Has anyone done a different/unique/oddball costume in the past, only to be faced with perplexed TOTers, party goers or co-workers?
Did you get frustrated by the general public's lack of imagination, horror knowledge or just plain stupidity?
I have had it a few times in the past, and was wondering if anyone else dealt with it, what that costume was, and how you replied to the unenlightened masses?
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Has anyone done a different/unique/oddball costume in the past, only to be faced with perplexed TOTers, party goers or co-workers?
Every year. 'Course, I'm mostly making it up as I go along anyway.
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Did you get frustrated by the general public's lack of imagination, horror knowledge or just plain stupidity?
Nah. I do get frustrated when the storebought cliche thing wins the "contest" at work every year. One of these years I'll have to show up to that thing....but then I'ld have to be at work on Halloween...
I made a sheet metal car body to go over me (legs hanging down) complete with working headlights, sound system playing the music from the movie, bouncing wheels on elastic springs, the correct license plate numbers (from the movie) a darkly tinted windshield so I could scare some with my make up face close to the window with a flashlight on myself.
I won nothing with all this effort because nobody but me , I guess, had seen the movie "Christine" yet!
I got comments like:"Oh, you work in a body shop?" (No sheet metal shop-furnaces)
"Are you supposed to be a 57 Chevy?" Other cars had tailfins too!
Like Plymouths!
As far as the winners who shouldn't be winning it is a gripe of mine when a bar has a costume contest and their best customer wins because he will be giving them back all the money as he drinks and buys for everyone, and they knew it was him because his naked face was sticking out of his costume, no make up!
going to the bar in your costume? Get ready to be frustrated.
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I have had it a few times in the past, and was wondering if anyone else dealt with it, what that costume was, and how you replied to the unenlightened masses?
It depends... sometimes I wasn't really dressed up much, because the plan was to go out dancing and I hate getting too hot on the dance floor. I can't blame anyone who didn't know I was a Victorian Pooka but if someone had guessed, I would have given them a cookie. Still when I said what I was people for the most got it. In that crowd people know what pookas are, yay.
And there was a little devilish costume, I wore a shirt says, "Sin like you mean it" and I was wearing horns, red and black stripe stockings... I thought it was obvious, but I guess it wasn't obvious enough. People said, "Are you dressed up?" ha. Kinda funny when you think about it.
Last year I was a dark fairy though... I mean complete with black glittery wings, pretty dress, etc, and people asked what I was supposed to be... I thought it could not have been more obvious. I didn't get pics. Woe. Same with when I was an Angel of Death, with hair styled and in a gown to match this angel but with less spectacular wings.... no one got it. :shrug:
I found pics of the pooka and the devilish outfits, and attached them. (heh, nevermind I get nervous about posting my pics online so I took em down.)
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I tend to get more depressed each year with the level of imagination of the TOTers. I have several costumes that I have reused to various effects. The last time couple of times I have brought out my demons, I hear "Hey Darth Maul!". Last year when I did an earth wizard, everyone when "Hey Gandolf!". It's sad that you need an educational packet on your back to describe who you are... gone are the RPG days where you had to use imagination to envision the scene before you!
Usually I try to vary each year, but it keeps getting harder to spark the imagination of today's youth. I tend to lean more towards the creep factor than in your face gore.
It seems if an idea isn't spoon-fed from a movie or store bought, it is a struggle for most people to figure out what it is anymore. A personal gripe of mine is when did Halloween turn into a tramp parade? My wife pretty much refuses to participate because everyone around here tends to go for the "sexy" outfits (including middle school students) and there is very little creativity left.
I've had a couple moments like that... I like when they have to think about who I am. One year was Wilson from Home Improvement (had a fence suspended in front of me the whole night. Next I was Bill from SchoolHouse Rock (I'm just a Bill, yes I'm only a Bill). The worse guess was that I was a tampon.
I tend to get more depressed each year with the level of imagination of the TOTers. I have several costumes that I have reused to various effects. The last time couple of times I have brought out my demons, I hear "Hey Darth Maul!". Last year when I did an earth wizard, everyone when "Hey Gandolf!". It's sad that you need an educational packet on your back to describe who you are... gone are the RPG days where you had to use imagination to envision the scene before you!
Well, to be perfectly fair, I don't know what an "Earth Wizard" is supposed to look like, and when I search it, Google Image Search brings up a couple pictures of Gandolf in the first two pages...maybe that one was a little more obscure than you thought.
But look on the bright side, they could have called you Dumbledore (or however you spell the Harry Potter one) like they did to my son when he wanted to be Gandolf
One year I was Elizabeth Bathory-dress with elizabethan collar, cup of blood, etc. Everyone just thought I was a weird vampire.
One year I wore a jumpsuit, I ironed the name of an exterminator on the back, a name tag on the front and I made a ball cap with the exterminator name on it. Then I wore a mask that looked like a bug with antenna's. I was a human exterminating bug. Everyone thought I was an alien!
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Woe. Same with when I was an Angel of Death, with hair styled and in a gown to match 
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