What is the best Halloween costume you have ever seen or worn?

[Boomer]

We are not invited to a Halloween party so I do not have to come up with a costume.

That is a good thing because I am not good at making stuff........

The best I could do is to have Mr. Boomer wear khakis, a red polo shirt, and a name tag that says "Jake" and I could wear pajamas and a robe and carry an old phone receiver with the cord dangling and try to have a suspicious look on my face. -- I am sure that has been done by now, but I have to say that I thought of it when that ad first started running on television because it would be such an easy, comfortable costume. And I know my limitations. But I really like seeing truly creative costumes.

Any fun memories of Halloween costumes you have seen or worn?

[kittygilchrist]

Mother was a seamstress. Whatever she made always won the contest.
It was a bought from China costume that led to my nickname...Miss Kitty of Gunsmoke.

[redwitch]

I have three I truly love to wear. First is the Mean Widdle Kid. Torn jeans, backwards baseball cap, tshirt half tucked in, bag I'd marbles tied to belt, frog and slingshot in pocket, bubblegum. Smear some chocolate on your face and you're good to go. Then there's Enud from Ioway, an Hawaiian tourist. Just find the tackiest, most garish outfit Goodwill has, add a thick hairnet, curler for the bangs and you're good to go. Last is The Shadow. Black pants, black long-sleeved short, black caps and gloves, black mask or black face. Follow people around and be their shadow, never behind anyone for more than thirty seconds. Loads of fun and gets some good giggles.

The best costume I ever saw was definitely the most obscene. I volunteered to help out ar the Exotic-Erotic Ball one year. One guy came fully nude on roller skates with a heavy string tied around his private parts ..... A PULL TOY! Hysterical but definitely shocking, but so were most of the costumes. (And, no, I didn't come in costume. And, yes, I really did want to run away. I truly had no clue for what I was volunteering.

[Taltarzac725]

I have three I truly love to wear. First is the Mean Widdle Kid. Torn jeans, backwards baseball cap, tshirt half tucked in, bag I'd marbles tied to belt, frog and slingshot in pocket, bubblegum. Smear some chocolate on your face and you're good to go. Then there's Enud from Ioway, an Hawaiian tourist. Just find the tackiest, most garish outfit Goodwill has, add a thick hairnet, curler for the bangs and you're good to go. Last is The Shadow. Black pants, black long-sleeved short, black caps and gloves, black mask or black face. Follow people around and be their shadow, never behind anyone for more than thirty seconds. Loads of fun and gets some good giggles.

The best costume I ever saw was definitely the most obscene. I volunteered to help out ar the Exotic-Erotic Ball one year. One guy came fully nude on roller skates with a heavy string tied around his private parts ..... A PULL TOY! Hysterical but definitely shocking, but so were most of the costumes. (And, no, I didn't come in costume. And, yes, I really did want to run away. I truly had no clue for what I was volunteering.

Sounds like a normal Halloween at some San Francisco law firms!

[rosygail]

Hubby and I went as The Coneheads! I found the rubber heads on line! I made us their little capelets and off we went to the party. We won first prize!

[mixsonci]

One couple at a party I went to came as Q-tips. Great costumes. They were both quite tall and very thin, so that helped a lot.

[redwitch]

Sounds like a normal Halloween at some San Francisco law firms!

I never even knew of a law firm in The City that had a Halloween party, less alone something that compared to the Exotic-Erotic.

[Taltarzac725]

I never even knew of a law firm in The City that had a Halloween party, less alone something that compared to the Exotic-Erotic.

No Halloween parties at San Francisco law firms? I must know a different group of law students at the University of Minnesota. Many liked to party. A few ended up in San Francisco. I kind of got ostracized because of the 224 613 Project by some of these old classmates from the U of MN Law Class of 1989. So, I do not really have any credible information about what the SF law firms' parties are really like. I had gone to a few parties with fellow Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners including one at a woman's apartment who is the head partner now at a very well regarded Immigration Firm in SF in 2015. This was in Minneapolis around 1988. She did not want to have anything to do with me when I lived in Rohnert Park, CA from late 1991 through 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_Erotic_Ball

When dating a fellow Information Access Company employee-- Kathleen M.,-- who was a member of the Oakland Chorus, I did spend a very interesting Thanksgiving Party with some members of the Oakland Chorus around 1984. We saw Amadeus in a downtown SF movie theater then went to some place in Oakland where we were the only straight couple.

Just wanted to add that the head partner at the SF Law Firm when I knew her in Minneapolis was a very smart, attractive, and quite nice person. I had had a lot of classes with her and was with her in Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners through two Academic Years and a two Summers.

I did mention my experiences with the Michelle Mitchell 2-24-1976 murder investigation and the like to some of my fellow Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners Student Attorneys. They even threw a 2-24 birthday party of sorts and tried to get me to come up and sing with the band around 2-24-1989. I still remember this event and was quite thankful for this experience. I did not get up and sing though. I went to Reno, Nevada-- paid for by the University of Minnesota Law Library-- while I was finishing up the WESTLAW cataloging Project. This was to the American Association of Law Libraries annual Summer Convention. After going back there that Summer of 1989, it was very hard to get away from my memories of the Michelle Mitchell murder investigation which I did of course share with the law librarians from the University of Minnesota Law Library who were attending that convention with me. This case had been front page Reno newspaper news from February 25, 1976 through 1984 or so.