Halloween
costumes for 2006
Brooke Tacker, posted Oct. 16, 2006
From
Pimp-enstein to a promiscuous dinosaur, MU students have many
ideas for upcoming Halloween costumes.
The custom of dressing-up for Halloween has a long history
in the holiday. Oct. 31 was first celebrated 2,000 years ago
as the day before the Celtic New Year. Celtics believed that
on this night the ghosts of the dead would return to earth
causing trouble and the boundary between the living and the
dead was distorted, according to History
of Halloween Web site. The Celtics wore costumes, typically
of animal skins and heads, to tell each other’s fortunes
during the events of the evening.
Costumes have come a long way in the past two centuries. They
are no longer just animal heads and skins.
“I was cotton candy one year,” MU student Mallory
Perryman said. “I stuck cotton balls all over some old
clothes. Everyone had to keep asking what I was!”
Other students have gone more extreme year after year. Lucas
Naeger claimed to have a tendency to cross-dress on Halloween.
He has been a Barbie, a witch and a girl from Uganda (while
studying abroad in South Africa) for a few examples.
“I won a costume contest when I was 12,” Naeger
said. “I went as Reba McIntire and wore a red wig, a
white dress with red sequins, a white cowboy hat and my cousin’s
high heels.”
Creativity also seems to be a hot spot on choosing a costume.
“The most creative costume I have ever seen was last
year this woman dressed as ‘cloudy with a chance of
rain,” Gotcha Costume Shop employee Ashley Counts said.
“She wore a white, fluffy prom dress and carried around
a spray bottle.”
While explaining this costume, Counts was interrupted by a
fellow employee asking Counts to help her zip the long leather
dress costume she was wearing. Gotcha employees wear costumes
when working as long as they do not get in the way.
Another creative idea came from MU student Candice Crawford.
“I cut out the bottom of a real trash can and wore it
as a suit,” she said. “Then I taped a trash bag
to the top to make it look like it was hanging over and wore
the lid as a hat. I even taped pieces of trash to the outside.”
Crawford’s friend, MU student Jeff Beeson, said he was
a tennis ball one year.
Some trends Counts said she has seen year after year included
pirates, Playboy bunnies, flappers and the couple, Zorro and
a señorita.
