Every year on Halloween day my place of work, a small company, called REMI, organizes a dress-up party for us. It is a big thing, we would talk (or some would specifically NOT talk) about what we will be dressed as on that day, weeks ahead of time. It is an expression of creativity, daring, humor, and only rarely money. Throughout my ten years of history working here I have been a wise old hermit, a belly dancer, an “alien woter” (intentional misspelling of voter…), a masked exotic lady (pictured), “Dracula, hiding behind a toothache but unable to cover his accent”, “just an ol’ guy”, a glue addict, a hardcore punk fan with a Mohawk – and something else I have forgotten. So each year it gets harder as I don’t want to repeat, and I want to make up to my previous standard. Also, we make a prized competition out of the event with prizes for the most creative, scariest, funniest and overall best costumes. I shoot for most creative but have become the scariest or funniest sometimes as well.

This year I ran out of ideas so having offered some help towards it, I decided with “bearded lady with child”, that involved a mannequin doll and a black-and-white mannequin dress to match. Also a mask, as the doll had a painted face so a mask would match well. This was the most prop intensive set, and the doll or any other part of the set was not to get wet or ruffled up.

So that day I took my Mundo, as you can see, that has bags, that protect items in them from rain and rufflement. Don’t ask what all the people seeing me on the road thought, but after all it was Halloween day…

The party was fun. Below you will see my full dress. I qualified as the scariest this time, I think because of the weirdness of the mask.