Halloween Costumes
My top 5 Halloween costumes of all time:
1) The Pillsbury Dough Boy. I wore a white sweatsuit, a chef's hat with the signature blue dot in front, and carried a wooden spoon. If you pressed my belly I said "tee hee!" Everyone thought I was a ghost. WHY WOULD A GHOST WEAR A CHEF'S HAT, PEOPLE?!
2) Clothesline. In seventh grade my friend Shannon and I went as a clothesline - we stuck leaves all over ourselves to make ourselves into trees, and tied a rope between us and hung clothes from it. Of course as soon as we got to school we had to take it apart since we were in different classes. But I think we won an award of some sort.
3) Mary from "There's Something About Mary." I used gel to make my bangs stick up straight. Hilarious.
4) Insolent record store clerk. I wore a homemade button that said "I heard them first." (This wins in the "minimalist" category.)
5) Miss Piggy. I wore my mom's huge white coat that looked like a fur but was really made of string, and pig ears, and probably something made of rhinestones.
It was a stretch to come up with these 5 because generally, growing up, my costumes weren't all that exciting. I didn't have one of those "let me make you a Halloween costume, darling" moms - instead, we'd scrounge through her closet the night before and make something up. One year I wore my dad's flannel shirt and took some hay from our dog's outside dog house and called myself a scarecrow. It worked.
What are some of the best costumes you've worn, or seen on someone else? Was Halloween a big deal in your house growing up? Do tell.
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posted by Amanda @ 8:48 AM
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I was an outhouse for Halloween when I was 10. My mom and I painted a refrigerator box to look like wood, made a roof (somehow), cut a quarter moon for me to see through, and holes for arms.
Somehow, I lost the costume competition for a kid wearing a fake head on his shoulder (he was the two headed man! how flippin creative). I'm still bitter.
When I was 6 my mother made me a loaf of Wonderbread. It was made from a pillowcase. Classic.
Ok, these both rock. I remembered I was also Buffy the Vampire Slayer once - that was pretty cool. I wore a platinum blond wig and carried a stick.
i've never had great costumes per se, but my favorite was from 1998. i dyed my hair red, i put some stubble make up on Matt (then clean-shaven). we both wore blue suits and he made FBI badges for us. we were Mulder and Scully. we spent the night sober-faced. he'd refuse to kiss me no matter how much tension built up, and we talked to each other on cell phones though we were walking shoulder to shoulder, etc. the best part was, we were participating in a halloween candy handout at a shopping mall in Fort Worth, so people actually thought we were FBI agents. "did some kid go missing?" they'd ask.
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