Costume or Outfit? October 30/31 2010

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:00 pm

Ok, I haz head cold with a Migraine back...so I called in sick today...I work at the Halloween store...now normally I want one of everything there...
(7 yrs of this does that too you)
This year? not so much. Its gotten so cheaply made, its all sexy raver kitten shit.

I get to dress up.We're one of the last stores that allows the Emp's to do this....

Well Im famous for my crazy "outfits" with my co-workers. I always TRY to incorporate 10% of the store product, not easy as they stopped giving us broken and torn shit 2 yrs ago...so my stock is running low.
But I also like to do Questionable "outfits"
The year Steve Erwin(croc hunter) Died (2 days after) I went in dressed as his wife, total safari clothing with a leopard print safari hat, Black lace veil and a manta ray strapped to my back.
Ya even funnier that was the day the tv crew decided to pop in, we all decided that I could not be on the show...hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

This year, I was thinking of my Questionable "outfit"...hmmmm whats big...whats happened....

Ok...here it is(gawd Im so distasteful sometimes...I love it!)
I want to go in as Cryogentically frozen Michal Jackson!!!!

So the question of the day...and fun for the rest of us...You know imitation is the best form of flattery.....

What are you dressing up as for Halloweenie 2010????

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:09 pm

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pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:12 pm

a large'esque purple orange and yeller bird???

what is it Artemis???

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:12 pm

I once dressed as a vato mexican. Completely browned out my face, ears, neck, and hands. Wore the typical plaid shirt buttoned at the neck with the wife beater underneath and bandana on my head. I did alot of leaning against a wall and talked with a mexican accent. Alot of people who know me didn't recognize me at first. I also got a lot of concerned looks like "who invited that person?" I think I may have scared some people...

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:12 pm

hmmmm That was YOU Lucky?

LOL

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:21 pm

There's a running tradition of me getting in trouble for coming into the office in costume around Halloween.

One Halloween I had been working on a deal for a yellow pages company for over a year. So I took a bunch of old yellow phone books, ripped out the pages and sewed them onto a shiftdress. I was allowed to stay like that because they were such a large client and the client though it was funny.

Another year I wore a black skirt suit with a dark green button-down and black pointy shoes with buckles. I wore green eyeshadow, green fishnets and a black/green striped witches hat. Without the hat, I looked professional/office friendly. I was asked to remove the hat nonetheless.

Another year I wore a navy blue pant suit with a blue button-down, brown wingtips and a Brooks Brothers tie (made for little boys so it fit the outfit proportionally). I slicked my hair back like in "Addicted to Love" video. They couldn't say anything cuz I was wearing the same "uniform" all the dudes wear! Ha!

For the last 2 years I've had to lay people off on the Friday closest to Halloween, so I didn't dress up for the office.

Its gotten so cheaply made, its all sexy raver kitten shit.

I find this so annoying. I miss seeing more creative outfits. I can dress sexy any frigging day. I don't need an excuse to dress sexy, and have no interest in wearing cheap revealing poor-fitting stuff in what is typically cold weather.

That's why I got the mascot outfit a couple years back. Nice and warm.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:27 pm

pinemom wrote:a large'esque purple orange and yeller bird???

what is it Artemis???

It's a funky chicken.

When I wear it, I generally don't say anything when the head is on. It's funny watching people stare at me and try to figure out who I am. Like Lucky some people wondered who invited the weird bird. It's also fun riding the subway in it and not talking to anyone.

At the first party I wore it to, someone pointed out that the purple on the wings suggests that it's a parrot, not a chicken. I then said in a very straight delivery "I'll admit. I'm a hermaphroparrot, a funky chicken stuck in a parrot's body".

When I first tried it on in the mascot store, I started singing
HOW FUNKY IS YOUR CHICKEN? HOW LOOSE IS YOUR GOOSE? (Yes, that loudly).

The salesperson said "Excuse me, ma'am, that's a parrot, not a chicken."

