My parents and their friends didn't care much about Halloween or Halloween costumes. They didn't dress up at all. Although they took us trick-or-treating. I always asked myself why grown-ups behave that way when I was a child. Since I was a teenager I felt in love with costumes and spooky dresses. I liked to dress up as villains from scary films like Jason, Freddy Krueger or Leatherface from the Texas chainsaw massacre. I had my fun scaring little kids with these kind of looks but it didn't take long until I realized that they weren't very original or special at all.
When I was around 17 I found out for myself that I liked couple costumes quite much. Of course that was the time when I had my first real relationship and I was deep in love. So what could be a better sign that we are together than dressing up with the same costumes for Halloween. Some of our friends made fun of us and thought it was a little bit childish but they changed their opinion when they realized that many adults do just the same. So suddenly we weren't the only ones that entered the next Halloween party in costumes for couples. Back then many of our friends thought that it was a funny thing and we started to think about costume ideas all together long before the parties began.
The following year couple costumes were the hit in my circle of friends and even their siblings. A whole gang of people was going to the Halloween parties of the following years in Halloween costumes that complemented each other. Occasionally we were in pairs but most of the times we appeared as complete groups of several people. We had all kinds of costumes. Sometimes we dressed up like characters of the fairy tales, sometimes like TV or movie figures but the most fun we had when we all went as superheros from our favourite comic magazines. In any case we had a lot of fun these days and none of us has forgotten the Halloween parties we had then.
We were all teenagers and went to school. We didn't have much money but we had enough free time to make our costumes by ourselves. Some of us did pretty well in crafting the costumes and we all shared our skills to help each other getting all together. It really became a teamwork project that began several weeks before Halloween was near. Some accessories we bought from Halloween stores because they were to complicated to produce. After the second year we had several costumes that we could combine to new ones so that there was a good supply to create fresh costumes from the previous Halloween costumes.
Lavinia LaSalle is a free author.
She is writing on several topics of her personal interest and is mainly focused on fashion. Halloween is the greatest party time for her and she loves costumes and dressing up.
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