Halloween History and Origin

[Guest Alana]

You rebel you.

I also wear stripes and plaid... at the SAME TIME!!!

[pam]

*gasps* Say it isn't so.

[Iggy]

My all time favorite costume was when I was in High School. At Church our theme that year was: Germs.

I wore white sweat shirt, pants, shoes and gloves that had red felt lips sewn all over.

I had my Mom put on bright red lipstick and kiss me all over my face too. I also made little red lips and clipped them in my hair.

What was I? - - - - Mononucleosis- - - Kissing disease!:p:p

Cost= three squares of red felt; probably 5 cents each. Tube of Red Red lipstick, probably about $0.75 (this is back in 1968). Thread was free for me, got it out of Mom's sewing basket. Hair clips- again free because I already had dozens that I used when I put my hair up in rollers- my hair was nearly to my waist.

[pam]

Oh I must remember that one. I might steal it one of these years.

[Jenamarie]

When my older brother was in HS he took an auto shop class that required him to buy a cover-all. He didn't stay in that class for very long, and the next year he took a bunch of cheap plastic flies (my mom was a school teacher and had a bunch of random stuff like that for her lessons), and hot-glued them all over the cover-all, and painted the word "Exterminator" across the back.

[Moksha]

Cost= three squares of red felt; probably 5 cents each. Tube of Red Red lipstick, probably about $0.75 (this is back in 1968). Thread was free for me, got it out of Mom's sewing basket. Hair clips- again free because I already had dozens that I used when I put my hair up in rollers- my hair was nearly to my waist.

Ben Raines could also go inexpensively costumed, needing only a can of green spray paint.