Halloween Of Yore

Remember those Gap ads that had a picture of someone famous and at the bottom it would say something like, "Ernest Hemingway (or insert other famous person here) wore khakis"? Well, I do.

It was the early 90s and I remember it fondly. I had torn one of these ads out of a magazine and hung it on the wall of my dorm room. It was a picture of Karl Lagerfeld and it had the GAP logo at the bottom. My friend Gabe was the spittin' image of old Karl and so we painted wite-out on the ad and turned the "GAP" into "GABE". Ingenious, I know. We had a lot of time on our hands back then.

Anyway, you want the point of the story, don't you? (You're getting bored and you're thinking of clicking over to TMZ to see what Lindsey Lohan is wearing today, aren't you?) Well, the point of the story is...that same year, 1993, my friends and I got invited to a sweet Halloween kegger. So we needed some equally sweet Halloween costumes. And, are you ready for it? Gabe went as Karl Lagerfeld and I went as his model from the catwalk! He wore a black suit and looked irritated and bored with everyone, a la Karl. I wore a very ornate vintage 70s lampshade on my head and wrapped our shower curtain from the dorm bathroom around me. It was couture, people. Karl didn't slut around with ready-to-wear H&M frocks back then. (Yes, I'm still bitter that we don't have an H&M in Seattle.)

So, our costumes were smashing and the party was fantastic, although, my lampshade did knock me off balance a few times. Such is the price for high fashion.

I can only hope that Aaron's and my Halloween costumes this year will be as much of a success. I'll regale you with details on Monday...