Halloween
Year Of The Mittens
“I made ‘mittens’ attached by a string for each of my daughters to wear in the mid-90s for Halloween.”
(submitted by IG @kimkelley1960)
Baby Pumpkin
“This is my friend’s husband inside a pumpkin bounce house. Nothing better than a family outing where you see a live breech birth.”
(submitted by Kelly)
Smoked
“My mom was always good at making Halloween costumes no matter what I wanted to be. She asked 8 year old me what I wanted to be so I said ‘a cigarette!” She got to work and made me a Marlboro, lit with ashes at the top. Needless to say, the school banned any cigarette related costumes the next year.”
(submitted by Sofia)
Welcome to Pumpkin Land
“My brother at Pumpkin Land in the early 90s and Big Bird looks hungry.”
(submitted by IG @peanut_butter_jilly)
Milk Of Magnesia
“I took pride in creating my own costumes. I thought this costume would generate a lot of laughs. In retrospect, constipation is more funny to 9 year-olds than the population as a whole.”
(submitted by Quinn)
Happy As A Clam
“My Halloween costume in 1992: spaghetti and clam sauce. There’s a big plexiglass fork on the side sticking up. My dad dribbled real clam juice all over me so no one would get too close at the middle school dance.”
(submitted by IG @chimericalwhip)
Sharp Objects
“Florida, Halloween 1980. Me and my dad. My parents took a very liberal approach to the question of whether babies should be allowed to carve their own pumpkins.”
(submitted by IG @pandts)
Justice League
“My parents took me to a Halloween autograph session with ‘Justice League’ superheroes. Now that I look at it 30 years later I find it quite creepy, particularly Spider-Man.”
(submitted by Paul)
Pedestrian Crossing
“For the 1980 school fete in Derby, UK my mom had me dress up as a road sign.”
(submitted by Debra)
