Do you dress up for Halloween?

Depending on the weather I'll probably join the parade somewhere along the route. I'll definitely dress down(?) and hang out with friends in some bar or restaurant down there. Since the parade is so corporate and a business now they won't show the nudity on TV.
https://halloween-nyc.com/
I haven't been to the NYC parade in several years, but remember my first one in the late 1980's. The parade kicked off with a limo surrounded by about a half dozen people dressed as secret service agents jogging on both sides of it. And waving from the sunroof of the car was "Barbara Bush", aka a close lookalike dressed in drag. Too bad the parade got more commercial and mainstream in the ensuing years.
 
This is the costume I put together this year. Sadly I didn't have time to sew anything. I also have a leather cuff/wrap bracelet I like to wear, an enamel flower/butterfly necklace with leather cord and triple brass chains on it, and a pair of wire wings I made a few years ago. But, also, this is just an outfit I would wear on the regular, lol.

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This weekend Ive been treated to some fantastic sights in the street and on public transport. One girl was dressed up as a character I recognized from a rather obscure erotic video game.


I used to go full Dracula every Halloween and scare the crap out of people. But I havent done that for about 10 years. I miss it.
@nice90sguy,
Alas, my dear colleague, no. I do have an awesome outfit but it was scaring the women and children so I got banned from wearing it...! Ahhh well, it was fun while it lasted!
Now I just wear a "Punisher" tee shirt!
Respectfully,
D.
 
No, I probably won't dress up. But I did buy a pumpkin this year and I'm thinking I'll carve a dinosaur.
 
Well, since Halloween is my birthday, I kinda celebrate every year. XD I didn't dress up before, just went places, but since I've had my kids, I do a family theme most years. This year, we are all members of The Hollow Knight. We have a 3D printer so we made masks for all 4 of us. Son is Ghost, daughter is Hornet, dad is the Knight, and I'm going to be Grim as a drag queen. XD Personally, I don't know much about the game, just what my kids say, and I guess Grim is supposed to be a guy, but we don't follow those rules these days, ha!
Gender bending characters is a long honored cosplay tradition. Own it! 😸
 
I don't dress up, I stay at home & give out candy.
But I have fun with it. I tell the little girls dressed as princesses how scary they look. I'll tell a kid dressed as Spider-Man, "Batman, you're the best!" and ask them if they can fly or shoot lasers from their eyes.
With teens, I'll just ask them what they're supposed to be, because I seriously do not know. I'm O L D.
 
Well, since Halloween is my birthday, I kinda celebrate every year. XD I didn't dress up before, just went places, but since I've had my kids, I do a family theme most years. This year, we are all members of The Hollow Knight. We have a 3D printer so we made masks for all 4 of us. Son is Ghost, daughter is Hornet, dad is the Knight, and I'm going to be Grim as a drag queen. XD Personally, I don't know much about the game, just what my kids say, and I guess Grim is supposed to be a guy, but we don't follow those rules these days, ha!
Well then happy birthday to you!🎊🎉🎉🎊🎈🎈🎈
 
We once had a local Hallows Eve tradition that had been going for a couple of hundred years, but it was destroyed by some foreign cultural import which is actually illegal here but nobody ever gets prosecuted.
 
Not quite that horrific. The local tradition was a mass walk from the church where one of ten convicted witches was buried to the top of the hill that gives that trial its name.
 
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