Halloween costume memories

[orangerful]

As heiland_coo and I sat at the info desk today, her in a wedding dress, my with cat ears and a tail, we started to reminisce about costumes we wore as kids. And, sadly, we couldn't remember very many!!! But, here is what I do remember:

A mermaid - my mom sewed together a tail for me out of a sparkley blue material. She had a stuffed toy lobster and she tied him to one of my roller skates so I could drag her around with me.

A Bunny - gray sweatpants and sweatshirt with homemade bunny ears and a nose.

Harriet Potter - this was actually a few years back, I did crazy pigtails, the big black glasses, a wand, and my old marching band dress.

Supergirl - classic Supergirl pajamas with the velcro cape.

I can't remember anymore! It's so sad! You'd think I could retain that information.

So, what about you? What crazy creatures did you dress up as for Halloweens gone by?

Comments

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin and clown were before I was old enough to have much of a say. I think the first one I got to choose was penguin. Then I pretty much ran through the classics: black cat, devil, cowgirl.
Mom made all my costumes for me, and it was pretty much always the zip-up jumpsuit thing you get out of the Simplicity pattern book. One year I was Mortica Addams, but Mom wouldn't make the dress fit me the way hers did (a wise choice most likely, considering my age at the time) so everyone thought I was just another witch. I think her crowning achivement was the year I out of nowhere declared my interest in being the Creature From the Black Lagoon. She bought a matching set of dark green sweats, then took the seams in the arms apart to sew in dirty gold-colored fringe as seaweed, along with making fabric "webbed feet" to velcro on over my shoes, a finned monster head, sewing webs between the fingers of some gloves, and painting my face so it looked like scales.

The last year I went I was in junior high with my BFF. We were the Mad Hatter and the March Hare :)

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

I think I've mentioned this, but my most vivid costume memory was the big Star Wars year. I went with my friends- one was Luke (she had a page-boy haircut anyway), one Leia (perfect cinnamon bun hair!), one a jawa (with real LED eyes under her hood which her dad had made for her- this was VERY impressive back in the day), and one had a sad attempt at Darth Vader which more than anything highlighted the fact that her parents were not so involved in her life (although come to think of it, with her blackened face and sheet/cloak, she looks a lot like Anakin from the third movie in the picture I have). And I was a sandperson.. milk jug, toilet paper tubes, masking tape, two stick-like things, a small piece of cardboard, and a sheet- and it came out pretty well. Someday I will scan the picture for you.

I also remember going once as the grossest monster I could come up with. I had an eye patch with an eyeball hanging out of it by a rubber band, with blood around my eye. I forget some of the other touches- I'm sure cheapy fangs must have figured in there somewhere. My poor mom.. I never, ever wanted to be a princess or anything like that. Instead she gets gross-out daughter!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Again, why does my memory suck so much? haha. 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' - now that's a classic you don't see very often anymore! And the Mad Hatter & March Hare combo sounds adorable, though at the same time, a bit scary hehe.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I'm sure every mom secretly wishes for the gross-out daughter. I know I would. ;) Costumes are probably cheaper than the Disney copyrighted gowns I see some of these little girls wearing!

And, yes, find that picture and scan it! Or at least have it ready for the next time I visit!

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

yeah, my mom was a tom-boy herself and even a bit of a rebel in her own way (although in other ways very much a Hermione!). So I'm sure she understood. But for some reason until I had a say, I was dressed in dresses, and girly things were done to my hair! (note that I refer to her in the past tense only because I'm talking about the past. She is in fact alive.)

One thing that may have put a stop to the dress thing was that I hated when people tried to put them on me. The part where the dress was part-way on, but my neck wasn't out of the neck hole and my arms were up in the air freaked me out- I was sure they wouldn't get my head out in time and I would die of suffocation- so I would *scream* every time. Yes, I was a lovely child.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

that's also why I will never go shopping with you ;-)

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

haha- I'd say I was over it, but come to think of it, dresses still kind of freak me out. Now it's more the part where you have the zipper as far down as you can get it by reaching over your shoulder, but you still can't grasp it by reaching up behind your back. You know what I'm talking about, right? I've had a number of scares in dressing rooms thinking I'd end up stuck in whatver I was trying on. And the same thing happened with that Trelawney dress- here I am, 3:00am, so I can't even knock on a neighbor's door, and I can't get the dress unzipped. And I so needed it off at that point. I think I would have taken a scissors to it before I slept in it! But fortunately I finally got it unzipped... Ok, enough dress trauma!