It’s funny how as we grow up, Halloween changes from an excuse for kids to get free candy, to an excuse for girls to dress skanky sexy. I suppose at both ages we’re indulging in the “bad” side (from chocolate to showing off skin). But anyway…that is a topic w/in itself. Halloween is a few days away, and I call first post!
The typical question to ask is…what are you going to be for Halloween?? For me, I dunno, I haven’t dressed up or done anything special on Halloween for like, the last 6 years. I think the last time was 1st yr of college and I dressed up like “A Surfer” (just wore my suitemate’s boardshorts, yes, not creative at all).
I did a quick search of costumes online to “research” for this post (and also to find those awesome costumes at the top…how’s that for photoshop skillz ted??) I gotta make a few comments on what I found…
Most costume stores have a section “Sexy Costumes”
The funny thing is…yeah, those are sexy…but, it’s because they have models wearing them. haha. You’re not gonna automatically look like that when you put it on. And if you do…dang, call me props to you.
And if you ask me, that last one doesn’t look like proper firefighting attire at all! It obviously doesn’t provide enough protection.
But anyway, eventually I found my way to the kids costumes and it reminded me of two costumes I had when I was a kid…like, preschool and kindergarten. True stories, I have the pictures to prove it.
In Preschool, my mom drew a pumpkin on a piece of cardboard (about the size of a poster board). She colored it in, but you could still tell it was cardboard. She put a string around the top, and she put it over my neck. I was a pumpkin that year. A drawing of a pumpkin on cardboard. Yes. I love my Chinese mom. But it gets better…
I got to Kindergarten…gotta step up my game, got boys and girls to impress. I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So my mom dressed me in all green clothes and then, I swear… wrapped a wok in green fabric, and tied it to my back to be my shell. I wore a freaking wok to school.
sighhh, I do love you mom…but that’s some ghetto costuming. Resourceful yes…but I imagine opening the door on Friday night to a kid wearing a piece of cardboard around his neck, and a kid wearing a wok on his back…and dang, I wouldn’t know what to say. Maybe I’ll give them an extra piece of candy.
In all honesty, I know that she was doing it out of love, she wanted us to get to dress up and partake in the holiday like all the other kids, so she did what she could. Thanks Mom.
Nowadays…this is who I’d dress up as.
Holy crap…$800?? forget that… Gimme the $35 one. (now there’s the asian in me)
Sorry, I know this post is getting long…but I had to feature this next costume…
Our friend Regina sent us this picture. Someone at her school (Arcadia High School) dressed up as Spencer. Now, this is notable for a few reasons. First, yeah, awesome Wong Fu fan! Second, wait, they actually found another Spencer bear? How? Where? We don’t even know where to find him. Third, ok so you found one, and then you freaking GUTTED him out so you could WEAR his skin?! Oh my gah!! LOL. He/She is wearing a dead Spencer carcass! How could youu?!?! There’s your scary Halloween image for you this year. Happy trick or treating sexifying normal occupational uniforms.
-phil
A WOK!
December 26, 2010 at 5:46 am
Ahhh Phil. The part about the costumes your mom made you totally made me laugh out loud to myself. I like your mom!
October 6, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Hey it’s me again, do you remember me? I sent you an e-mail not too long ago, maybe it get caught in spam for some reason.
May 23, 2010 at 3:22 am
Wai U Shao Ting: There is no reason to raise your voice.
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November 14, 2009 at 12:41 am
Hahaha loved this post!
October 31, 2009 at 8:57 pm
SPENCER!
October 26, 2009 at 9:08 am
A wok as a turtle shell….that’s so smart!!
October 25, 2009 at 8:54 pm
haha your costumes as a kid is awesome.
i dressed up as a soccer player and my dad just told me to wear my uniform.
and one time i just wore my dads clothse and dressed as an old man haha
November 25, 2008 at 11:42 pm
wow… the adult costumes for women are…. ew… but I will say. Those girls modeling them are OBVIOUSLY not from Oregon.
I like how my mom…. just gave me one of my sister’s panda sweatshirts to wear on halloween. haha but I wish she gave me a wok. but I think all the woks we have would have been like… big enough to cover me up in, too big to tie on my back. I would have fallen over into the wok. lolz