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GREEN_BODY_PAINT

                                             November   8, 2004
It used to seem tremendously                 September 26, 2013
limiting to me that Halloween
costumes were supposed to be                           (Originally
recognizable.  I used to just                           to alt.gothic)
go for effects that I thought
were interesting.

Like: Let's see, I'll lace up some
of this black vinyl as a top, wear        More specifically, (1) take
those tights, and cover all exposed       sheet of vinyl fabric, cut
flesh with green make-up.                 a hole for head, with v-neck
                                          (2) throw it over your shoulders
Then I got people staring at me           (3) pierce the sides so that
curiously all night long going            it can be laced up and cinched
"The Jolly Green Giant?".                 tight.

   Wearing wrap-around
   dark shades?                           I remember thinking through
                                          the color scheme, laboriously:
   Some people.                           black was a given in the
                                          mid-80s, with orange was
                                          too trite for halloween,
                                          with red had been new waved
                                          to death... but green?  Yes,
                                          perfect.
                                                            BLACK_AND_GREEN

    I now regard the "cover yourself with body
    paint" idea as a rookie. It seems like a
    nice idea, before you realize how hard it
    is to get an even application of the goop;
    and then you have to struggle to keep the
    goop from getting messed up and getting all
    over the furniture.  I imagine that there's
    higher quality goop out there these days--
    cock-sucking body paint?-- but even so
    it's more hassle than it's worth.
                                                      EMERALD_LAND

          But notably a lot of burning
          man-oriented costumery is like this...

          supersnail has done some
          really good photography
          of things in this direction:

             http://www.supersnail.com/bm01/set6/small_index.html


    I have a similar feeling about masks:
    they seem neat at first, then you
    realize how much trouble they can be,
    and ultimately how isolating they are.


         Maybe the question is "Are you 'dressing-up'
         like something else, or are you dressing to
         reveal a higher/inner/alternate self?"





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