Friday Geezer/Geezerette thread.

[trof]

Do you have a particularly memorable Halloween?
Either your own or your kid(s)?

Mine is when my daughter was 4. Miz t. made her an angel costume. White gown with a gold sash. Gold Christmas tinsel garland halo on a coat hangar frame. I was at the dining room table making a pair of wings out of cardboard. They would be painted gold and sprinkled with glitter.

Leigh came in. "What are you making, Daddy?"
"Wings for your costume, shug. When you put them on tonight you'll be able to fly all over the place."
Her lower lip started to quiver and a tear rolled down her cheek.
"Honey, what's the matter?"
"Daddy, I don't know HOW to fly. I don't WANT to. I'm scared."
Aw jeez.
"Shug, daddy was just kidding. You won't fly. These are just fake wings. Honest."
Boy, you have to careful about kidding with children.

[rjbcar27]

1. Ahh, bless.

cute story trof.

[trof]

7. You should have seen the angel.

I gotta get a scanner.

[Sinistrous]

2. The year of the alien.

I remember making a full body "ET" costume for my older son. Chicken wire, paper mache, brown spray paint, and full artwork on the face. (My son's head was at ET's shoulders, ET's head above) Turned out to be an amazing costume. Navigating steps during trick or treat was a bear, but my son absolutely loved the get-up.

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. oh i remember one year

my girlfriend dressed up like sailor moon and we did furi kuri

[trof]

5. I seem to remember wearing costumes

where my forward visibility was about nil. The eye holes never seemed to be in the right place.

Just now I can remember the smell of damp glue or sizing they used on the old stiff cloth masks. You could smell it after you'd breathed in the mask for a while.

[grannylib]

4. My daughter went as a stove once

It was really clever...she took a large box and made it look like a stove/oven, with a door that opened (that is how she grabbed candy *lol*) and on one of the "burners" she had fashioned a frying pan out of tin foil, and her head came up through that, so it looked like a head in a frying pan on a stove. She had little tissue paper flames coming out and all...
Very creative :-)

[trof]

8. that IS clever

One of the funniest was a friend of my daughter's in his late teens.
He moussed his hair and combed it straight out from his head in all directions. Burned some holes in an old shirt and pair of overalls. Put black circles under his eyes (cadaver?) and soot marks on his face, neck and arms. Came with one hand jammed in a scorched sooty toaster with the cord half burned off.

[regularguy]

6. When I was in my early thirties I met a girl at a halloween party,

I was the grim reaper and she was a fifties housewife. We danced alot. Then I kissed her up against a chain link fence in South Philly. We've been married now for 8 years and have two kids, 7 and 1.

[Philostopher]

9. My younger brother is a genius with costumes.

He always has been. When he was ten or eleven, he built a costume for himself out of a good-sized box (don't remember what was in it) that resembled one of the Wacky Package product-parody stickers. It was a parody of laundry soap, and he went all out -- we teased him because he actually was willing to put on a pair of white tights for that one! He'd gotten the idea, I think, from the dancing cigarette boxes (Winchseter? Lucky Strike?) on one of the old variety shows.

One year, back in the '80s, he bought a big tube of fake blood and a 'moulage' makeup kit, faked some bruises on his head, tore up a sweat shirt and a pair of jeans, dusted himself with dirt and carried a piece of a broken cinder-block over one arm -- he was an earthquake survivor.

A couple of years ago, he was starting to lose his hair and was so disgusted with the way it looked, he shaved it off for about a year. This coincided with the beginning of his stint as a junior high school math teacher. The school's colors are red and white, they use a cardinal as their mascot -- so he painted his entire head, and his hands from the elbows down, red; wore white pants and a white shirt. When asked, he told the students he was the physical embodiment of school spirit. I think the concept was a little beyond many of them, but they loved the fact he'd painted his entire head red, and there are many pictures floating around Mom's house of the costume!