Crossdressing costumes

[sineala]

As no one has offered any opinions on what I should be for Halloween, I thought I would ask a different question. See, I was having this conversation yesterday, and I wondered why more people in fandom do not dress up as their favorite fannish characters for Halloween. lysimache told me that it was because fandom is girls and they don't dress as boys, even

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[kimera]

I have been guys for Halloween! And for plays. Though it's hard to be convincing with waist-length hair.

Also, my high school best friend's little brother was Britney Spears for Halloween one year. That was awesome.

[sineala]

Coolness. I feel less weird now. :) Like, it never occurred to me that people might see gender as a barrier to their Halloween costume of choice, because the point is to be someone else, right?

That does sound awesome.

[skipperdee]

Is it bad that I read that headline and thought "what's odd about that? he was clearly surfing!"

Anyway... I know I dressed up as a knight when I was a kid, but I don't remember if I was a girl knight or a boy knight. I was really into those girls-in-history-doing-boy-things books, so I can't make any promises.

The main reason, I think, that I haven't done more cross-dressing for Halloween-type events is that I prefer a certain amount of realism in costuming, and I'm too amply bosomed to pull off androgyny. *sigh*

[sineala]

I like to go surfing with my harmonica. :)

Okay. :) I totally can't be convincing either, but I figure it's the thought that counts, and realism does not so much bother me. (A SCAdian, I am not.) Otherwise I'd never get to dress up as anything fun.

[skipperdee]

Wait wait wait... I did play a Lost Boy in Peter Pan! Except that was the Scary PC version of Peter Pan that replaced the Uggawum song with a bunch of people sitting around and telling an authentic but boring Native American story, so I might have been a Lost Girl instead. I'm not sure.

I think when I was in the Wizard of Oz as the farmer munchkin, that I might have been supposed to be male... but again, that was very much with the strangely androgynous costume choices. *shrug*

Really, for having done so much community theatre, I'm kind of shocked I don't have a clearer answer for this one.

[kivrin]

I've never been very convincing as a man, but I played a lot of guys on stage, and of my own volition I was the Phantom of the Opera for Halloween. And Peter Pan - twice, in fact - but I don't know if that counts since Peter is traditionally played by a woman.

[sineala]

I don't know if Peter Pan counts either. Huh. Will need to think.

[mrdorbin]

Two Halloweeen costumes: once as Satan's Cheerleader (I don't know, there was a red-and-black plaid skirt and I ran with it) and once as a wolf in grandmother's clothing, which is technically going as a cross-dressing character rather than actually cross-dressing myself, but I was still in a flannel nightgown.

[sineala]

I have to say, those sound seriously awesome. :)

[kindkit]

I was Robin Hood once for Halloween, if that counts. But I was about six years old.

For the poll, I really needed a button that said "I would if I could, but (a) my tits are too big not to look ridiculous, and (b) I'm too shy to risk having people stare at me, even on Halloween."

[sineala]

Fair enough. I am very, um, generously proportioned myself. But I'm not actually trying to pass, I figure, so I don't let it bother me.

[kindkit]

*nods* I just wouldn't be very good at doing it for the lulz, for reasons that are totally personal to me. Because I'm genderqueer but not very out about it in meatspace, I'd feel like I was exposing my soul or something.