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I was just looking at the flier that came in the m...

2009-09-28T02:44:34.811-05:00

I was just looking at the flier that came in the mail for the Halloween store, and I could NOT BELIEVE the costumes they had on there for young girls. Jesus --- they had them looking like little prostitutes. The Geisha costume (besides being wildly inaccurate) had a SHORT skirt, shorter than anyone should wear, let alone a 15 year old. Just gross.

I was Harpo from the Marx Brothers for quite a num...

2009-09-26T18:05:47.000-05:00

I was Harpo from the Marx Brothers for quite a number of years. My sister then inherited the costume - rubber chicken, horn and all.

In 7th or 8th grade I was a sexy pirate, but it wa...

2009-09-22T22:24:21.755-05:00

In 7th or 8th grade I was a sexy pirate, but it was sexy since I got permission to wear fishnet stockings. But I did sew my costume myself!

This may be the reason why, in my family, Hallowee...

2009-09-22T14:46:30.946-05:00

This may be the reason why, in my family, Halloween costumes were never purchased. They were either made by my grandmother, or pieced together by me or my mother from all the costumes we had at home (my parents were into theatre), depending on what I wanted to be that year.

When I was a toddler, I was a daisy, dressed all in green with gloves made to look like leaves and my face painted into a daisy, and the following year I was Little Orphan Annie. When I was five, I was Wonder Woman, and when I was ten I was a purple Crayola crayon (complete with a purple cone-hat). Other times I was Guinevere from Camelot, Laura Engalls from Little House on the Prairie, and the Phantom from Phantom of the Opera (for which I made a mask out of paper mache).

As you probably know, I never suffered from gender stereotypes in my house. My parents simply would not allow it. They couldn't control the outside world, but they could at least control what went on inside their own house.