A Couples Costume Party

Probably in the year or so right around when we dressed in our hometown ball team player costumes, a neighbor decided it would make for a good change of pace for the neighborhood adults (& some of their other friends) to dress up for a "adult" costume party. And so they did.

I don't remember all of the clever costumes I heard about soon afterward, & only a photo or two surfaced (just that no one really took that many photos in general for them to be duplicated & passed out). The adults that attended the party came in couples & the intention, I believe, was that their costumes were to coordinate like any of these.

I think I remember the host couple to have dressed up as 50s swing dancers. She, a petite woman, had the figure; he could wear a suit.

In my parents typical style, Mom set to work figuring out which pattern she could find that would be both fun for them to wear & something she'd be able to stitch up simply enough; patterns like this. Somehow Mom came across a sewing pattern for an adult version of this & this.

They did well for themselves at the party & those who attended enjoyed their unique costume pairing. The costumes served us kids well into the upcoming years as whenever there'd be an occasion for a costume, as we'd outgrown any possibilities from our childhood, & many mainstream costumes weren't practical, we'd reuse these costumes over & over.

I remember one occasion of re-wearing Mom's costume. There'd been an event at college where students were encouraged to wear a costume to dinner in the school's cafeteria. I believe it had been our junior year & the friend with whom I'd eat dinner meals hadn't a costume, nor bothered to get herself one. I, on the other hand, had become comfortable enough with myself that I could manage easily enough to sit in the school's cafeteria & eat a meal all the while wearing this silly, somewhat meaningless (it was, at this point, a stand-alone) costume.

She was proud of me. Honestly, I think it was just a low-key costume "party" as I didn't get any type of bonus or prize for wearing the costume. I had a general growth within recognizing in myself I'd become strong enough to do this sort of thing. Minuscule as it may seem, at one time this would've been a rather monumental happening for me.

Apparently it's true, not everything each of us learns while away at college (appropriate or inappropriate 😂) occurs in the syllabi or even in the classroom. 😃



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