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darcydodoThis probably wasn't officially a meme, but I think by being at least the third person in a chain of posters, that probably makes it one now.
Things I've been for Halloween (and now comes the great taxing of the memory):
I don't think I dressed up when I was 0 or 1. But I certainly did when I was two, and so starting with that year I was....
A green cat.
A red cow.
A clown.
A fairy princess.
A witch.
A mermaid.
... oh my god, I've forgotten the costumes of two whole years! ...
A winged centaur.
A minstrel.
A hippogryph.
... umm... two more years go by, in which I am __ and __ (but I would guess that one year I was a vampire, and the other I may conceivably have worn my fencing gear) ...
Athena.
A Venetian Carnivale-goer.
Keats' poetry.
Then I didn't really dress up when I was in Oxford, so that's four years without costumes. And for the last couple of years, since I've been in Berkeley, I've been a vampire (the first year in plainclothes, last year wearing my red skirt and corset, so a more fashionable and ancient sort of vampire). This year I'm wearing some old Ren-Faire clothes of mine, and last night, since I was just in normal clothing, I was straight. When my mom gets home from Arrowhead, or at least once she gets back in range on her cell-phone, I'll try phoning her and see if she can remember any other costumes.
ETA 2/17/05: I've finally remembered that in third grade (possibly 4th, but certainly one of the two missing years in there) I was Zelda. My friend Jasper Linke dressed up as Link.
Things I've been for Halloween (and now comes the great taxing of the memory):
I don't think I dressed up when I was 0 or 1. But I certainly did when I was two, and so starting with that year I was....
A green cat.
A red cow.
A clown.
A fairy princess.
A witch.
A mermaid.
... oh my god, I've forgotten the costumes of two whole years! ...
A winged centaur.
A minstrel.
A hippogryph.
... umm... two more years go by, in which I am __ and __ (but I would guess that one year I was a vampire, and the other I may conceivably have worn my fencing gear) ...
Athena.
A Venetian Carnivale-goer.
Keats' poetry.
Then I didn't really dress up when I was in Oxford, so that's four years without costumes. And for the last couple of years, since I've been in Berkeley, I've been a vampire (the first year in plainclothes, last year wearing my red skirt and corset, so a more fashionable and ancient sort of vampire). This year I'm wearing some old Ren-Faire clothes of mine, and last night, since I was just in normal clothing, I was straight. When my mom gets home from Arrowhead, or at least once she gets back in range on her cell-phone, I'll try phoning her and see if she can remember any other costumes.
ETA 2/17/05: I've finally remembered that in third grade (possibly 4th, but certainly one of the two missing years in there) I was Zelda. My friend Jasper Linke dressed up as Link.
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Date: 2004-10-31 05:16 pm (UTC)Jolly Green Giant (this is even funnier considering that for this one, I was 3 or 4--my little brother was the Great Pumpkin that year).
mad scientist
mummy
I'm sure I wore my fencing gear once.
Some kind of vampire at least once, probably involving a tux.
Renaissance outfits (a purple and black one, as well as my green/black wedding outfit)
My senior year in high school I made a point of not wearing a costume for 31 Oct, and then for 1 Nov, wearing a weird composite thing involving a cape and my "letter" (earned from chess with ribbons from band, orchestra, and chorus on it), which happened to be a J. I spent the day pretending to be puzzled at why people kept commenting on what I was wearing. :)
Scots costume (great kilt, stockings, white shirt, sporran) that I got for my oldest sister's wedding
sort-of assassin
The Dread Pirate Roberts
I *really* want to see the "Keats' poetry" costume, or at least a description of it. Pictures? Pretty please? (My first thought was something involving an awful lot of customized press-on "tattoos", but somehow I doubt that was it. :> )
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Date: 2004-11-01 01:16 am (UTC)So far as I know, there aren't any pictures. But what I did was got a moderately cheap edition of Keats' poetry, cut out the pages, and pinned them to a black leotard (or some such).... Very minimalist, but very accurate. ;) His birthday is Halloween, you see.
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Date: 2004-11-02 01:27 am (UTC)The wings? Care to add a little backstory?
The earliest costume I can remember wearing was Danger Mouse. What an incredibly quirky show... now you have yet another source of my essential weirdness. Looking back as pictures, I've since realized that my white mouse tights were just a little too transparent for comfort. Just another hilarious piece of blackmail for my Mom. HAhahahaha! I think she's got some other doozies hidden away elsewhere.
...can't handle yer' boldface laddie?
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