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Last Minute Halloween Costume Alterations

The Uncool Dad — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:29:09 +0000

K1 has been planning on being a werewolf for Halloween since May. He’s had his heart set on being the scariest kid out trick-or-treating. We found a really cool costume that I thought could use minimal embellishment to make it super awesome.

It is the costume pictured here which included the head, hands, and ripped shirt.

About a week before Halloween we got a letter home from K1’s principal. He asked that for the Halloween parade at school, all costumes be kept “tasteful” with no blood, gore, or weapons of any sort. Many districts around here have canceled Halloween at school altogether so we figured this was a fair compromise to keep it in our school.

So the question of the week – was this costume tasteful? There is no blood. No gore. No weapons except for the awesome looking teeth.

We debated whether the werewolf would be the “real Halloween costume” and we needed a second costume to wear to school. A mummy? A ninja (with no nun-chucks or throwing stars)? A super hero?

No decisions yet.

On Wednesday, we decided to do a dress rehearsal as I was very concerned that he wouldn’t be able to see very well though the mask. He tried everything on and surprisingly he could see very well. But went he looked at himself in the mirror he shrieked! “Too scary!” he yelled.

By super-brave kindergartner was scared by his own costume. So now what?

I grabbed my scissors and went to work on the mask. My wife sat him down with some makeup. And this was the result. Kind of scary. Extremely cute. Tasteful. And the best werewolf in town!

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The Uncool Dad — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:37:47 +0000

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Tonight I took my 6yo son shopping for his Halloween costume. Our first stop was The Halloween Store, which is temporarily occupying the Circuit City that used to be there. I suspect that on November 1 it will become The Christmas Store.

The Halloween Store is set up in sections and as soon as you walk in, you are in the middle of costumes for women. It seems that women’s costumes are broken down into five categories: slutty cheerleaders; slutty doctors/nurses; slutty teachers; slutty cops; and sluts.

It took some effort to get my son to leave this section but we made it to the kids section and looked through all the great monster costumes. He decided months ago that he wanted to bea werewolf and he found himself an excellent costume. I tried my hardest to convince him to be Teen Wolf, complete with a Beavers basketball uniform, but he vetoed that and our werewolf has tattered jeans and a flannel shirt.

In order to make it to the cash register we had to walk through the girls costumes. There were the standard Disney princesses and few girl superheroes which were pretty cool. But I was shocked to also see a bunch of costumes for 10-year-olds that were … ummmm … slutty.

Red Riding Hood, witches, hippies, vampires, and angels. Thigh high stockings, stilletos, miniskirts, and bare midriffs. I picked one up to check that this was really for girls and indeed it said ages 10-14. But I put it down quickly in case anyone thought I was a pervert. And I definitely wasn’t going to try and sneak a photo.

Seriously, what the hell?

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