Zelda! With the dress and spaulders and headpiece and a sword. It was great.
Her mother helped her make the dress, it was perfect, I helped her make the rest. Keep in mind she was still little enough to go trick-or-treating, so the word “helped” here mostly means she bounced up and down and got in the way of progress.
Sadly we have no pictures, because she got in a snit over something unrelated and refused to allow them to be taken.
Excuse me but you’re never too old to go trick or treating. Last time i did so was a few years ago, me and some friends dressed up and went out and about the neighborhood.
Is that a onesie?? And it has boxing gloves but no feeties??
As long as you go full costume, you’re fine. One of my daughters let her foreign exchange partner (who had heard about Halloween but never done it) come up with their costumes one year and so they went as “sophisticated vampires”. Translation: they wore cocktail dresses and had vampire teeth. And they were something like 16 or 17 at the time, not young. No one would give them candy. She learned a valuable life lesson that holiday!
I don’t trick or treat often but i’ve done it on and off at around age 16, early 20’s and late 20’s. Some were really basic costumes and some were moderately ok and i always got candy. But even if i got none i don’t think i would’ve cared, just going out and doing it is really all the fun 
Sad to hear those girls didn’t get any for their efforts though, could’ve just been bad luck and grumpy people in that particular area.
I always get “aren’t you too old for this?” comments and i always happily say no 
I just saw this…and I immediately thought, “Wow, those Chicagoans are really principled.” 
If @Grey_Devil comes to our door in costume, he’ll get candy. Actually, we give it to the lazy-dressed teens, too. We don’t want any trouble from unhappy trick-or-treaters. 
I always give extra candy to the teenagers taking their younger siblings out. They get extra karma points for being a good big sister/brother on a night when they’d much rather be hanging with their friends.
The teens who show up in street clothes with an open backpack worn backwards so it’s on their chest, who don’t say ANYTHING, just stand there expecting candy? They get one piece of no-one-likes-it. I’ve never heard of Halloween vandalism in my neighborhood, so I can dare to be so principled!
Rookie mistake.
The last time I went trick or treating for myself, I was 26, with two other grown-ass women.
We all wore full costume, and we even dressed up a puppy to take with us.
No one denied us candy; although a few did mention how “mature” we looked.
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
