(Hilariously, the cat ears freaked Tiny right the heck out. He got all low to the ground and his tail puffed up to about 3 times its normal size while he looked at me with wide eyes. I kept trying to freak him out, though, so now he's kind of used to the ears. He still doesn't like them and stares at me until I take them off, but his tail doesn't puff up anymore.)
The point is, my Halloween costumes of late have been either completely half-a**ed, or nonexistent.
On Friday I was IMing with a friend of mine and she sent me a link to a discount costume shop. I immediately started going through the costumes, looking for pretty things. I'm kind of annoyed generally by the whole slutty costume phenomenon, which seems to get worse every year. I saw a costume for a slutty Harry Potter this year. What?! That doesn't even make sense.
Anyway, I like the pretty costumes. When I was in high school, I actually rented a Southern belle costume one year. The hoop skirt was a major drag to sit at a desk in, but I felt lovely and all day long the cute outgoing boys (you know, the ones who were frat boys in college and are now lawyers or finance types) would do things like take my gloved hand and kiss it while complimenting me in a fake Southern drawl. So that was fun.
Friday I bought this costume:
And this costume, which I hoped would match a pretty headpiece I bought on a lark several years ago when I went to my one and only Renaissance Faire (it was a hoot):
And they just arrived! All weekend long I felt kind of silly about buying them, but now I'm so excited to go home and try them on after work. I may need to wear them even when it's not Halloween.
