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October 15, 2009
Judy Wu
This Halloween, French teacher Jennifer Pardini is going to her cousin’s birthday party located in a barn at Santa Cruz. She plans to be dressed as a flapper. Usually, she would dress up, pass out candy and then head to The Castro, located in San Francisco. This year, however, Pardini has decided to not go to the district filled with stylish restaurants and stores. But she can still recall many great Halloween moments she has had.
“One Halloween, I took a picture of a couple of guys who were dressed as Hooter girls. The next day, I showed my students the picture and the boys kept denying that they were boys. They would say, ‘No, they’re really girls. Are you kidding?’ It was hilarious,” Pardini said.
Pardini has had countless funny costumes. One year, she dressed up as a target with fake knives stabbed into the costume; she even had an apple with an arrow on her head. Last Halloween, Pardini was dressed as Cinderella, complete with a blond wig and sparkly dress. This Halloween, Pardini says her costume at school will be a surprise.
Photo Credit: Celina Cesena
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October 14, 2009
Sarah deLanda
For senior Celina Cesena, Halloween gained its allure after elementary school. Once she was free from the countless, oppressive Disney princess costumes, Celina discovered she had both a love and talent for putting costumes together.
“Wigs really are the key,” Cesena said. “That’s what everyone looks at – the hair!”
However, her hair is not the most time consuming part of the process. The planning and searching that goes into making her costumes starts as early as three months before Halloween. And actually piecing it together? Some of her more elaborate costumes have taken up to a week’s worth of meticulous work. With all the details, sometimes comes discomfort, the most extreme of which is attributed to her geisha costume.
“It always comes back to the geisha; that was the least planned one,” she said.
By the end of that particular day, wooden shoes, an entire coat of face paint and the restrictive dress itself could be felt a thousand fold.
Cesena takes pride in her costumes and they are well-received and appreciated. Donning a house and over a witch’s dress, striped socks and ruby slippers, she took second place in the school’s costume contest during the Halloween rally just last year.
“The Wicked Witch of the East was probably the best idea I ever had,” she said. This year, Celina already has her costume planned out and is particularly excited for the hair and persona it will demand of her. As for the future, Cesena admits that while college might force her into hiatus, she intends to continue making her costumes until it loses its fun.
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