The time between posts seems to be getting longer and longer, and then when I Do actually post, it's usually something boring. So, I've been racking my brain to try and think of something clever to come up with. So, I thought that since the Halloween season is coming up, I would tell some more "White Trash Tales" about our family and our past halloween costumes.
Let's see, I think I'll start with myself. I've been everything from an Angel to a ballerina to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. I think the most white trash costume I ever had was when my mother desperately tried to make me into a damozel. Let's see, I wore an old gown of hers from something she had attended, (which was a bright fuscia color) and then she put this plant holder thingy on my head, and wrapped it under my chin with pink tule. And of course the pink tule flowed from the top of the plant holder. To top it off, to keep myself nice and warm, I wore a black turtle neck under the dress (which showed VERY bad.) Other than the damozel costume, I also once portrayed Cleopatra with a foil headpiece and foil necklace, earrings and arm band. Oh yeah, baby. It was tight.
Fun times....
The best costumes have to be awarded to my brother's though. One of them was a barbarian with a fumanchu (don't know how to spell that) Then one year, after a recent accident at the chemical lab in Sacramento (where we lived at the time) the boys wore mechanic/work jumpsuits and covered them in the stuff from the glow sticks and so they looked all radio active and my mom put scars and scabs and made their faces look really weird and they went as guys involved in that. (It was quite a popular event, people just ate them up!)
Last but not least, the epidemy of white trash costumes and the highest of all rewards goes to my brother, Benjamin. I guess, running out of ideas (although this one was strategically planned) when he was about 10, Ben and my mother, the mastermind, cut up an old refrigerator box, made a hole for his head, painted his face and hands gray, and glued a ton of lint which had been saved up for the past few months or so, added the word "Maytag" above his head on the cardboard box, and yes.....he went as a Lint Trap.
That one definitely deserves the award.
Hope you enjoyed.
(I'll try and locate some pictures to post on here...)
Until next time,
-Natalie
