Comments on: Costumery

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:37:01 +0000

Roe v Wade – absolutely brilliant! I hope you were both named editors of the Law Review on the strength of your costumes alone.

By: marybrettw

marybrettw — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:09:58 +0000

My husband and I were once invited to a Halloween party thrown by a bunch of law school students. Requirement was to come as a legal case. Being business school students, we didn’t have a lot of material to draw on. We ended up going as fisherman versions of Roe v. Wade … I was “Roe” with a canoe paddle; he was “Wade” wearing his fishing wader hip boots.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:29:25 +0000

Ah yes, I Heard it Through the Grapevine! An enduring campaign for the California Raisin Commission. What did your sister stuff in the bag to create the necessary lumps?

By: LauraC

LauraC — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:32:48 +0000

My older sister had the BEST costumes growing up. Me, not so much. One of her best was when she dressed as a California Raisin….garbage bag, big sunglasses and brown tights. I think I was a clown that year…lame-o.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:36:37 +0000

Bag of leaves – great last minute idea. The materials are all right at hand!
I think Emily should put up pix of her husband in drag, I’ll look for the Ian-as-Thomas shot, and thanks Anne for mentioning Hugh as The Donald. Glad it made an impression on you!

By: M0therAdm1n

M0therAdm1n — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:20:51 +0000

I am notoriously bad at costumes for the kiddos — and their inspiration to be original is terribly lacking. The year Dave went to the WES Halloween parade as Dr. Milgrim (always well dressed, beloved blond principal) clad in my pencil skirt, blouse, pearls, and blond wig — along with a day’s worth of razor stubble — was one of my favorites. Im a sucker for men in drag.

By: Anne H.

Anne H. — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:13:22 +0000

Another of my favorites was one of your boys, in elementary school no less!! Puffy hair, navy blue blazer, lapel button reading “You’re Fired!”: Donald Trump. very clever.

By: lindacopy

lindacopy — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:12:36 +0000

Ha! On that last one, I thought you were going to say that the h.s. girls responded, “Our mothers!”
Please post the photo of 3-yr-old Ian as Thomas the Tank Engine if you can scare it up! (Note the Halloween lingo there.)

By: MomKat

MomKat — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:11:08 +0000

My son David, in a last minute fit of inspiration, went trick or treating as a pile of leaves. He took a black trash bag, cut holes for his head and arms, slathered the bag with lots of glue, and pressed the dry leaves littering the lawn all over, waited till the glue dried, grabbed a rake and left, trailing small bits of escapee leaves.