I kept dancing and shaking my caboose. Eventually all the workers started laughing and said "It's a funky chicken now."

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:28 pm

Yes, Warm is Yum! Like dur...its winter.

I was thinking of making the icicles out of cellophane and glitter and a white out face...of course, cause even I am too tan for a white girl...I guess Ill have to shadow my large honker so I can give the illusion of it being "toothpick" thin.

Oh, and long fake eyelashes...whited out....hahahaa

Nitevenus · Post by **Nitevenus** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:29 pm

I'm going to go support Las Vegas's first Halloween Parade (burner organized and influenced) and go glow/blinkie inspired out of my playa costume box. I've got the traditional costumes but.....and that new reddish orange wig I've got, it deserves some play time.

Lucky pinemom......what a dream job! What about a zombie miner??

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:30 pm

I like Funky chicken too...

Um it way doesnt look like a parrot....Does the guy that says its a parrot still work for the mascot store???? I have my doubts....

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:32 pm

I got myself one of those full face, head to toe black spandex body suits, and once I figure out what to do with the battery box for a string of led lights, I'm going to be the night sky...I'd like to be able to afix the string lights in a way that they would look like the big dipper, or other constilation, but atm, I'll just be shoving the lights into the suit after I put it on.

And no, snarkwads, I will not shove the battery box up my ass.

(hey did I just make up a new term? snarkwads)

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:35 pm

The package actually said "one parrot outfit with foam head"

It still makes me giggle when I recall how shy and embarassed (for me) he was when he said "excuse me, ma'am..."

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:36 pm

Oh yeah i can't stand all those "sexy" costumes; sexy cop, referee, nurse, fireman, etc. Fuck just go as a whore then. Nothing wrong with pros but does every floosie have to dress as though they are one? And now that sleazy shit is trickling down to little girl costumes. My daughter who is gorgeous and fit and can wear anything doesn't like those costumes either. Thank god i did something right in raising her...

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:36 pm

Nitevenus wrote:I'm going to go support Las Vegas's first Halloween Parade (burner organized and influenced) and go glow/blinkie inspired out of my playa costume box. I've got the traditional costumes but.....and that new reddish orange wig I've got, it deserves some play time.

Lucky pinemom......what a dream job! What about a zombie miner??

Sounds Hella Cool Fun!

Zombie Miner(last yrs tragedy), Zombie Military, Zombie burner and homemaker Zombie, Ive all done.

Working for that store is fun, doesnt pay shit...though. So your definitely not working to pay a huge bill or nuttin.
But yes, I do it almost every yr. Its a great way to decompress, well cause your still in burner outfits.
i feel sorry for all the other Halloween stores cause they've all got so uptight they wont let anyone dress up anymore.

I think a couple of peeps ruined it for the rest....dressing in those damn skimpy raver kitten outfits...go figure ...that we sell.

Post by **Eric** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:40 pm

I have never used a store bought costume, not even when I was a kid. I tend towards realistic yet odd or gross: tweeker trucker; non-gender specific Christian person (Its Pat!); dressing normally with huge bruises on my arm & neck....

One year I turned over a small mesh paper-clip cup, hot glued about 6 little flowers on it, then tied it on my head with a ribbon, so it looked like an odd little pillbox hat. I wore my normal street clothes with it. When people in bad store-bought costumes asked what I was supposed to be, I just told them "more creative than you" with my full snark voice.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:41 pm

That sounds way cool, Bounce, and warm too!

You should totally line up Orion's belt with your waist.

Random bit of trivia: did you know that the constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central are reversed?

Nitevenus · Post by **Nitevenus** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:46 pm

I have my own company and every year I decorate the hell out of it......2000 plus square feet of spiders, webs,bats, gravestones, life size characters of every thing halloweenie......but this year....nada. Tired... closed my branch office and we've lost a lot of our people due to the economy. Depressing really. Even the UPS guy is bummed that I didn't decorate. I still let the few I have left dress up if they want.

