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16B - The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazine - Thursday, October 25, 2001
Students remember their favorite Halloween costumes
By Karen Schwartz
Daily Arts Writer
Flash back to the days of crazy
costumes, ringing doorbells, yelling
"trick-or-treat" and trying to trick
your friends into trading Kit-KAts for
those funny colored taffy things in
orange and black wrappers. Flash
aback to the days of griping about the
people who gave out toothbrushes or
pennies and just didn't appreciate the
artistic effort that went in to making
you ... the blue M&M with eyeholes
just small enough that you couldn't
see through them. Think all the way
back to ... last year?
As Halloween approaches the lure
of candy and costumes grows again
'-- even people between the ages of
19 and 23 wonder if they can get
away with 'trick-or-treating just one
more year to get those pillowcases
full of food and to show off one more
cool costume.
LSA freshman Miljana Vujosevic,
who hopes continue the-tradition of
trick-or-treating this year, said she
still remembers her Halloween debut
as a washing machine when she was
in third grade.
"It was a cardboard box. My head
went in one end and my arms went
out the side, and there was a. door
that opened up - the whole thing
was neon colors," she laughed.
"People either kept trying to open the
door and put things in there or just
stood there wondering what I was."
Vujosevic added that despite her
past history of original costumes,
including a strawberry, leaf and
money bag, she doesn't plan to be a
washing machine or anything of the
like this year.
"Most people think it's cute, espe-
cially when you're young. If I did it
now, who knows? But for third grade
it was fun; I mean, you can't really
go out in public like that very often,"
Vujosevic said.
LSA sophomore James Davis
shares Vujosevic's enthusiasm for
costumes past but said he doesn't
think he'll be making more trick-or-
treating memories this year. He said
his all-time best costume was some-
time around kindergarten, when he
dressed up as an Ewok from "Star
Wars."
"It was great. I had a furry mask
like one of those you buy at the store,
a cape, some furry gloves ... defi-
nitely something straight out of K-
mart."
Davis, however, is also still haunt-
ed by his all-time scariest trick-or-
treating moment, where he said he
and friends were almost kidnapped
while trying to get candy.
"We rang his doorbell and this guy
invited us in. He said the treats were
in the back ... we went out to the
back and he had his car running. We
definitely booked it out of there,"
Davis said..
Though 25 of the 30 students ran-
domly surveyed by this reporter said
they didn't plan on trick-or-treating
this year, many also said they could-
n't imagine a Halloween without cos-
tumes.
LSA freshman Christina
Dewaelsche says she'll never forget
being Rainbow Bright and carrying
"Rainbow Bright's horse" around the
neighborhood when she was little.
"The costume had a sparkly wig,
puffy shoulders ... it was the best.
Even just the makeup, we were so
proud of it because my sister and I
were 3 and 4 and we got to wear lip-
stick and eye shadow," Dewaelsche
said, smiling as she remembered the
make-up madness.
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