I just read a post in which Dawn showed her children's Halloween costumes, and I thought her daughter's candy corn costume was adorable. It got me to thinking about some of my own favorite costumes, and I thought it would be fun to do a blog meme about them.
I'm going to describe three of my favorite all-time costumes. If you would like to do the same, just leave a comment telling me and I'll come read about yours.
My favorite costume as a child was when I dressed as Wee Willie Winkie:
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
Tapping at the window and crying through the lock,
Are all the children in their beds, it's past eight o'clock?
I wore a nightshirt, a stocking cap, and carried a candle as we went trick or treating. None of the neighbors knew who I was supposed to be, but I still enjoyed it.
One Halloween when I was single, my room-mate and I gave a party, and we told our guests they had to come as something from the Bible. I dressed as a rainbow: red socks, purple tights, blue shorts, yellow top, rainbow striped clown wig, and rainbow stripes painted on my face by a friend. (My roommate Joyce went as a burnt sacrifice. She was all in black with soot on her face and a belt of sticks with construction paper flames.)
Another year, the same roommate and I were asked to a Halloween party given by one of my coworkers. We went as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Joyce was six inches taller than me and probably 30 pounds heavier, but she had a Southern-belle-style bridesmade dress. So she wore that and I wore a brocade vest and blue suit coat I borrowed from my brother, and died my hair dark and painted on a Clark Gable mustache. My co-workers didn't even recognize and thought I was a very short man. (I'm not quite 5' 2").
I've always enjoyed costume parties. :-)
9 comments:
What cute ideas! I love the burnt sacrifice idea, now that's original! I wish you had pictures!
:0) Sharon
A fun post Ruth! As a kid I always wanted to be a princess with long flowing robes. I'm sure my four siblings and I looked like ragamuffins; we were too poor to buy real costumes and my mom was not about to sew costumes for five kids that they'd never wear again (waste of money) so we made do with whatever we could find. But we had fun.
Wee Willie Winkie was an inspired idea!
My favorite was a Southern Belle -- a gown of my mom's with real live hoop skirts! I won a contest with it.
Friends of ours gave a party and dressed as the Man from Glad and she, a great, big trash bag!
Those all sound like such fun costumes/memories. :) I think my favorite costume might have been my princess costume, when I was five. I remember the dress got very heavy because it got soaked with rain, but I loved it.
My favorite costume was one worn by a friend when we were both in graduate school
She wore a priest's black shirt and clerical collar, and then wore camouflage pants and jacket, a flak helmet, and carried a toy machine gun. She was a Liberation Theologian.
(She was in Divinity School and I was working on my Ph.D. in political science. We were geeks--what can I say? ;-)
Cheers,
Doxy
This was cute. Esp. the rainbow outfit. All I could think of was Roy G. Biv, which was how I taught my kids the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet - I can still do it!) I decided this would be fun, so I'll do a post, too!
I am not sure why a "burnt sacrifice" cracked me up but I thought it was hilarious! I will probably post a few "Halloween" things this week myself :)
Wee Willie Winkie is a great costume idea! When I worked at the agency Halloween was HUGE. There was no work. We spent the morning decorating and then had an open house. Our clients would stop by to see costumes and party a little. I would spend months making my costumes. I think my favorite was the African witch doctor. My favorite childhood costume was a cheetah suit. It had a little fitted hood with ears and a flannel one piece suit for the body that felt like wearing pajamas. Plus I loved having whiskers painted on my face.
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