Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes

What would Halloween be without the costumes? Not much fun I suppose. We all know the classic costumes such as the wolfman, dracula, frankenstein's monster, witches, devils, ghosts, and zombies. But there are others that are becoming frighteningly common. Take, for example the French Maid; what could be scarier than a maid in a short skirt? Or perhaps the oh-so-popular doctor costume is more to your liking. I don't know about you, but I practically pee my pants with fright when I think of someone wearing scrubs. And fake blood gives me the vapors!

OK, so you can probably guess that I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to Halloween costumes. The tradition is to dress like a ghost or a ghoul or something scary, but in modern times we often encounter halloween costumes that are anything but scary. I'm really not that opposed to them, but I don't think I could bring myself to dress as something happy.

I can't say that I'm not guilty of untraditional dress myself. I've dressed up as Zorro before, and there was the time I dressed as a gypsy. But in my defense, those costumes had a lot of black in them. And Zorro had a mask, so maybe I wasn't Zorro, but an evil Zorro imposter. Once I didn't dress up at all and told people that I was a serial killer (They look like everyone else). I stole that line from one of the Adams Family movies. The first two are worth seeing if you haven't already. They were a lot better than you might have thought. I really liked the late Raul Julia's take on Gomez and Angelica Houston's Morticia.

So Halloween has become a somewhat macabe costume ball where anything goes. I once went to a haunted house with a group of kids. The event was sponsored by the YMCA. We stayed at the "Y" and watched scary movies after the trip. One of the girls wore a McDonald's french fry costume and one of the boys taunted her mercilessly about it.

I never quite had the guts to do the whole sheet-with-the-eyes-cut-out ghost costume, but I think it's a classic. What if you got dry ice or something and made it look like dust whas coming out of the bottom. Then you could make the sheet dirty and you'd be pig-pen from the Charlie Brown cartoon. Halloween at TheRiverStyx.net