This weekend is Halloween, a holiday which I've really grown to love. My family never celebrated Halloween when I was a kid, what with all it's Druid pagan roots and stuff. And, I understand that - creepy things can happen to little kids on Halloween.
But, as an adult, I love all the parties and costumes and candy corn. Especially the candy corn! No, the parties!! No, the costumes!!!
This year, I'm going as Charlie Brown. I saw the idea online last year, and since I opted to go as cotton candy then, I've been waiting a whole year to debut the easiest costume ever! Seriously, a yellow shirt with a black felt zig-zag and black shorts? Even I can do that, and I completely lack any crafty skills whatsoever.
My brother insists on saying I'm going as "Sexy Brown", since girls always sex-ify their Halloween costumes. Appropriately, I will be wearing high heels instead of Charlie's plain sneakers. That's as sexy as a cartoon character gets.
Throughout the year's, I've seen a lot of creative costumes. Some of them maybe weren't totally original as I've seen them repeated several times since, but they were original to me the first time I saw them, so the wearer gets props, anyway. These costumes include:
- "Smartie Pants." Pants with Smarties candy pinned all over them.
- "God's Gift to Women." A big box with a tag that read - From: God To: Women.
- "Lake Erie" - Blue flowy garments, with leaves stuck in messy hair, glitter eye shadow, a jug of water, and a box of goldfish. This was one of my theater friends. And she was eery - stayed in character the whole time.
- "A dumped girlfriend" - pajamas, a box of Kleenex, a bag of M&M's
- "A Brick House" - this was a store-bought costume, but my friend had a red brick pantsuit, with a red brick roof hat. So, store-bought or not, it was awesome.
- "Marilyn Monroe and Monica Lewinsky" - in college, Mary and I went to a party together. Since she was going as Marilyn, I decided to go as Jackie Kennedy. Except everyone thought I was Monica Lewinsky. So, I went with it. Still a theme - just a little bit different spin on it.
I also talked to a guy today who has 19-month old twins that he and his wife are dressing up as garden gnomes. SO CUTE!
What have been some of your favorite costumes - either of your own or friends? Or are you a Halloween-hater?
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I was disappointed there wasn't a visual portrayal of what it means to go as Cotton Candy.
Sexy Brown is better than Slutty Brown. I think.
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