When was the last time you went out in costume on Halloween?

[terrya]

Me?

I wouldn't call it going out "in costume", but when I was living in Dallas, Tx in 1984, a drag queen friend of mine convinced me to do drag Halloween night. He picked out an outfit for me, did my makeup and got a wig for me. The results were horrendous to the extreme. Luckily, no pictures survive, :scared:. I admire the real drag queens...they are professionals. :-)

[Beer Snob-50]

1. 1988.

a gorilla mask and a cute little sundress!! btw, i looked real hott!!

[BarenakedLady]

2. 1988

In College. I was a sexy vampire.

[MissMillie]

3. 2003

I went as the Ghost of the Fourth Amendment

[MorningGlow]

4. Hmmm well, it's not really a "costume"

But as a witch, I "dress" for the holiday most every year. I missed getting gussied up last year because my toddler son was trick-or-treating for the first time in both my mom's neighborhood and ours. I hope to get back to dressing flashy this year, though!

[Phillycat]

5. Last year.

I was Dorothy. That's a turtle in my basket - I couldn't find a stuffed dog anywhere! I also left red glitter in my path all night from my ruby slippers. :D

[Q3JR4]

6. Do I only count Halloweens?

I didn't dress up last Halloween, but I think the one before that I dressed as Magenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

If it can be other times than Halloween, my friends and I have taken to dressing up in pirate-y regalia and terrorizing coffee shops, movie theaters, and the local Winco in town on Saturday nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all hail his great and mighty noodley appendages and all that. :P What's that you say? Fridays are the religious holidays of the FSM? Well, my friends are students who don't have time to dress up in the mornings, so we atone for our wicked ways by doing the pirate-y thing on Saturday instead.

The funny thing is that when we go out there's usually one pirate captain and two pirate-y wenches. The last time me and my friend's husband dressed as the wenches and she was the captain, so the roles aren't always what some would think they should be.

Thank the God's otherwise I wouldn't be hanging around them.

Q3JR4

[FloridaJudy]

12. Not just Halloween

They have a medieval fair here every February. I'm out of Ivan the Terrible's court. I'll have to get someone to take a picture.

[DarkTirade]

7. I don't remember... the last couple years I've always ended up being busy enough that I could never

get a costume together. :(

[tigereye]

8. last year -

we had a party. I tried to dress up as Holly Go Lightly with the big hat, sunglasses, pearls, etc.

I always dress up a little to take the kid trick or treating as well.

:hi:

crap, no pictures, Terry?

[terrya]

11. That's nice!

No pictures, tigereye. Although, picture a sort of demented looking Peg Bundy and you get the idea. :-)

:hi:

[tigereye]

13. ah!

I'd love to have seen that.


For Halloween one year, my brother went in drag. It was pretty damned impressive I have to say.


I love Halloween, and no one invited us to a party this year. :cry:

I suppose we could go to the Zombie Walk, though.



(with my apologies for posting a Trib. Rev. link... )

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_530761.html

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Last year...

We dress up at work. It's GREAT.
Duckie

[Xipe Totec]

10. It's been a while

long enough that I can't remember.

This year I'm planning to dress up as an ARM

'cause I can't think of anything scarier than an Adjustable Rate Mortgage







:scared:

[Blue-Jay]

14. terrya is a handsome man.

He's probably not a good-looking woman, however.

He's a goddamn beautiful man, though.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. and that's the triple truth

Ruth

[terrya]

22. OMG...

Wow. :hug:

prolesunited has a goddamned beautiful man, that's for sure.

And I did pretty damned well in the beautiful man department...when you met him a month or so ago. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

23. Smooch!

I love you and your funny Canadian Jeopardy-Man!

Some of my best friends are queers! hahahahahahaha!

[jonnyblitz]

45. proles is a hottie, too. I met her in D.C . a few years back.

she is nice inside and out. quite the sweetie, IMHO. :hi:

[ThatsMyBarack]

15. 1985!

I was a freshman in high school, and I went dressed as the Statue of Liberty! ;)

[redqueen]

16. It's been so long I don't even remember.

I wish I'd have crossed paths with you back then, though. :D

[InvisibleTouch]

17. 1982.

And damn, what an awful year.

[av8rdave]

18. A few years ago when my son was still in HS

I went as a stabbing victim - handle stuck in the back, blade coming out of the front - and my son went as a shooting victim - bullet holes, and a tire track across his chest. Lots of fake blood for both.

We both had tags on our toes that read "accidental death."

[Ava]

19. last year

there is always a halloween party to go to and also i hand out candy to the kiddies every year. last year i fixed up our front porch with spiderwebs, candles, creepy music, and some other stuff. one kid actually took off running as soon as he got to the steps. :rofl:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. 2004

I was Fred Berry

[Drunken Irishman]

24. 2006, soon to be 2007.

I'll dress up every year...even when I'm 80.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. 2006 nt

[swag]

26. Oh, maybe seven years ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. 1975, I think.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. 20-odd years ago.

My sister had a Halloween party and I went as island girl, wrapped in a pareo and barefoot. I was younger then. The flower behind my ear was a chrysanthemum. Did I mention it snowed that night? I was cold.

