I have gone to Hell and returned! Yes folks, I have gone into an iParty in search of a Halloween costume four days before Halloween and lived to talk about it!
That store is a living nightmare, and not the cool Halloween-ish kind. Children were running wild, screaming, pulling, yelling, and iParty’s tightly packed store aisles didn’t aid in the congestion. Mothers were frantically trying to grab the last Superman costumes, little boys were chasing one another with plastic pirate swords, and cranky employees were lackadaisically sorting through the inventory thrown all over the place.
See, I tell myself every year, every single fucking year, “Don’t wait until the last minute, Angela.” Do I ever listen to myself? Nope.
There was a very limited selection of decent Halloween costumes for women. Obviously, Halloween is the best time of the year for girls to dress like total sluts; the holiday gives them an excuse to let their inner hobag out, and iParty’s costumes definitely reflected that. Why dress as a [insert Halloween costume type here] when you can dress as a slutty [insert Halloween costume type here]. I had a choice between being a slutty cheerleader, slutty nurse, slutty frenchmaid (that’s just obvious), a slutty witch, a slutty angel, a slutty devil… the possibilities were endless.
I did find a Beer Bottle costume that I looked at for a few minutes. Ultimately, I opted for a witchy-looking dress, found a witch hat and a witch broom and my costume was complete! And no, it’s SO NOT slutty.
After forty minutes in line, my purchase was complete. I spent WAY more than I wanted to and after battling a raging tide of feral children and ignorant parents, I was finally able to leave iParty, angrily grunting as a walked to my car. Thank goodness I only have to do this once a year!
until Andre Tippett's Enshrinement
until Patriots Training Camp!
I'm Angela - I'm staring down the barrel of my 30s (gah) working as a production editor
(office bitch) for a small newspaper. I'm consumed by my endless devotion to
the New England Patriots and have recenty taken up knitting to keep busy until September. Oh yeah, and I have a really whacky boyfriend to keep me amused.
Oh man. I was in there last week. TOTAL NIGHTMARE!
Next year, maybe you can try Jack’s Joke Shop on Tremont St. in the Theatre District. They are downtown and won’t have as many costumes, but there is a nice selection and the lines will not be as bad!
Feral children. That is funny.
I saw a documentart on A&E one night about feral children.
But I was actually just commenting to say that this is exactly why I shop online.
[...] - Angela shops for a Halloween costume! - I survive (barely) a pre-Halloween trip to iParty. [...]
Go early! I worked there once and you can go during the week in the morning and get the whole store to yourself! Even the mon or tuesday before halloween works! Its amazing how many people wait to the last days.. craziness!
Feral Children LOL, nice post. Made me chuckle. Would like to see the beer bottle costume more this year. Cheers.
Woah, enough with the spamming. One more and I hit delete… fo’ reals.
OK all these comments are go bye bye. Don’t spam my shit for your crappy costume shop. You are more than welcome to purchase an ad on my site but I don’t give free advertising. Fuck faces.