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Calendar Events / Announcements '06 II / O.T. halloween as a "lifestyle"?
« on: October 26, 2006, 12:54:20 AM »
a few weeks ago my job sent me into a halloween "superstore" that's open year round.
in addition to the brisk annual business they do around halloween they also have a signifigant theatrical business(make-up,wigs,masks)a section devoted to mardi-gras goodies and so on.
but more than the merchandise the store's employees struck my attention.
needless to say there was the requisite "goth" element going on.one young african-american lady had the piercings,the purple contact lenses,the dreadlock hair extensions,the antique black velvet gown.but it was more than just that.one pear-shaped middle-aged man's hair and beard were both dyed electric yellow(radical fairy?),there were a few space-age neo club kids(perhaps channeling michael alig?),a tranny or two and one lass who took her grungy workaday ensemble of ripped jeans,hightop sneakers,pink zip-up hoody,cat's eye glasses,dyed platinum hair(with de-riguer roots and plastered down with bobby pins)and accessorized the whole get-up with a ballett tutu.
so i was wondering if for some halloween is not simply a day on the calendar but more of year-round way of life?
every day an occasion for roleplay?or did i just happen upon an eccentric group of store clerks?
in addition to the brisk annual business they do around halloween they also have a signifigant theatrical business(make-up,wigs,masks)a section devoted to mardi-gras goodies and so on.
but more than the merchandise the store's employees struck my attention.
needless to say there was the requisite "goth" element going on.one young african-american lady had the piercings,the purple contact lenses,the dreadlock hair extensions,the antique black velvet gown.but it was more than just that.one pear-shaped middle-aged man's hair and beard were both dyed electric yellow(radical fairy?),there were a few space-age neo club kids(perhaps channeling michael alig?),a tranny or two and one lass who took her grungy workaday ensemble of ripped jeans,hightop sneakers,pink zip-up hoody,cat's eye glasses,dyed platinum hair(with de-riguer roots and plastered down with bobby pins)and accessorized the whole get-up with a ballett tutu.
so i was wondering if for some halloween is not simply a day on the calendar but more of year-round way of life?
every day an occasion for roleplay?or did i just happen upon an eccentric group of store clerks?