The best costume I saw last week as a family which all dressed the exact same, same t-shirts and same shorts but the important part - had one leader with a flag. My wife and I both laughed out loud - if we are able to ever go back to a
MNSSHP - that may be our family costume. Only Disney folks would get it...
I saw that posted somewhere. From the front, they weren't the same, but it was obvious that they were message board people. Each person had a different phrase on the front, like refillable mug re-user, bratty cheerleader, etc. (not those *exact* words, but the same concept) That made it even more hilarious.
What in the world is inappropriate about this young woman's costume?
For me, it's the thigh highs, and *especially* the bows on the front. People wear those things for sex appeal. Stockings (for garters) and thigh highs are a million times sexier than nylons or full tights.
Now I'm sure the costume people include them because they are much more size-less than a full set of tights would be. But most people would see the costume with the thigh highs with bows as a whole lot sexier than if the person wore proper tights.
That's not even close to what I meant...interesting you came away with that oh, and btw, I watch very little tv actually.
Take "terrorism" as an example; when I was a kid (right after the dinosaurs roamed the earth
) the cars in people's driveways weren't locked, in fact the keys were left in the ignition. The doors to people's home were rarely locked - in case a neighbor needed to come in and use the phone. That all started to change went (as I see it) the behavior of society started to change to include (with frequency) things like stealing....that was/is a form of terrorism....kids of all ages would walk to school alone, would go out and play unsupervised - then the terrorism of possibilities of those actions took over and very little of that happens nowadays.
Meh. My mom was born in '44 and didn't live in the world you lived in. My grandparents were born much earlier and didn't live in that day.
My mom's group (hippies) thought they were creating an idealistic world, and then, as she said, Charles Manson destroyed the idea that hippies were peaceful, calm, happy people, so there was no area of innocence in the world at all.
Going to school...any thought of it being stressfree, IF you had that feeling, was destroyed by the Chowchilla schoolbus kidnapping/hijacking.
etc etc etc.
The peaceful times were a very very BRIEF period of time ONLY in a very small portion of the world (the parts not under continuous occupancy by hostile forces, or living in brutal poverty of course), and most of the people of my mom's generation *that I have had real conversations with* have told me that THAT was perpetuated by TV. So TV might be the devil, but it's the opposite of how you feel; Leave it to Beaver showed a time that people wanted, but it never, or hardly ever, existed in reality.
Heck, go back to Upton Sinclair, go read your Roman History...the sweet innocent kids are kids times...pretty much never existed. Human nature has always been the same, and humans aren't perfect and never have been.
I was there last night. I saw costumes very similar to the the one below. I agree that it may be pushing the envelope a little, but it didn't really reveal anything. I was just jealous that I could never pull off something like that...even in my younger days!
If someone were to photoshop full tights on that costume, instead of those thigh highs, it would appear quite a bit different, IMO.
My cousin and her husband had what I felt were the BEST costumes on the 13th. They were Indiana Jones and Marion. They looked fabulous! And they were fully covered, all limbs entirely covered by fabric. It took them awhile to find all the pieces for those costumes, and it was well worth it! That's the sort of creativity I think people should use for costumes... (and I don't have that creativity, so I rarely dress up. My costumes are generally name-related, like the devil horns and tail I wore with a blue dress once, I was the Good Golly Miss Molly/Devil With a Blue Dress mix-up song you often hear....but you only get those if you know my name...)
High school sweethearts, eh?
