A Gay Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun and very unusual this year. A chain of events led to the idea for my costume. You may recall this was the year Farrah Fawcett died. After hearing this news my friend Mickey suggested we watch the 1976 movie Logan's Run, where she had a minor role. It's a great old sci-fi film that I'd never seen before, depicting a future society where every individual's age is marked by a colored crystal embedded in their palm at birth. The older you become, the redder your crystal flashes. When you reach 30 (I think), you are required to attend "carousel", a public event where you are ceremonially killed to much cheering. If you try to escape this fate a character known as a "Sandman" chases you down and shoots you with what looks like a barbeque lighter gun.

I started off wanting to make the costume for the character "Box", a giant silver robot, but since that was going to be way too unwieldly we decided to go as Citizen Farrah and Sandman Logan. I borrowed a friend's sewing machine, bought a bunch of fabric, and stitched away. They turned out pretty well, and closely resemble costumes from the movie and miniseries (below). I thought the 3-ringed belt was going to be tough to reproduce, but I lucked out. I found some rings at the Halloween store intended to be worn in the nose (for a tribal costume), which I was able to link together. As a finishing touch we glued blinky lights to our hands. That was what tipped most people off to who we were.

No one I knew was throwing a party this year, so after throwing candy at the hordes of Trick-or-Treaters storming the neighborhood, we went to a couple of events hosted by Mickey's gay coworkers. They were fun folks, and very well-dressed. Hence the title of this entry. :)