Oct 31st - Outfit #30 - Happy Hallowe'en! New Shoes and a November Preview

Happy Hallowe'en! 

I hope you're having a spooky good time wherever you are!

Me, I was in full costume all day. I have been planning my costume since I saw these feather crows in the dollar store a few months back. In fact, I built October's capsule wardrobe around my costume! 

And without further ado, here we are:

'Ahhhhhhhh! The birds!"

In case you can't guess, I am "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. Not an original idea - and strangely enough, when I sent a picture of my costume to Jody at Couture Allure Vintage Fashion, she posted the next day that 3 of the entries were all the same costume! Too funny! I guess we are birds of a feather... (I know, bad pun).

Don't forget to check out Ally's Hallowe'en party here! 

I did a test run of my costume on the weekend, to make sure that it would be practical for wearing to work and sitting at a computer all day.

"Get them off, get them off!" 

It turned out to be fine, but by the end of the day I was, "Seriously, get these &#@%ing birds off me!"

This is my green tweed suit worn as a suit, finally. I've also attached the faux fur collar to the jacket for the first time all month. I last wore the jacket here with my barn skirt, and the skirt here, with shades of red and brown.

The hat is a straw vintage hat with a black velvet bow and a dotted veil. I don't recall where I got it, so I've obviously had it for a while.

"Get this bird off my leg!"

The purse is my fake Tod's bag, picked up at a vintage fair for $4.00 last year. I got the gloves (also vintage) for $2.00 at a thrift store.

L took these pictures outside our condo, on the front lawn. I wonder what my neighbours thought?

Two of the crows have ripped my bloody glove off and are fighting over it while they perch on my bag.

The shoes are my black granny shoes (last worn here on Friday with neutrals and mustard).

I sat at the computer in costume on Saturday to make sure it would be comfortable. Vizzini spotted the crow on my arm.

"Hello, what is this?"

The birds had wire sticking out of the bottoms of their legs, which made it easy to just poke through the straw hat and the fabric of my suit without damaging it.

I used fake blood to paint scratches on my hands and on my face.

"This vile creature has hurt my woman!" 

 By the end of the day, the blood was all dried and cakey. It felt really gross on my face.

"He looks tasty."

 Lunge!

"I attack!"

 This morning, I reassembled and got into costume again.

I ate a lot of Hallowe'en candy last night and didn't sleep well due to the sugar coursing through my veins. I woke up exhausted and had a crazy day. My work did a pumpkin carving contest today, had pizza in for lunch, and many of my coworkers participated in a group costume where they all dressed up as the favourite director. He was a super good sport and I think he ended up really being touched that everyone wanted to tease him. Anyway, a crazy day.

I rode the bus like this to and from work. On the way home, a woman said to me, "You look amazing. Your costume makes me very happy."

I did a double string of pearls (fake, had 'em since the 80s) and pearl earrings. I also had red lips and toned down make-up.

I slashed the gloves (they were only $2, but it still hurt to cut up good vintage) and applied fake blood to them.

The hat stayed on my head with an elastic hairband that I stapled to the inside trim (removeable). My hair was slicked back.

The crow that's attacking my leg was stapled to another hairband (you can see a bit of it in some of the pictures). I tore holes in a pair of nylons and put fake blood on my leg.

This is how I looked before I put the jacket, hat, gloves and crows on.

Almost normal!

Suit (Precis Petites), top (Mossimo, consignment), shoes (Marc Softwalk), hat (vintage), purse (fake Tod's).

For fun, this is what my work area looks like (I'm actually trying to work in this picture).

I had fun decorating my desk. The pumpkins looked great! Aw, I'll be sad to take it all down tomorrow morning.

I had a lovely surprise today - Fluevogs arrived in the mail!

These are the Wonders Ayers* in olive green. My wonderful Winesday Women gave me a gift certificate for my birthday, and I let them choose out of my top 3 favourites which pair I should buy - these won. Awesome! I can't wait to wear them!
*I link because I love - you know I love Fluevogs!

However, it won't be in November, because that wardrobe is raring to go! Here we are - the shoes!

Two pairs of over-the-knee boots, one pair of flats and four pairs of heels.

The bottoms:

Mostly skirts - only one pair of pants. Four of the pieces are leather/suede.

I am making sure I have a variety of lengths:

Short to very long!

The sweaters, cardigans and jackets:

A good mix of texture, pattern and colours.

The dresses and tops:

One of the dresses is suede.

And that's it! Did you notice the theme? It's another neutral month! I wanted to give it a shot for colder weather - if you haven't looked at my summer neutral month, please feel free to check it out: June and June recap.

Speaking of which, the October recap will be up on the weekend (they take a long time to write).