Comments on Cozy Chicks: Halloween Costumes - Made or Bought?

When I was young, we came up with our own costumes...

2009-10-27T16:55:33.521-04:00

When I was young, we came up with our own costumes. If you wanted to be a cowboy, someone in the house (8 kids) had a hat, and a gun, and you probably had jeans already!

We were hobos a LOT, as the blackened cork and whatever raggedy clothes you had worked well for that, but we had FUN figuring out what we wanted to be within the limitations!

And it didn't seem to matter to the adults handing out the candy, so we were happy.

You know, I just wrote a whole comment about Hallo...

2009-10-27T10:21:39.665-04:00

You know, I just wrote a whole comment about Halloween costumes and ccreating them from whatever was there in closets, garages, etc. But this annoying Blogger comment program zapped it YET AGAIN. This is SO lame, Blogger. Step up your game.

When my daughter was young I made her fairy, angel...

2009-10-26T23:55:15.504-04:00

When my daughter was young I made her fairy, angel, princess costumes etc.. We got away from celebrating Halloween by the time our son would have been old enough (his health problems made it unwise anyway) but DD says she still remembers those lovingly homemades with fondness. I think she may still have that one halo with the antique ribbon on it. It was a hand-me-down with semi-precious stones in it. She actually won a local contest that year. I enjoyed making them for her too.

Mostly I made them, when my daughter was young. H...

2009-10-26T10:36:39.099-04:00

Mostly I made them, when my daughter was young. Her first was a Siamese cat (her only memory of that was that the kids at daycare kept trying to pull her tail). One year I was laid off and with time on my hands I crafted a magnificent satin, jeweled princess costume. And there was that year she and a friend went out as Fuzzy Dice--that was fun.

When my kids were small, we lived in a upscale yup...

2009-10-26T08:18:55.338-04:00

When my kids were small, we lived in a upscale yuppie area where NO ONE would send their kids out in store bought-unless it was from an actual costome shop. So I made clowns, dragons, pirates, fairies, witches and who knows what else. When we moved here (University City-a decidedly left leaning suburb of St.Louis) the kids friends and classmates wore cheap store bought, lovingly made homemade, thrown together out of the dirty laundry bag costomes and everything in between. The pressure was off and I relaxed. The kids wore parts of our assembled stuff from years gone by and scraped together the rest of the cosumes themselves.
We were all a whole lot happier.
Caryn in St.Louis