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[mrv3000]

I was in the mood to look at Halloween costumes this weekend. They want me to pay how much for something that cheaply made?? Everything looks like the seams would start fraying after only a couple of hours. Also, why is it that 98% of women's costumes look like you should be out on the street corner? It's not just Alice in Wonderland, it's slutty!Alice in Wonderland. There was a "Marie Antoinette" costume that had some beads on the top and a 6" skirt. But hey, if you didn't want to go the ultra slutty route, you could always be a cow.

Something tells me I'm not in their demographic.





Peter: Miss Vane, will you marry me? Or failing that, will you come with me to Darley's garage and commune with Mr. Polwhistle?

Harriet: I will.

Peter: Let us be gone.

[they walk together to the door, Peter suddenly stops]


Peter: What?

Harriet: The latter.




I love the last shot. Harriet's expression is "he's such a dweeb" and Peter looks like he's just been kicked in the puppy. Edward Petherbridge did a great job with the character - juggling Peter being hopelessly in love with Harriet without it being pathetic.

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[kynaii.livejournal.com]

I found my cap and gown from when I graduated. I'm using that this year, I paid $60 for it 9 years ago and only wore it once. I might as well get some more use out of it.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oooh! You know, I'm not even sure where my high school and/or college caps and robes are. Hmmm.

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

You could be a fistualted cow!

[nandamai]

HAHAHAHAHA.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

*SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'm going to need therapy now.

[hwconundrum.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the way Halloween has gone recently - people don't even dress as scary things any more! Unless the whole 'trashy female costume' thing is actually an incredibly deep and meaningful comment on society's fear of sex/sexual taboo... somehow I kinda doubt it.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Maybe once a person gets to those adult sizes, every woman's secret fantasy is to be a prostitute. I obviously need to shift my worldview.

[hwconundrum.livejournal.com]

I think the real answer is that every MAN secretly fantasizes that women secretly fantasize about being prostitutes. ;) On a slightly more serious note, I do wonder who designs these costumes sometimes.

Thank goodness I'm a nerd, last year I was a miscellaneous Stargate SG-1 person.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I think the real answer is that every MAN secretly fantasizes that women secretly fantasize about being prostitutes. ;) On a slightly more serious note, I do wonder who designs these costumes sometimes.

Probably people who want to be able to sell the outfits at more times than just Halloween. More money that way.

Thank goodness I'm a nerd, last year I was a miscellaneous Stargate SG-1 person.

HEH!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I made the mistake of buying a ready-made Marilyn costume a couple years ago. The seam split right down the back (right over my butt!) after two hours, and I wound up spending most of a workday held together with packing tape on the inside. Never. Again.

OTOH, I have a really nice purple velour hooded cloak that's totally a party-store costume. It's decent fabric and perfectly respectably constructed. The only thing I don't like is that the edges are serged instead of hemmed, but once I line it (like I've been meaning to do for years), that will be taken care of. So I guess you never know. Just have to look at the inside.

There's plenty of non-slutty stuff around here, of varying degrees of quality. Maybe it's something about SoCal?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I made the mistake of buying a ready-made Marilyn costume a couple years ago. The seam split right down the back (right over my butt!) after two hours, and I wound up spending most of a workday held together with packing tape on the inside. Never. Again.

This is what most of the stuff looked like - and they want me to pay $50 for it? I don't think so.

OTOH, I have a really nice purple velour hooded cloak that's totally a party-store costume. It's decent fabric and perfectly respectably constructed. The only thing I don't like is that the edges are serged instead of hemmed, but once I line it (like I've been meaning to do for years), that will be taken care of. So I guess you never know. Just have to look at the inside.

Sounds like the exception to the rule from what I saw.

There's plenty of non-slutty stuff around here, of varying degrees of quality. Maybe it's something about SoCal?

