Wigs, tight pants, makeup, and walkman’s
It’s been a while since the last dress up party, but this year for Damien’s Bday an 80’s theme party was organise. I had no idea what the 80’s was about as I was still a young’un and running around in shorts and t-shirts. But for the laughs decided to wear some old looking clothes and super tight pants.
How this started was I raided dad’s wardrobe. Firstly trying on a few T-shirts and shirts. Once I picked out the shirt it was onto the pants. I have a waist size of 33, and have always hated tight pants, but thought ok, it’s a party might as well dress up, so decided to try on dads Size 28 pants.
This was a painful experience but highly entertaining for my brother. Eventually, we figured that it was too tight and if I wanted children in the future, it was best to try something else. Now my brother has some size 30 pants and they seemed to match the pants so I gave them a go and low and behold I could just get in., but I doubt I would be able to sit down. So I went with that and next thing to do was to get my hair done.
Karina and I went around Paddy’s market looking for some wigs to buy. But the first few stores the prices started up around the $50 mark. For a once off thought hmmm, I’d have to say some of the styles they have there were pretty cool. The first store I went to all I can remember is the mullet styles, but also the shop assistant who was putting the wig on had some really bad breath, and she kept breathing on me, didn’t want to tell her I wasn’t going to buy the wig cause of her breath.. sheesh. Breath Mints anyone.
Eventually we found the wig and the costume was ready to put to use. Karina managed to borrow an outfit from someone who went to an 80’s party so all it took was make-up and we were ready to go. Except I had to take the pants off and put them on at Damien’s place.
Everyone got into the party theme and dressed up a bit. There was a bit of bling bling floating around and a lot of the girls were wearing some funky outfits. Doug never ceases to amazing me with his cataloguing skills and produced an awesome outfit of overalls and his walkman. But to top it off he brought his Cassette music collection all organised.
So now it was the moment of truth everyone waiting around the corner quietly ready to surprise Damo, it dragged out for a bit , but eventually he rounded the corner to be greeted by 30-40 ppl dressed all weird looking screaming “SURPRISE!!!”
What followed is priceless, Damo, jumped like he stepped on a rat, then ran down the road like lava was pouring down the mountain. (video will be up soon of this) After he calmed down and managed finding it safe to return to his own home, the celebrations began. Poor little Jaiden was terrified after hearing the screams, but he too settled down after a drive around with Linda.
Great night of laughing at everyone’s outfit and thinking, we should do this again! I might give the tight pants a miss tho, had to spend the whole night standing in fear of ripping my brother's pants. But really cause I couldn't really bend down to sit. But it was all in the name of fun. Here are some photos from the night. More to come.
How this started was I raided dad’s wardrobe. Firstly trying on a few T-shirts and shirts. Once I picked out the shirt it was onto the pants. I have a waist size of 33, and have always hated tight pants, but thought ok, it’s a party might as well dress up, so decided to try on dads Size 28 pants.
This was a painful experience but highly entertaining for my brother. Eventually, we figured that it was too tight and if I wanted children in the future, it was best to try something else. Now my brother has some size 30 pants and they seemed to match the pants so I gave them a go and low and behold I could just get in., but I doubt I would be able to sit down. So I went with that and next thing to do was to get my hair done.
Karina and I went around Paddy’s market looking for some wigs to buy. But the first few stores the prices started up around the $50 mark. For a once off thought hmmm, I’d have to say some of the styles they have there were pretty cool. The first store I went to all I can remember is the mullet styles, but also the shop assistant who was putting the wig on had some really bad breath, and she kept breathing on me, didn’t want to tell her I wasn’t going to buy the wig cause of her breath.. sheesh. Breath Mints anyone.
Eventually we found the wig and the costume was ready to put to use. Karina managed to borrow an outfit from someone who went to an 80’s party so all it took was make-up and we were ready to go. Except I had to take the pants off and put them on at Damien’s place.
Everyone got into the party theme and dressed up a bit. There was a bit of bling bling floating around and a lot of the girls were wearing some funky outfits. Doug never ceases to amazing me with his cataloguing skills and produced an awesome outfit of overalls and his walkman. But to top it off he brought his Cassette music collection all organised.
So now it was the moment of truth everyone waiting around the corner quietly ready to surprise Damo, it dragged out for a bit , but eventually he rounded the corner to be greeted by 30-40 ppl dressed all weird looking screaming “SURPRISE!!!”
What followed is priceless, Damo, jumped like he stepped on a rat, then ran down the road like lava was pouring down the mountain. (video will be up soon of this) After he calmed down and managed finding it safe to return to his own home, the celebrations began. Poor little Jaiden was terrified after hearing the screams, but he too settled down after a drive around with Linda.
Great night of laughing at everyone’s outfit and thinking, we should do this again! I might give the tight pants a miss tho, had to spend the whole night standing in fear of ripping my brother's pants. But really cause I couldn't really bend down to sit. But it was all in the name of fun. Here are some photos from the night. More to come.
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9.12.06
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