Countdown to Halloween: 2 days

My Costume History - Part 5

I am still continuing my history, now going from showing you more traditional costumes to just a bit more eccentric. By eccentric, I mean not what just anyone would come up with for a Halloween costume (especially as a kid). I'm not really sure how I think of my ideas, but for this one, I imagine I was wandering the costume store to see what appealed to me...I probably thought, "This looks unique and different...I'll pick that." Erin looks like she came up with her costume the same way...see, us twins sometimes do think alike. I'm pretty sure we were about 10 years old in these pictures.

Example 1:
Erin as a Hobo, Me as a Gypsy - Erin wore our Dad's suspenders and one of his plaid shirts stuffed with a pillow...I don't remember how we did those patches--not sure if we pinned them on or had Mom sew them on old jeans (maybe Erin remembers?). Her big plastic tie and jacket were the costume set. Oh, and that's Dad's hat. We both had a pair of the sneakers she was wearing...do you remember those? They were checkered and glowed in the dark! My plastic vest and skirt were my costume set. I tied my Mom's gold shiny scarf around my head. Dad did both mine and Erin's makeup.



Example 2:
Here's me sitting on our steps showing off my Dad's decorations that were meant to scare the trick-or-treaters as they came to the front door (this was in addition to whatever he had set up outside). Of course, though, the lights were turned off to add to the effect.


Okay...only one more day of my costume history...I know, I know, you are sooo upset. Well, alright, I'll throw in a couple extra things...like, maybe, my dog in a costume and a really good trick I played on my sister...[in best evil voice] ha ha ha.

Hasta mañana...