rabbit children

I love love love these costumes! I bet that little white rabbit stole the show!

There’s something about animal costumes that truly makes me happy. My mother used to make all my halloween outfits when I was a child and one was a furry pink bunny. The house was covered with pink fluff for a week! I won a department store costume contest and was on the news at a local Halloween festival in Shockoe Slip and refused to get out of character… just hopped through the entire interview. There was also the cat costume which I brought out years later and barely fit into for a school competition, which also won first place, after I went crazy with improv. Something wild that lurks deep inside manages to rise out of me when I am in a costume. All the more better if my face is concealed in some way, like the muzzle I wore with my tiger suit 2 years ago… there’s something about the anonymity of costumes and the revelry of strangers all trying to free a part of themselves on Halloween that makes it one of the most special times of the year.

One day, if I have children, their wardrobes will be purchased for the entire year at Halloween… animal costumes year round until they can protest!

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