The Dreaded Annual Halloween Kilt Thread - 2009

[bikercelt1]

Sorry, but you guys have totally lost me!... The celebration of Halloween in my experience is a comparatively recent event which appears to have been fuelled by commercial establishments such as the supermarkets.

Take care,
Ham.

But Ham! Everything here is fuelled by commercial establishments!!! We enjoy any excuse for a party, even recreating our youthful costumed trick-or-treating. For most of us Halloween is much like Mardi-Gras or Carnival. It's a chance to become either incognito or an alter ego by dressing up in costume and experiencing a slightly different persona.

Jamie

[Chas]

Although I grew up in Canada, I can't remember any adults getting involved in Halloween, except for a few parents with their children in tow. So when did all this adults getting costumed happen?

Regards

Chas

[Jack Daw]

Although I grew up in Canada, I can't remember any adults getting involved in Halloween, except for a few parents with their children in tow. So when did all this adults getting costumed happen?

Regards

Chas

My parents were born in 1925 and they 'guised' and went door to door as kids, but tricks (e.g. soaping windows) were more prevalent. Watch "Meet Me in St. Louis." Before urban fire laws, Halloween bonfires were quite popular, too.

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Although I grew up in Canada, I can't remember any adults getting involved in Halloween, except for a few parents with their children in tow. So when did all this adults getting costumed happen?

Regards

Chas

I guess you missed the whole halloween nightclubbing thing, almost every bar and pub you go to on halloween is a costume party. I'ts one of the best nights of the year to go out nightclubbing!

[Chas]

I guess you missed the whole halloween nightclubbing thing, almost every bar and pub you go to on halloween is a costume party. I'ts one of the best nights of the year to go out nightclubbing!

It was 1966 and I was 14 years old when we left Canada, so yes I missed the Halloween experience. We can drink legally here from the age of 18, so I've made up for it since.

Regards

Chas

[McMurdo]

It was 1966 and I was 14 years old when we left Canada, so yes I missed the Halloween experience. We can drink legally here from the age of 18, so I've made up for it since.

Regards

Chas

We could drink legally here at 18 as well, though they did move it up to 19 the year I turned 18, I just slipped under the wire, one of the reasons I got into all that trouble and had a great misspent youth.

[Frank McGrath]

Although I grew up in Canada, I can't remember any adults getting involved in Halloween, except for a few parents with their children in tow. So when did all this adults getting costumed happen?

Regards

Chas

In the US, Its just another excuse to drink and get stupid. It is getting to the point that every holiday is just another day to sell booze.

[BrettH]

In the US, Its just another excuse to drink and get stupid. It is getting to the point that every holiday is just another day to sell booze.

So long as I get to wear a kilt while doing it, I have no problem with this progression.

[Nighthawk]

So long as I get to wear a kilt while doing it, I have no problem with this progression.

...I was looking for the problem there, too...

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . . I vaguely recall that Victorian children 'bobbed for apples' . . .

I've done that just once. Unless the water is quite shallow it's tremendously frustrating, and in any case it's quite messy, but anyone who enjoys drying his kilt may well enjoy the bobbing too.


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