Memoirs: Halloween costumes

Tag : Kids' Costumes

When I was but a wee lad, I always wanted to dress as a vampire. Soeven though I branched out when I got older, the most frequentcostume over my lifetime would still be the old fangs and cape. Idon't remember any sort of streamlined prosthetics in the 1970s,and I thus had to use an extremely cheap set of choppers. They weremade of hard plastic and probably sold with the overused "one sizefits all" tag line. Yeah, I don't think so. Those fake fangs wereso big, I could barely stop from drooling, and my porch greetingswould come out as a slobbering "Shrick or Shreet!" Still, it wascool to see my cape billowing out behind me as my sister and I ranfrom house to house.
Skip ahead to college. While living on campus, I found a community"haunted house" that was held in the local armory. I wanted to helpout one year, so in addition to painting tombstones and doing othercrafty activities, I was asked to fill in as one of the characters,a get-up in which I've scared the most people. They had me wearjeans, a flannel shirt, and a jacket, then they gave me a hockeygoalie mask and a fake knife: I was Jason! My job was to scare thepeople coming out of a dark maze. I would hide around a corner,still inside the maze so they wouldn't see me. The mask was rathertight, which made my hair stick out for that lovely deranged look, 1 2 3 next page >>