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[nancylebov]

Jewish Halloween Costumes

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[siderea]

I'm impressed how few hits there are. Most of those are Jewish in the sense they're costumes that Jews might wear, typically Jewish in-jokes. Dressing up as a bagel with cream cheese and lox is dressing up as a Jew only insofar as you are what you eat.

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[nancylebov]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with dressing up as a bagel. I'm not sure what I think of the dog costumes.

Dressing up as a nun or a (Catholic) priest is also a thing. So far as I know, it's impossible (rather than deprecated) to dress up as a Protestant. What would you wear?

I think modern people aren't as good at inventing iconography as people were a century(?) more or less ago.

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[fabrisse]

A Baptist Blue suit with a bible under your arm and your name embossed in gold on said bible.

Having said that, it only works for Baptist.

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[403]

For Anglicans, a black starched shirt & slacks, and the 'dog collar' which is the iconic bit that would make the costume.

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[sauergeek]

If you accept Mormon as Protestant, in a white button-down shirt, black slacks, going about with a similarly dressed compatriot, both with nametags saying "Elder ".

I suspect you wouldn't get much luck trick-or-treating, though.

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[conuly]

I don't know. Everybody says that Mormon missionaries don't get much in the way of food - I figure it's an act of charity to feed them. I don't have to buy into their religion to do that.

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[heron61]

*4 Give them time.

I don't know anyone personally in the vampire sector of the otherkin community, but they are one of the more active and unified subgroups. I have no clue what they think of people dressing as vampires on Halloween.

Also, this makes me think of the small and exceedingly informal Halloween party I went to tonight - everyone who wore a costume (a bit more than half the people there) was dressed as a media character, including Morticia & Gomez Addams, Scully & Mulder, me as the 4th Doctor (which is amusingly not that different from my normal wear for any sort of remotely interesting occasion), and a 12 year old absolutely rocking her Harley Quinn outfit. I've never heard anyone I know talk about this, but universally, from what I've seen here and remember from past occasions, for my far-left geeky social group "dressing up as" always means as a particular fictional character. Clearly, this is wise.

[atreic]

This post would be mildly easier to read if the SCA acronym was expanded / explained.

But it's really interesting anyway! I'm assuming they're some sort of historical re enactors. And probably not the Scottish Canoe Association, or Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget.

[kelkyag]

Society for Creative Anachronism. Not quite re-enactors.

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[hudebnik]

A point I kept expecting you to address, and you didn't, is that traditionally Halloween costumes have been supposed to be "scary", not any-old-historical-character, not any-old-iconic-profession, not any-old-literary-character. A substantial fraction of them still are -- werewolves, fire-breathing dragons, vampires, animated mummies -- but for at least several decades, that's been largely irrelevant, as superheroes, sparkly-fairies, and literary/historical characters have taken over.

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[alexx_kay]

Depends upon the tradition. Looking through google images of old Halloween costumes, I see a significant fraction of not-even-a-little-scary as far back as I go. Certainly as far back as photography goes. I get the sense that "Trick or Treat" used to be much more divorced from "Masquerade" than it currently is, but there seems to have been significant overlap for over a century.

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[fabrisse]

Last night, I handed out campaign literature at a candy give-away in my building. The demographics are still more black than white, though, like the rest of the District, there's more milk in the chocolate all the time. And I noticed that the black residents stopped and talked to me, asked questions about my positions and experience, and usually said something along the lines of "I've got this, honey." (nb: I saw more men than women and the women were more likely to call me honey, sister, or girl.) The white folks kept walking, most of them taking the literature in passing, but not one asked a question.

So, I said to some of the people at my table, "Is it just me or are white folks a little cold?"

The answers were as diverse as "Yes" and "Hell, yes." I got about three minutes of how white people are perceived by my local black community.

The point: We don't know how lucky we are that they have the good sense and good manners not to dress up as us.

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[naath]

I think my social group tends to go for "joke" costumes. Although this year had a lot of pokemon trainers... I usually try to pick costumes because they are warm, on account of October in Cambridge being could, above all other considerations.

Last year there was a group who did "as each other", and one of them is Jewish, so one of them was dressed "as a Jew" but a *specific* Jew which is a bit different I think.

I do re-enactment, my group is steadfastly first-person and I would say "I am the tailor's cousin" unless I was in-character in-costume for a pageant or a tableu or something (Now, imagine explaining how your Agincourt kit/Julius Caesar costume/etc is totally wrong in exactly the way the people of the late 16th century would have been wrong... without breaking your late 16th century character).

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[403]

(Now, imagine explaining how your Agincourt kit/Julius Caesar costume/etc is totally wrong in exactly the way the people of the late 16th century would have been wrong... without breaking your late 16th century character).

"Where am I going dressed like this? Only to the most important social event of 1525!"