[carly denise pt deux]

29. 1983...I was dressed as a high school cheerleader

I was out shaking my pom poms for candy :)
Carly

[Steven_S]

30. 1963

hoo boy, now I feel old. :)

[NMDemDist2]

31. 2005 n/t

[Midlodemocrat]

32. Well, this will be the first year BabyMidlo goes out with friends.

I dressed up in my prisoner's uniform when taking her out before, but this year I am off the hook. I get to sit on the front steps and give out the candy.

[clyrc]

33. In 1989 when I was 19

I put on a clown wig and nose, with a yellow shirt and purple pants, and I handed out candy. I took the clown stuff off after it made a 3 year old fall down trying to get away from my door.

[tandot]

34. 2006. Totally NOT planned

We went to visit family and I didn't feel like dressing up. Well, the whole family was invited to a halloween party and decided to dress me up. They decided to dress me (female) as a guy with flannel shirt and oversized pants. Well, they cut the hair for my mustache and beard from a wig with black, curly hair and glued it to my face. Everyone at the party asked me if I fell into a pussy.

[Heidi]

35. 1997 or so. I was "the night sky."

:)

[MrScorpio]

36. 1988

I went to Georgetown as The Devil

[SteppingRazor]

37. Last year.

I believe last year was when I went as a fallen angel (black wings, black clothes, etc.) and my fiancee went as an angel. We like to do costumes in pairs. A couple years before that, we went as Alice and the Mad Hatter.

[Rhythm]

38. Two years ago... along with Oktoberain, and our friends Mike and Hollie...

I was their "servent" for the evening...



The year before, i went for a more 'traditional' look...

[Orsino]

39. '85

In boots 'n' camouflage with a bag over my head, I was the Unknown Soldier.

Little did I know that I'd be wearing that stuff for real (minus the bag) a few years later.

[LibDemAlways]

40. I don't know if you'd consider it a costume exactly, but

I think it was 1989. At the time I worked in a suburban travel agency. Most of our clients were well-to-do Stepford wives who came in to book the family's annual trip to Hawaii. They all wore spangly t-shirts over white leggings and had big, big hair. Many of them brought their Hispanic nanny along to watch the kids while they were taking care of business.

As a joke I showed up on Halloween dressed as one of the clients - oversized glitzy t-shirt with shoulder pads, white leggings, my thin hair teased as huge as I could manage. One of my co-workers came as my kids' nanny, toting my overflowing Nordstrom bag.

The other people in the office loved it. Not a single client commented other than to say they liked my t-shirt. Good times.

[otherlander]

41. Last night.

Went to a costume party at a friend's house. Dressed up as this girl here with the green top:

[MrCoffee]

42. same here...not the costume party at your friend's house, though

we took the kids to a halloween thing at the zoo. my daughter was Curious George, and i was The Man With The Yellow Hat

[otherlander]

44. Dude! I used to love those books!

I remember reading them when I was, like, five.
:hi:

[Roon]

43. 1993

I dressed up like a priest.Had the collar and everything.

[SarahB]

46. 4 years ago, but Finnfan and I are going to a party next weekend.

:woohoo:

He's going to be a devil, but he's not big on dressing up, so his "devil" is going to consist of black pants, a red dress shirt, and a "Hello my name is Mephastophales" sticker. :evilgrin:

I'm going to be an angel and I was going to follow lionesspriyanka's suggestion and go with a white corset and skirt, but I found a very elegant white strapless dress to wear over the corset (too shy :blush:) along with a halo and wings. O8)

[dropkickpa]

47. The only year I've ever missed was 2000

I was knocked up and just couldn't be bothered. I LOVE Halloween, and will dress up until I die.

[madrchsod]

48. 1957...

we trick or treated for three days,never had any crap in our candy,and did`t worry about weird people getting us.

[mvd]

49. Hi, terrya! Not sure I remember

I think I was 12. :hi:

[DarkTirade]

50. Futz... I just realized I can't this year too.

Didn't look at the calender when I was planning my move, but I'm gonna be driving all Tuesday and Wednesday. :( Would be rather pointless to wear a costume while I'm driving cross country.

[susanna]

51. October 12, 2007.

I'm a sucker for it. :-)

[Capn Sunshine]

52. I'm in my (sigh) late 50s and I still dress up every year.

I used to do a giant people come for miles around freakshow, but suddenly there's no trick or treaters in my hood. I enjoy the flesh eating zombie look.

I think people had to choose between kids or a nice house and kids lost out. I literally had SIX total kids all night last year.

[samplegirl]

53. going tonight!!!

[Blue-Jay]

54. Last year, I dressed up like a douchebag.

Wore a Red Sox hat.




































j/k I'd never wear a Red Sox hat.

[unpossibles]

55. this morning? n/t

[Breeze54]

56. I dressed up as a witch about five years ago, I think.

But I didn't 'go out' except to the sidewalk in front of my house. ;)

Last time I actually 'went out' to a club dressed up for Halloween,
was the year before that, with friends. 2001?