I absolutely love Halloween. I love everything about it from the customs and trick-or-treating to the decorations. To the point that I somehow convinced my husband to let me put up all of the Halloween decorations before Labor Day this year. Out of all of it though it’s the costumes that are my absolute favorite.
Every year for as far back as I can remember I have worn a costume on Halloween night; and even before that because my mom dressed me up. I have been a pumpkin, a caterpillar, a cat, princesses, characters from books and film, and even creatures from mythology.
I have made customs, taken apart pieces of old dance costumes to make new ones and even gotten creative with random items that I found in the back of my closet to repurpose into a costume.
A few years ago I even spent the better half of a year working on my Halloween costume. Which admiratively was one of my more excessive Halloween projects. Taking up my kitchen table for months on end to the point that I pretty much stopped using it for anything else.
Over the years though no matter how many customs I put together. Or how much time I spend putting one together. My favorite Halloween costume of all time is still from Halloween of 2002. The year that my older sister and I went out as a pair of puppies.
At the time it was just fun. Running about in a 101 dalmations costume hoodie and sweats with black eye liner on my little face. Saying things like ‘trick or thraws, smell our paws, give us something for our jaws,’ which by the way mortified our mother’s friend who took us trick or treating that year.
Looking back on it years later it was really cute that we did that. It was also one of the most fun Halloweens that I can remember having as a child. Which I would like to credit to the costume. Because without the costumes and without being a pair of puppies it wouldn’t have worked out in the same way.
