know saw me and shouted, "Magritte!"

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[Baron Kurtz]

I dressed up as a Rene Magritte painting once. I wore a black suit and a bowler hat. I attached an apple to the front of my face. Folks in the know saw me and shouted, "Magritte!"

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You Cultred Devil, you.

You were, i assume, not a child when you did this. All the other parents wondered what Mr. and Mrs Chevalier were putting in the water ...

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I's cultred, I is!

 

[BellyTank]

Did you not also have a small sign, which read:

"ce n'est pas magritte" ?

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