{"id":8174,"date":"2011-10-31T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2011-10-31T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:25:09","slug":"the-halloween-costume-interludes-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/10\/31\/the-halloween-costume-interludes-final-round\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween Costume Interludes, Final Round: the Riot, the Kitsch and the Wardrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which Team BadRep discuss Halloween costumes via email in a thoroughly serious and academically high-flying manner. <\/em><\/p>\n

Final Round: What are you <\/em>wearing?<\/h3>\n

Miranda:<\/strong> Before we answer this question, I have to say I was almost tempted by this, the most surreal thing Yandy has ever spawned. I give you ARCADE CUTIE<\/a>. So unhinged I might actually wear it. <\/p>\n

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\nLook at the FACIAL EXPRESSION on the skirt. The skirt is actually embarrassed<\/em> to be part of the outfit, which contains not one but THREE STRATEGICALLY PLACED FACES. It’s even better than Boob Fury<\/a>. Absolutely blew me away in the sheer entropic blaze of its own wrong-glory. Katy Perry has nothing on it. But anyway, what are we all wearing? I suspect almost none of us are going down the off-the-peg costume route? <\/p>\n

Sarah J<\/strong>: I\u2019m going to two parties so I’m attempting to combine the themes The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> and Le Tigre<\/em> into one outfit. I haven\u2019t really worked out how yet, but I think I\u2019ll probably be Riot Lucy (who looks pretty similar to Manda Rin from Bis<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Miranda:<\/strong> Alternate-Universe Lucy, who survives that horrible train crash in The Last Battle<\/strong>! Maybe you’re undead, too, and vowing revenge on CS Lewis for such a terrible plotting decision. <\/p>\n

Jenni:<\/strong> I was actually the wardrobe<\/em> from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe <\/strong>one year at school. <\/p>\n

\"Line<\/a>Miranda:<\/strong> I dressed up as Anne Bonny<\/a> last year. Needless to say, I did not use a shop-bought costume. Pirates do particularly badly in terms of costume-shop gender separation – all the women’s clothes are labelled “VIXEN PIRATE”, “WENCH PIRATE”, “MAIDEN PIRATE”, and so on, while the dudes get to be “CUT THROAT JACK”. So I just bought some plastic pistols and raided Age Concern. There was slightly more boob-coverage going on than in this 1700s etching. This year I think I’m going more trad-gothic-novel-heroine, but hopefully with an impressive amount of lace and waft. <\/p>\n

Rhian:<\/strong> My Halloween costumes tend to be ridiculous rather than sexy – in the past five years I’ve dressed as Terry Hall (incredibly vague tangential ‘Ghost Town’ joke), Patrick Bateman<\/a> once, and Thatcher twice. Last year I had an entire party themed around Tory\/Coalition Horror, but I fully accept that’s just me being slightly self-parodic. I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly done Sexy!Halloween, it feels like a bit of a cop-out almost in the dressing-up stakes (as in, I’d far rather someone react to me with ‘That’s really funny’ than ‘Wow, you look hot’). <\/p>\n

Jenni:<\/strong> Your predilection for dressing as Thatcher has always<\/em> worried me, Rhian.<\/p>\n

Markgraf:<\/strong> As I warned at the start of this chat, I’m going as a sexed-up Misdreavus<\/a>. That’s a Pokemon. And I’m not even sorry<\/a>. I love the shit out of Hallowe\u2019en, and dressing up, and monsters, and bodypaint, and Pokemon, and horrible outfits that try to be sexy but aren\u2019t. I love the former five for obvious reasons, but I love the latter because they\u2019re so incongruous. I mean, sexy takeaway food?<\/em> What the fuck? The allure of dressing as a tarted-up cartoon ghost from a videogame with the assistance of stripper heels and bodypaint is always going to be too much for me to resist. Also,<\/em> I\u2019m a boy. Hyper-femme incongruous drag is something I can pull off. So why not? Halloween is for dressing up as things that\u2019ll impress or terrify, and I can\u2019t think of anything more impressive and terrifying than sexy Pokemon cosplay in little more than paint and a wig.<\/p>\n

Miranda:<\/strong> Thatcher, a sexed-up Pokemon, and Riot Grrrl CS Lewis. We know how to party in here. How do I compete? Maybe I’ll just build some kind of furry several-headed contraption that fits over my shoulders and just go as Three Wolf Moon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jenni:<\/strong> Or the Pixar lamp.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Miranda:<\/strong> That person wins the entire internet. <\/p>\n

Rob<\/strong>: Well, I was<\/em> going to dress as a pumpkinhead – as in, I am going to hollow out a pumpkin and wear it on my head – but this whole exchange is making me think maybe I<\/em> should sex it up a bit. Me, with a pumpkin on my head… and a bikini. <\/p>\n

Happy Halloween from Team BadRep!<\/em><\/p>\n