I'm working on Halloween costumes. They look better this year than they have in the past, but they still seem to come out oddly. BrilliantEditor's costume has a head that looks more like a many sided polygon rather than the orb of a head a person would expect to be on the top of his body. Ah well. When I have appropriately placed the ears, he might begin to look more normal. For someone wearing a costume, that is.
I can't decide what I'm going to be. I though about going as the mother of the character BrilliantEditor will impersonate, but there's no real picture of her. Besides, I'm not sure I want to spread that kind of bizarre idea around--some kind of unusual role that I'd play in my husband's life? People might get the wrong idea about our relationship.
Which reminds me...in college, I went to a costume party on short notice because a guy's date went AWOL. I can't say that it was the best evening of my life, but I did go to a concert and have dessert OFF CAMPUS and that was pretty cool. I was a freshman, too, so you know they thought I was cute enough to take on a date.
At any rate, the costume that really caused a stir was the combined effect of two people. A guy and a girl (I only remember that his name was Sam) came dressed as S&M sex partners. She had a collar on and a leash, and he was walking her around kind of daring someone to say something.
No one said anything. They and their leash faded into the background when people started disco dancing.
Of course, this whole thing would have been normal at a regular college party. But this party had no alcohol. So no one had clouded judgment. So nothing could account for the suggestive outfit except suggestiveness.
Posted by dotty at October 14, 2003 09:46 PM