Halloween costumes!

[DirtyDishSoap]

Any of you debbie downers dressing up this year? Share your costumes! It's the only time of the year where you can dress as you want and not be judged for it!

Take Saxi for example! Been dressing up as mrswdk for years! No judgment!

If you share yours I'll share mine to double down on this thread

[Votanic]

Any of you debbie downers dressing up this year? Share your costumes! It's the only time of the year where you can dress as you want and not be judged for it!

Take Saxi for example! Been dressing up as mrswdk for years! No judgment!

If you share yours I'll share mine to double down on this thread

Now c'mon DDS, be honest, ...wouldn't you rather chat about politics?

[HitRed]

Fishbowl

Make my costumes from scratch every year. Past years: Rubik’s cube, calculator, dice, deck of cards, street signs, cow, tick tack toe.

[Votanic]

Fishbowl

Make my costumes from scratch every year. Past years: Rubik’s cube, calculator, dice, deck of cards, street signs, cow, tick tack toe.

So basically this:

...but with an organism in it.

[HitRed]

American flag, bus and another year a Texas flag.

[Votanic]

American flag, bus and another year a Texas flag.

Could you give an estimate on your carbon footprint from all that foam-rubber usage?

[Dukasaur]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

[Votanic]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

Which painting is that?
I did a quick search, nothing definite, ...but I think the first painting shown is really a close-up of two of the Three Magi.

[Dukasaur]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

Which painting is that?
I did a quick search, nothing definite, ...but I think the first painting shown is really a close-up of two of the Three Magi.

[KoolBak]

Did you use shoe polish for the skin color?

[Dukasaur]

Did you use shoe polish for the skin color?

LOL! No, just the costume, not the skin.

[Votanic]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

Which painting is that?
I did a quick search, nothing definite, ...but I think the first painting shown is really a close-up of two of the Three Magi.

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

This is just what a detail from a scene of the Adoration of the Magi would look like, perhaps Melchior and Balthazar.

[HitRed]

Mischief managed

[saxitoxin]

I went as a Sexy Amazon Prime Driver.

(Which is basically just an Amazon Prime Driver outfit, but I was wearing it.)

I got the vest and hat off eBay and the box from ... Amazon. I made the ID card in Photoshop and printed it at FedEx Office then got a badge holder from Staples.

[Votanic]

I went as a Sexy Amazon Prime Driver.

(Which is basically just an Amazon Prime Driver outfit, but I was wearing it.)

I got the vest and hat off eBay and the box from ... Amazon. I made the ID card in Photoshop and printed it at FedEx Office then got a badge holder from Staples.

Uh, ...real Amazon Prime drivers don't wear chaps without pants, saxi.

[saxitoxin]

Uh, ...real Amazon Prime drivers don't wear chaps without pants, saxi.

they also don't have packages as big as mine

[Dukasaur]

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

The posing is undoubtedly more symbolic than realistic, but Saladin and Guy did converse after the battle of Hattin and Saladin spared Guy's life.

I imagine this painting to represent the two of them looking out at the carnage they had created and sharing a moment of private horror.

[pmac666]

Trick or treat?

[Votanic]

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

The posing is undoubtedly more symbolic than realistic, but Saladin and Guy did converse after the battle of Hattin and Saladin spared Guy's life.

I imagine this painting to represent the two of them looking out at the carnage they had created and sharing a moment of private horror.

Huh?, they're almost smiling?!
Though the smiles do seem somewhat fake, like the kind used to disguise a grimace of disgust, ...such as when looking at an ugly baby perhaps?

[Dukasaur]

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

The posing is undoubtedly more symbolic than realistic, but Saladin and Guy did converse after the battle of Hattin and Saladin spared Guy's life.

I imagine this painting to represent the two of them looking out at the carnage they had created and sharing a moment of private horror.

Huh?, they're almost smiling?!

Don't look like smiles to me.

Guy looks pensive, contemplative, regretful.

Saladin looks more like this...

Though the smiles do seem somewhat fake, like the kind used to disguise a grimace of disgust, ...such as when looking at an ugly baby perhaps?

Or 30,000 mutilated corpses.

[Votanic]

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

The posing is undoubtedly more symbolic than realistic, but Saladin and Guy did converse after the battle of Hattin and Saladin spared Guy's life.

I imagine this painting to represent the two of them looking out at the carnage they had created and sharing a moment of private horror.

Huh?, they're almost smiling?!

Don't look like smiles to me.

Guy looks pensive, contemplative, regretful.

Saladin looks more like this...

Though the smiles do seem somewhat fake, like the kind used to disguise a grimace of disgust, ...such as when looking at an ugly baby perhaps?

Or 30,000 mutilated corpses.

I am vindicated. There already seems to be widespread concensus that this Van Lievens also-ran 'heavily borrowed' from Peter Paul Rubens Adoration of the Magi paintings. It seems he really didn't do much more than fancifully interpret gold jewelry to be handcuffs, ...and of course, change the title. Seriously this painting is poor quality shlock that does nothing to reveal the supposed history, characters, setting, or theme. The composition, expressions, lack of background, foreground, etc. Everything is wrong. I honestly suspect that Van Lievens did a sub-mediocre copy of a detail from a Rubens, and then gave it an contrived ad hoc new backstory for added attention.

[Dukasaur]

Seriously, why would two Crusader enemy combatants be painted together in such a pose??

The posing is undoubtedly more symbolic than realistic, but Saladin and Guy did converse after the battle of Hattin and Saladin spared Guy's life.

I imagine this painting to represent the two of them looking out at the carnage they had created and sharing a moment of private horror.

Huh?, they're almost smiling?!

Don't look like smiles to me.

Guy looks pensive, contemplative, regretful.

Saladin looks more like this...

Though the smiles do seem somewhat fake, like the kind used to disguise a grimace of disgust, ...such as when looking at an ugly baby perhaps?

Or 30,000 mutilated corpses.

I am vindicated. There already seems to be widespread concensus that this Van Lievens also-ran 'heavily borrowed' from Peter Paul Rubens Adoration of the Magi paintings. It seems he really didn't do much more than fancifully interpret gold jewelry to be handcuffs, ...and of course, change the title. Seriously this painting is poor quality shlock that does nothing to reveal the supposed history, characters, setting, or theme. The composition, expressions, lack of background, foreground, etc. Everything is wrong. I honestly suspect that Van Lievens did a sub-mediocre copy of a detail from a Rubens, and then gave it an contrived ad hoc new backstory for added attention.

Fine, it's a shitty painting. But my costume was magnificent. Genuine silk.

[jusplay4fun]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

This?



or this?

[Votanic]

Last time I dressed up for Halloween was 1994. It was pretty cool.

I knew people in the SCA at the time. (Society for Creative Anachronism, the guys who do the medieval re-enactments.) My friend's mother was seamstress in the SCA, made some very realistic costumes. Anyway, she set me up with a Saladin costume, based on his outfit in the famous painting of Saladin meeting Guy of Lusignan. Not sure how historically authentic that was, but it was definitely cool looking.

This?



or this?

Duk already identified the first painting as the one he was referring to.

[DirtyDishSoap]

Since image uploading is no longer CC friendly and it just seems to hate anything, here was my costume.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fR2IesPkL.jpg

Really though, CC is not image friendly anymore lol.