Oct 21, 2011
Friend Friday: What the best-dressed ghouls will be wearing
My Halloween costume, circa 1977. Except picture it made from a sheet by my grandma. And I was about 4 years older.
Boo! For today’s Fashion Beauty Friend Friday, we’re talking about Halloween and all things costume and dress-up.
1. Do you have plans for Halloween? What will you dress up as this year?
My plans for Halloween are the same plans I’ve had for 7 years now: taking my daughter trick-or-treating! The only thing more fun than being a kid going around the neighborhood on Halloween night, is accompanying your kid while going around the neighborhood on Halloween night. :)
2. Where do you go for costume and makeup inspiration?
I’ve long since stopped dressing up for Halloween myself, so I don’t really look for any costume and makeup inspiration, especially now that my daughter is old enough to have her own opinions about what she wants to wear. And believe me, she has opinions! (For the record, this year’s costume is Ballerina.)
3. What was the best costume you’ve ever donned?
One year for a friend’s Halloween party, my husband and I went as Sonny and Cher, complete with long, black wig for me and thrifted ‘70s attire for both of us. We were pretty impressed with ourselves and our creativity. And then we got to the party and met the other couple dressed as Sonny and Cher …
But as a child? My grandma used to make my sister and I fantastic costumes. She loved dressing up and helping us dress up. So my best costume has to be a tie between the year I was Wonder Woman (red and blue bathing suit, gold lame belt and cuffs, gold lame cord for the rope–and falsies, which my mother refused to let me wear) and the year I was Princess Leia (white gown made from a sheet, silver belt, hair done up in two buns, and a flashlight light saber). Yes, I am a child of the ‘70s.
4. What’s the most creative costume you’ve ever seen?
This wasn’t actually for Halloween, but a friend of mine hosts an epic Oscars party every year and for a while, she incorporated a costume contest. The year Catherine Zeta Jones was famously pregnant at the Golden Globes (2003), one of the partygoers came in a similar long black dress with a bike helmet underneath, perfectly simulating Miss Jones in all her mother-to-be glory. It was so realistic that many people at the party were shocked to see her drinking!
5. No holds barred: if you could dress up as anything, what would it be?
Honestly? Probably Lady Gaga. Because if you’re going to dress up, why not DRESS UP? She’s a walking Halloween costume gallery!
[This post is part of Modly Chic’s Fashion Beauty Friend Fridays.]
Your turn
- Are you dressing up for Halloween?
- What’s your all-time favorite costume?
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A Lady Gaga costume would be AMAZING. I agree with you, she is pretty much a walking Halloween costume gallery! :)
It goes to show what a savvy (and self-aware) business woman she is–she has her own line of official costumes! http://ladygaga.shop.bravadousa.com/Dept.aspx?cp=14781_39845