Halloween 2007

[Gaven McLaren]

Alright has everyone chosen their Halloween costume for this year?

I have. This year I am going to be wearing a fem costume for the first time. I bought from Target a Princess costume. My roommate is having to do some alterations because the underskirt was keeping the velvet from stretching enough to get past my shoulders. I will post pics when it is done being fixed.

[Tekla]

Where I work, Halloween is a big deal. A real big deal. A really, really big deal. Its a huge event in SF, and we try hard to put on very special shows to match. We expect our customers to come in costume, but we expect each other to outdo any of them - that makes it a real party atmosphere. Besides we are theatre pros, if we can't do costume who can? Besides, as long as we have to work (we have a saying that you can do anything you want on this job except show up late or have Halloween and New's Year Eve off) we might as well enjoy it too.

In the past I have done....

Schoolgirl in Disgrace for Tenacious D
Scullery Maid for the Residents
Bride of the Fillmore (Wedding dress, dyed black w/ stage blood) for The Cramps
Goth Girl for Bauhaus
Gypsy the Acid Queen for STS9

Now, the proviso is I have to be able to work in this, move in this, and its techno hippy-hop (Sound Tribe Sector 9, again) so it has to be better than Gypsy the Acid Queen, which was most excellent.

So, the choices I've come up with, and have the stuff (or access) to do are:

Aux Folies Bergere - That Frenchish Can-Can, Lady of the Night deal
Peter Coop's Devil Girl from Lords of Acid logo (adult content warning if you look it up - I would do a hard R version, not an X rated version)
Ma and Pa from American Gothic painting (with a female as the Pa )
Lusty Pirate Wench - Everyone knows what a lusty pirate wench looks like
50s Grease - Poodle Skirt, pink angora sweater, bobby sox, saddle shoes

Any suggestions?

[Absaroka]

I'll be cleverly disguised as a normal human being.

Sad to say Halloween isn't a big deal around here and not many people dress up. It may have something to do with a large immigrant population-I don't think it gets celebrated in Pakistan and the West Indians all seem to think it's a Satanic holiday. There was a lady down the street who used to have aparty we would dress up for but she died.

Absaroka

[Gaven McLaren]

Tekla I say you find a friend and go as Ma and Pa from American Gothic painting. I say it would be fun for both parties. You should post pics no matter what you go as.

[Tekla]

There had been talk (as there is every year) of all of us on the stage crew doing something together, which is the Pirate idea, if they all agree (doubtful) then I'm going to have to roll with that. We meet this week a couple of times, so we shall see.


On the topic of Halloween.....

So I had spent the day putting together a CD for the Halloween show, a nice mix of traditional stuff like Monster Mash and the shower theme from Psycho. So, later that night I'm getting all hot and bothered with my GF and we were just to the point were the windows were getting steamed up when the theme to John Carpenter's Halloween comes up on the random play/shuffle deal. I hear it but don't think anything about it, busy as I was, when she shoved me off saying "if you think I'm going to get sexy with you with that stuff on have another thought." All I could think of to say was "What's the problem baby, you want me to put a mask on?"

OK, bad idea.

So I get up and go into my office and hit the thing to shuffle to the next song, Devil with a Blue Dress On, and that was working until it ended and the theme to the Partridge Family (Come On, Get Happy!) starts to play and I start to sing along. Turned out, that was even worse than the Halloween theme. I was invited to take a cold shower and go work on my computer.

Sometimes you just can't win.

[DonnaT]

Man/Woman Costume

[Alana]

After dressing femme last year, I'm leaning homme this year. Dressing femme every year is likely to have people wondering. Am not quite ready to out myself any more than current.

However, I've had some suggestions for femme as a result of last year:
Jessica Rabbit, ballerina, man-woman (like Donna T's) post.

Like Tekla, I have to be able to work in costume, so not just anything will do.

Am currently planning a Frankenstein monster, hunchback, Phantom of the Club. A three-in-one somewhat traditional costume.

Alana

[Rikki]

Wifey demands, "Male costume this year!" After going to parties en femme twice in past 4 years, I am religated to being Dracula or something of the like.

BOOOOO to all!! Enjoy!!
Rikki

[JoAnnDallas]

I vote for

50s Grease - Poodle Skirt, pink angora sweater, bobby sox, saddle shoes

[KimberlyS]

No Halloween party planned or invited to yet that I know of. And if we do get something it will be a male outfit. But my wife is planning on talking the kids away to see a friend a weekend after Halloween. Then I just get some femme time which is even better than Halloween in my book.

KimberlyS-CD
joe in a skirt

[JoAnnDallas]

I just noticed that Halloween is on a Wednesday this year. That means that Halloween parties will start that Friday evening and go on thru Wednesday evening. That means 6 days that we can go out en fem and not worry to much about anyone else. LOL

[Gaven McLaren]

I am going to a party on the 27th that is being thrown by a friend. She was the one who suggested I get a Fem costume. She has commented that I am better looking in a skirt then she is many times.

[Tekla]

You are not going to get an invite more open than that, so what skirt are you going to wear dear?

[Gaven McLaren]

There was a link in my first post to the costume I am going to wear. I wear skirts out and about a lot more lately.

[SilverLady(SO)]

Gaven -

I just checked, and that link is for a search of various home furnishings.

- SL