How Baby

Happy Halloween!! A high holy day for children, even for one who’s very close to inching out of trick-or-treat age – at least, according to costume manufacturers.

Momo’s in a very strange age for clothing size. She’s at the very top of the available children’s sizes, which – to my alarm – is quite similar to a women’s medium. Being a person who hasn’t been a medium since… well, probably since I was Momo’s age, I simply forgot women come in sizes smaller than my twelve-year-old. And moving to the women’s section has consequences… like how all the clothes that supposedly ‘fit’ her are tailored to a grown woman’s body, and she is… kindly, not even close.

This was exacerbated this year for costume sizing, because as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the broad standard for Halloween costumes is that men get funny costumes, and women get sexy costumes, with equal opportunity for various brand tie-ins for things Momo isn’t interested in. Momo took a look at what was on offer and promptly decided that she wanted to be a druid.

Fortunately, while we may not be cosplay/RenFaire parents, we know a lot of people who are. Between a couple purchased pieces, some old costume jewelry, and some borrowed cloaks and armour, we’ve cobbled together a pretty sweet druid costume that’ll do double duty for if she ever wants to dress up for D&D.

Will her classmates know what a druid is? Maybe. Kids are getting nerdier, these days. But if not, she continues a proud family tradition of inscrutable costumes during your teenage years, following my Red Dwarf hologram costume.

—

Convention update: I’ve added a last-minute Akimatsuri to my convention roster, on November 8! It’s taking place at Kwantlen Polytechnic, in Richmond BC!

—

TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1 (Spoof of the ‘evolution of man’ poster, with girls/women in different ages and costumes. The youngest is an animal, and then in order they are ‘witch, fairy, princess, etc’, ‘girl [blank]’, an unknowable black cloud, and then finally an adult woman in a sexy angel costume labelled ‘sexy [blank]’

Panel 2 (Lindsay holds up bagged costumes while Momo looks bored/disgusted)
Lindsay: What do you want to be for Halloween?
Momo: I want to live in the woods.