Any excuse to decorate and dress up......I'm there!!

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:49 pm

I don't know. I am sick of doing elebarate makeups and going to a party where I'm the one who doesn't realize that it's a party not a monster movie.

Plus the SO doesn't have a costume yet, so we may find a pair of outfits to go together.

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:52 pm

What about this years miners "tragedy" wrap yourself up in a big tube.

Nitevenus · Post by **Nitevenus** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:54 pm

Oh heck.....off to the storage shed for all the orange and black buckets....even if it is a scaled down version. Ha ha, guilted myself into it! Thanks for the nudge, Pinemom......hope you start feeling better. [/img]

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:56 pm

Artemis wrote: and warm too!

No kidding, after years of going out in Rocky Horror outfits (ala Frank-n-Fuerter) it's time to warm up.

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:39 pm

Do a tribute to Barbara since she just passed.

Zombie June Cleaver if you can pull it off.

Dont forget the pearls!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:43 pm

Bounce530 wrote:What about this years miners "tragedy" wrap yourself up in a big tube.

No, no that had a happy ending. You'd have to go as a chinese coal miner.
Or you can always...
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weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:57 pm

im using my extra work uniform... i work in a grocery store thats big in the southern states (publix) im grabbing a work shirt my apron and cutting up the shirt and apron adding fake cuts and scars to my face and arms and covering my self in blood ... thus THE CORPORATE ZOMBIE!

Trishntek · Post by **Trishntek** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:40 am

Post by **Eric** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:16 am

Not to offend (oh, who am I kidding..) but if you're dressing as any kind of zombie you had better actually be killing people & eating their brains. Otherwise its boring, and I don't care how you make it "kooky" its Done. To. Death.

The Official Lame Costume List also includes:

Any of the Jersey Shore cast (you lose 2 chances at sex for either Snookie or the Situation)

Christine O'Donnell; Sarah Palin; Sharon Angle; Glenn Beck (if you haul around a full size whiteboard and can extemporaneously create conspiracy theories for a minimum of 30 minutes while mentioning Hitler at least 20 times in that period, you may do Beck and not be lame)

Obama as: Hitler; a monkey; Stalin; Stalinhitler; a Jewish banker; a pimp; a hooker

Any form of zombie

Any form of vampire

Anything "sexy" unless its a hooker, a nurse, a stripper or a French maid

Women putting on a mustache & a suit and thinking they look like a guy (if you want to do a Drag King, have someone show you how to do it right)

Men wearing dresses and thinking they look like a woman (if you want to look like a Drag Queen, have someone show you how to do it right. If you want to look like a transsexual, be prepared to endure lots of shaving)

If you bought it off the rack, its lame. If you bought it off the rack in 1982, its Gold. Wear it.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:58 am

MyLarry in a dress and heels is just oddly funny ... he isn't trying to dress in drag, he's just MyLarry in a dress. I think it is the way he's just at ease not matter what I put on him. And he can wear stilettos for hours and not be bothered. Freak.

Post by **Sham** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:59 am

I usually get dressed up every year, and my favorite was a Santa Claus suit. I put a string of Christmas lights around the door and passed out candy canes. It really messes with the little snipes.
As time goes on, you tend to not be as excited about dressing up and decorating.
I have used some of my burner playa wear and light-up night clothes for various parties.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:37 am

Nitevenus wrote:Oh heck.....off to the storage shed for all the orange and black buckets....even if it is a scaled down version. Ha ha, guilted myself into it! Thanks for the nudge, Pinemom......hope you start feeling better. [/img]

YAY!!!!!!!!!

Glad to do it to ya Nit!!!!!

Miki · Post by **Miki** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:55 am

I've been thinking about dressing up as Winnie the Pooh ('Cause I like giving hugs and I like honey), or Pikachu (Because Pikachu is still considered the shit even though he should've been extinct by now).

Zombies are cool, though.