What’s your favorite Halloween costume?
It’s Halloween today — that time when we all get to dress up in costumes and commit a legal form of extortion.
Trick or treat, after all, would get you arrested the rest of the year…
Even The Legal Genealogist admits to occasionally having fun playing dress up.
But… sigh… I have a confession to make.
I don’t have, or at least can’t readily access, a single solitary photograph in a Halloween costume.
There may be one, somewhere, but for the life of me I can’t find any.
And here I was going to challenge everybody to a “what’s your favorite Halloween costume” contest today!
Now… don’t be disappointed. I still challenge you to tell me about your favorite Halloween costume!
It’s just that I’m going to have to use instead, as my own entry, the last really good picture of me that was even taken:
I was, after all, in dress-up clothes, for sure — my DNA establishes rather definitively that my ancestry is boringly European.
Happy Halloween!
Well, this is probably one of many compliments you will have on the photo posted. Sandy, my wife said…”You were a gorgeous baby”…not one word about your native friends there…women, they only see babies…lol
I have the same problem as you — I can’t find a single photo of myself as a kid dressed up for Halloween. What I remember is that in my early teens my favorite costume was to dress up as a hooker. Maybe that’s why my parents never took a photo!
I don’t remember pictures of me as a child in Halloween costumes, though I can’t imagine my father passing up a chance to take them, with three of us going out together. They may be among the 10,000 or so slides than I haven’t scanned onto my hard drive yet. I think my favorite one was going as a gypsy, which I did year after year. I wore one or another costume from my “dress up” box–from somewhere I had several velvet formals from the 1930s. Maybe they had belonged to my mother, though I never thought to ask her. Then she let me raid her jewelry box for multiple strands of costume jewelry, and she made up my face. Oh, I felt SO sophisticated!
Only once as an adult did I ever wear a costume, to a party. I went as a sunflower, in a homemade costume. A picture was taken of the one-year-old who lived downstairs using her toy (empty) watering can to water my roots.
The funniest costume i have heard of and also wish i had a picture of was one my mother in law made my husband wear when he was a kid in the 60s. My very European husband was made to wear an Aunt Jemima costume. I would pay for a picture of that today!
I think one reason why there are not a lot of photos taken of kids in their Halloween costumes, is film was expensive and flashbulbs even more so. We usually were dressed up when it was dark outside. Alas, I tried to find early photos of my sibs and me, and couldn’t find any.
My favorite Halloween costume was a pink bunny costume that my mother, a fantastic seamstress, made for me. I have a photo she took of me asleep on the couch after a long night of trick-or-treating and candy eating. Unfortunately, the ears got chopped off in the photo, but you can still see the fluffy white bunny tail. 🙂