{"id":87,"date":"2009-10-25T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-10-25T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:25:01","slug":"the-necessity-of-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2009\/10\/25\/the-necessity-of-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I debated long and hard about what costume to wear this Halloween. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a simple choice of going to Meijer the day of a party and buying something that fits and is cheap. Oh no, I plan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes not enough. My senior year of high school I decided on being a Jedi, and I wanted to make it myself. I bought fabric, patterns, and set to work. It quickly became an issue of time. You see, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, and still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, know how to use a sewing machine and making a costume by hand is a really long process.<\/p>\n

I ended up roping my sister to help me because she knows how to work the contraption. We were up past midnight on Hallow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eve and I had to pay her half the Reese\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s I got that year. And while I was immensely proud of my costume I still got pwned by a young kid dressed up as Darth Vadar because his light saber extended AND lit up.<\/p>\n

So, for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s costume it has to be easy to make. And recognizable. My junior year, I bought 40 peacock plumes and made a tail I attached to the back of a dress. This thing was huge, easily had a six foot span, and with a purple dress and beautiful plums I figured it would be pretty obvious that I was a peacock.<\/p>\n

Turns out that was wrong, this one lady called me a turkey. A turkey<\/strong>! And I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t defend myself because I had lost my voice for a week from working at a haunted house. I was unable to say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrick-or-treat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, let alone point out this woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0mistake. My friends still call me a turkey sometimes.<\/p>\n

So yes, Halloween costumes have to be easy to make, and it has to be obvious what you are. Oh, and cheap. We are college students.<\/p>\n

So I looked through my clothes (nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheaper then what you already have) and found a pair of cargo pants that had potential. And Salvation Army has a ton of stuff too. Go on Thursdays, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s student discount day. Take me if you need advise.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cargo pants, black top, and a summer fondness for revisiting Disney cartoons. Add a small box covered in printer paper colored to match the proper accessories and some red hair dye and a Kim Possible cosplay is born!<\/p>\n

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just ignore the fact that my hair is short and curly and that my martial skills are so bad I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even fake a pose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I debated long and hard about what costume to wear this Halloween. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a simple choice of going to Meijer the day of a party and buying something that fits and is cheap. Oh no, I plan. Sometimes not enough. My senior year of high school I decided on being a Jedi, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}