This year I went as myself.
In 1992.
Annotations: One button says “I Color Outside The Lines,” the other is Hothead Paisan‘s cat Chicken saying “Oh Purr.” The T-shirt is from Clarion 1991, and it reads: “Nobody noticed the whistling man with the chainsaw. They were all looking at the transvestite with the flamethrower,” a genuine sentence from a genuine critique session, as some readers of this site can attest. The rest of the outfit consists of fatigue shorts and beat-up combat boots. If I could’ve, I would’ve carried a boom box playing nothing but Concrete Blonde, Tori Amos, and the Indigo Girls…
(Note that I don’t dress entirely unlike this now. But I am slightly less prone to wear ludicrously oversized flannel shirts.)
If you were going to dress as a past (or future) version of yourself, what would it look like?
Jeff
October 31, 2007 at 9:38 pmOddly enough, the past version of me wouldn’t look all that different than the past version of you (well, a bit taller maybe), but I would have made sure that the bandana on my head was color-coordinated with the bandanas on my wrist and ankle (not to mention also with my flannel shirt).
Jeff C.
November 1, 2007 at 12:14 pmHmmm…The high school me. Jeans , t-shirt – most likely with a comic book hero on it, button down dress shirt unbuttoned over it, all wrinkled.
Actually it wouldn’t be all that different now, except that the shirt would be buttoned…and my hair wouldn’t be as big.
This year I went as Clark Kent.
Joseph McBee
November 2, 2007 at 10:39 amI would dress as the middle school me on the tragic day that I wore white parachute pants that you could see straight through to my tighty whities, with a black fish net shirt and no t-shirt on underneath it. Every time it got cold my nipples would poke out through the holes in the fish net, then as I would walk down the halls I thoguht the shirt was going to saw my nipples off.