Happy Halloween!

 

Trick or treat? 

UPDATE:

As I was looking through old photos, I came across this one from the Halloween party I hosted in 1980, when I was in eighth grade. This was shot early in the evening, when we took my sister and her friend trick-or-treating, but later it got hopping and sort of became legendary -- the year before everything went to hell with the tennis team. (That's Jim Bell in front in blue.)

It’s a perfect example of how the costumes people wear on TV shows are always infinitely better than anything anyone has in real life. Other than my friend Mike's punker look -- which he would adopt in real life a year later -- my Strawberry Shortcake little sister and the sheik, I can't tell who anyone is supposed to be, although I'm sensing a firing squad theme based on people’s expressions.

Particularly egregious is yours truly -- unless I was merely going as a big queer -- because I'm not sure what this was supposed to be. 

Although I look like a less-butch Bea Arthur, my first instinct, given how obsessed I was with slasher films of the era, was that it was something Jamie Lee Curtis-related. But your guess is as good as mine -- so I'll Venmo 50 bucks to anyone who can solve the mystery!

This was Strawberry Shortcake's guess, but I'd have to think I'd have gotten a dress like Norman Bates wore. 

And my friend Mark thinks the key is the footwear ...