But if I know they're plastic ahead of time,

Well, only the one is plastic. The rest are jewelled. Hrm. I wish I could fit my gothy fairy wings into my suitcase.

And then have juliana and Zach LAUGH at me...

SORRY!!! I did feel bad about giggling, if that helps....

A long time ago, a girl showed up to my Halloween party wearing (I think) a long black dress, and she had draped herself (the dress, mostly) in fake cobwebs, and then attached spiders to them. It was actually pretty cool.

White dress, plastic bag, cardboard hanger with the middle cut out and out on your head.

"Dry cleaning"

Lee, I think you should dress up as a sepulchre by the sea.

Lee, You could put in a pregger belly, borrow a tiara and go as me. :)

At my Halloween thing last year, we had an interesting crossover: juliana in her Freudian costume as a Freudian slip, 'dre in lingerie as a Pink slip.

I want to see someone go as "weapons of mass destruction program related activities."

(dreamily) spiderweb lace from the Halloween collection at the fabric store, on sale + 30% off. Too bad I didn't actually buy it.

juliana, a request for you: IIRC, you are happy in French. Would you like to read the agonised, furious, heartbroken ghost, during the reading at the Seattle event? One or two of the sections I'm looking at reading take place in the theatre, and it's actually very tricky jumping back and forth between reading Penny and her actors aloud, and Agnès de Belleville in the next breath.

Oh! Oh! Oh, my heart is breaking here. Absolutely breaking that I won't get to hear this. Ohhhh.