So it's world book day...
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weaselettAnd this is my first post in forever ;)
Schools take world book day sooooo serious now - we did it when I was a kid, but it was more free? And there were less costumes to buy, and few people I knew had parents with the time to actually make complicated costumes?
Some are really impressive these days - but I do miss the less competitive parents of my youth, and the amazing mash up of things we did to create costumes!
I mean, I was great for my mum - I literally went as Mildred Hubble one year, and Daryl Rivers the year after, and a chalet school girl as well..... (literally, a variant of my actual school uniform was exactly what is described in the book?) To be fair otherwise I was reading Redwall and Watership Down so I picked things I could reasonably be *g* By the time I was into Sharpe and Tamora Pierce it was high school and high school does not do world book dressing up (which is sad).
The one other kid whose costume always sticks in my mind, because we were ten and he was hard core into reading bios - he dressed as Douglas Bader and told use all about how awesome he was (our teacher was v quiet on the whole when he explained who he had dressed as) - it sticks in my mind because the rest of spent the rest of day pointing out his outfit was near perfect, only he clearly still had his own two legs (I think if he'd been willing to wobble a bit we would have given in - or let us carry him around in a chair....).
Schools take world book day sooooo serious now - we did it when I was a kid, but it was more free? And there were less costumes to buy, and few people I knew had parents with the time to actually make complicated costumes?
Some are really impressive these days - but I do miss the less competitive parents of my youth, and the amazing mash up of things we did to create costumes!
I mean, I was great for my mum - I literally went as Mildred Hubble one year, and Daryl Rivers the year after, and a chalet school girl as well..... (literally, a variant of my actual school uniform was exactly what is described in the book?) To be fair otherwise I was reading Redwall and Watership Down so I picked things I could reasonably be *g* By the time I was into Sharpe and Tamora Pierce it was high school and high school does not do world book dressing up (which is sad).
The one other kid whose costume always sticks in my mind, because we were ten and he was hard core into reading bios - he dressed as Douglas Bader and told use all about how awesome he was (our teacher was v quiet on the whole when he explained who he had dressed as) - it sticks in my mind because the rest of spent the rest of day pointing out his outfit was near perfect, only he clearly still had his own two legs (I think if he'd been willing to wobble a bit we would have given in - or let us carry him around in a chair....).
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Date: 2019-03-11 02:33 am (UTC)But yeah, Halloween and it's ilk. I do miss costuming and dressing up for random things. Ah well.