Maybe? Yeesh. It was a pretty big Halloween store with lots of costumes, but there were a grand total of two outfits where the bottom was longer than your butt. I don't think I accidentally wandered into a Fredericks... ;D

[millylicious.livejournal.com]

I'm a bloody Cheerleader. That's slutty, I guess. With extra gore on top.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Ewwwwww! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm a bloody waitress. Not slutty, though. Actually, not that bloody, either. I need a suitable icon.

[goodtoast.livejournal.com]

UGH. I know how you feel about Halloween costumes. I'm planning a party for the girl I nanny for, and need a costume. My original thought was to buy a hanbok, but I looked online and they're $500 O.o Too much for something I could only wear on Halloween, or to meet my (non-existant) Korean boyfriend's parents.

Everything else is far too slutty. I'm all for wearing pretty dresses and costuming, but I'd like to retain a little of my dignity, okay? Someone should start a costume company for girls and women who don't want to be the freezing on Halloween!!!

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

If you were in Southern California and could fit into a size six, I'd seriously be tempted to offer to loan you *my* hanbok. We got them when we went to Korea when I was 14 but not being Korean myself, I didn't have any other excuse to wear it and now it's too small. :-/ (I'm guessing by your icon, though, that you're in Washington State?)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

UGH. I know how you feel about Halloween costumes. I'm planning a party for the girl I nanny for, and need a costume. My original thought was to buy a hanbok, but I looked online and they're $500 O.o Too much for something I could only wear on Halloween, or to meet my (non-existant) Korean boyfriend's parents.

Yeah, that's just a liiiittle too much for a Halloween costume. (Although really cool.)

Everything else is far too slutty. I'm all for wearing pretty dresses and costuming, but I'd like to retain a little of my dignity, okay? Someone should start a costume company for girls and women who don't want to be the freezing on Halloween!!!

That'd be so nice. There's has to be a middle ground between slut and cow.

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm trolling thrift and vintage clothing stores, putting together a costume from the pieces I find. I'm either going to do Sarah Jane or Beth Calavicci from Quantum Leap: I've got both costumes started for conventions next year, so which one I'll wear for Halloween really depends on which one I *finish* first. ;-)

And man, I need to rewatch Lord Peter. I'm still on my Campion kick, but I'm almost out of episodes and I think I've already read all the books Amanda appears in: eep! So, the only logical thing to do is to move on to a different grand dame, no? ;-)

I'm also thinking of starting a fanfic archive for detective couples. Whether or not anyone would actually submit fanfic to it, however, I have no idea. *g*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm trolling thrift and vintage clothing stores, putting together a costume from the pieces I find. I'm either going to do Sarah Jane or Beth Calavicci from Quantum Leap: I've got both costumes started for conventions next year, so which one I'll wear for Halloween really depends on which one I *finish* first. ;-)

That's gotta be the best way to go. Sarah Jane would be cool! Although for me that would just be work clothes. :D

And man, I need to rewatch Lord Peter. I'm still on my Campion kick, but I'm almost out of episodes and I think I've already read all the books Amanda appears in: eep! So, the only logical thing to do is to move on to a different grand dame, no? ;-)

Sounds like it! I've really got to get the Tommy and Tuppence videos, but I've been *really* lazy about turning in Netflix DVDs. Plus, I've recently got the urge to run through the West Wing next.

I'm also thinking of starting a fanfic archive for detective couples. Whether or not anyone would actually submit fanfic to it, however, I have no idea. *g*

That would be cool!

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

See, this is where my experiences in costuming for cons and other such non-Halloween events comes in handy. Because you can pick up costume pieces at thrift stores for not too much and modify lots of them pretty easily.

For example--I have two possible costumes this year, one of which is a steampunk version of an anime-character I've cosplayed as, and the other it "see this big red coat with the hood and the toothy animal on the back? Look, I'm little red-riding hood", and it's a coat I own anyways to keep me nice and snug (and fable-ish) during the winter. *shrug* There we go.

Oh, and the librarian look is also an easy one for me. Mostly because, hey, I am (or will be) one. Heh.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - it'd be so much easier if I was already into that kind of thing, picking up pieces here and there and turning it into something. I'm sort of at the "hmm, should I get a costume of something?" phase. :D It most likely will be a no since I don't have a specific idea of "I must be this!"

And the costume shop had a librarian costume. It was a naughty librarian, but...

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's not too hard to raid the closet and just decide "hey these five things are a costume now :DDD".

Oo, ooo, was it the one with the capelet and the book-patterned skirt? Because that one is hilarious. It regularly gets posted on the library comms around Halloween as an example of "Dear Gods No".

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Book-patterned skirt - no, that wasn't it. But I had to look up what you're talking about and cracked up:

http://fusenumber8.blogspot.com/2006/10/costumes-targets-offering-this.html

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Yeeeees. I covet that skirt for the sheer lulz-factor it would provide me.

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[claidissa.livejournal.com]

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[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Sadly I can't watch this until I get home. :)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm going to do anything for Halloween, but if I was, I thankfully already have costumes. (Home-made Princess Leia costume that I made for a con, and some Renaissance clothing.) Though I'd need to get them shipped here, which is enough bother that I'm probably just not going to do anything. XD

Peter in love always seems to make me go AWWWW. :D He's just so adorable about it! Are the film adaptations worth renting, then?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm going to do anything for Halloween, but if I was, I thankfully already have costumes. (Home-made Princess Leia costume that I made for a con, and some Renaissance clothing.) Though I'd need to get them shipped here, which is enough bother that I'm probably just not going to do anything. XD

Well at least you have some options! :D

Peter in love always seems to make me go AWWWW. :D He's just so adorable about it!

Totally. :)

Are the film adaptations worth renting, then?

I watched them before I read the books and loved them enough to buy the books. But after having read them, Gaudy Night gets pretty slaughtered in the mini-series. It's practically a rewrite with the best bits being left out and events completely changed. Even the proposal is completely different. It's adorable in its own way, but you might be disappointed if you're looking for stuff from the book.

Strong Poison and Have His Carcase I found to be fairly faithful though. Whittled down, obviously, but it's mostly there for those.

The people who play Peter and Harriet do a great job and have really good chemistry with each other. When I've watched them again, I usually just zoom ahead to the parts where they have scenes together. :D

[debs7.livejournal.com]

If I was to read these Peter and Harreit books what one do I start with?

You have me intrigued.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

The order the Harriet books are in are:

1. Strong Poison (http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Poison-Dorothy-L-Sayers/dp/0061043508/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223940782&sr=8-1)

2. Have His Carcase (http://www.amazon.com/Have-His-Carcase-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/0061043524/ref=pd_sim_b_1)

3. Gaudy Night (http://www.amazon.com/Gaudy-Night-Peter-Wimsey-Mystery/dp/0061043494/ref=pd_sim_b_1)

4. Busman's Honeymoon (http://www.amazon.com/Busmans-Honeymoon-Dorothy-L-Sayers/dp/0061043516/ref=pd_sim_b_njs_1)

You really do need to start with Strong Poison since it's the basis for a lot of the Harriet and Peter relationship through the rest of the books. Unfortunately she's in it the least (since she's in prison the whole time), and I found that book to be the slowest.

My favorite is Gaudy Night for a lot of reasons. One of which is because their relationship really ramps up through it so you're doing the hands of joy by the end. :D

Busman's Honeymoon is a whole lot of...*squish* It's Peter and Harriet on their honeymoon (encountering a murder, of course) but cuteness abounds in it.

And I guess I should mention Have His Carcase since I talked about the others. It does have some interesting relationship stuff in there as well. A bit of head-butting going on between the two. Peter's certain that he's finally found someone he could be completely happy with in life, but Harriet simply doesn't want any of that with anyone, having been burned in her last relationship. And so they both wind up frustrated with each other.