Halloween 2013 - Part I: Scooby-Doo, Where are you?

Halloween! The favoritest of holidays for cosplayers. You get to view all the "normals" out there participating in your most favorite of activities. As you may have noticed from previous posts we suck at taking pictures of ourselves in costumes but this year we went to two different events are were smart enough to actually get a photographer (our most favorite Victoria Hall) for one, and ran into one at the other!

Miss Hall is still sending us some photos on the first, so I'm writing about the second, first. If that makes any sense.

All this started because I bought a pair of purple boots on a whim because:
1) They were Purple Pirate Boots (all that and I don't have a pic of the BOOTS?!?! We really suck)
2) They were on sale at ShoeDazzle (of note: if you're Canadian, only buy on sale!)

When Dejathoris found out about the boots I was proclaimed Daphne, ending the Geek Girl battle of Who-Gets-To-Be-Velma, which has lasted the better half of a decade. Also, I was totally up for it, since I saw these amazing shots of Scoobie Zombie Hunters over on io9. I wasn't able to transform my Daphne into a hunter for this year's Zombie walk (Dejathoris had a wedding to go to, lame), but hopefully next year!

The nice thing about the Scoobies is that they are pretty simple. I already dye my hair red on a regular basis, Blond Surfer wig for Fred, short brown wig for Velma. We left Shaggy's hair as is (that's Mr Dejathoris', he just lets us drag him into cosplay on occasion).

Daphne
We found a purple dress at Value Village (VV) and added the light purple arm bands. We didn't add the stripes at the bottom since the dress had this bubble-hem and would just look strange. Pair that with light purple tights and the aforementioned boots, made a headband & scarf and voila!

Fred
Purchased a light blue shirt and small white sweater at VV, paired with jeans, made the orange ascot, and wig. Done. Guavious was on days off so we told him it was fine he didn't shave off the beard. He so rarely gets days where he doesn't have to shave so we let him have it.

Shaggy
A big and tall store had a size 6XLT T-Shirt which he wore swimmingly, paired with his Shreck pants from last year. Done.

Velma
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND ORANGE SOCKS?!?!?! We tried to modify tights (fail), Soccer socks (fail), dyed socks with the cheaper dye (fail), then finally went with what we should have done in the first place and used the good dye (RIT) and dyed a pair of white socks. Paired with an orange turtleneck and red skirt, some cute red mary janes from VV and some hipster glasses.

While we were out and about we ran into a photographer that has apparently been making the rounds at all the cons, doing only black and white photos of profiles. Well he got some amazing shots and I have to share. All the rest of his work is up on his Flickr.

Funny side note, a woman commented on Penny Lane (the amazing jacket I also found at VV) saying "If there's any night to wear a ridiculous jacket, it's Halloween!" not knowing I have essentially worn that coat EVERYDAY since I bought it.

Oh, and why wasn't Scooby there? We were on the Case of the missing Scoob.

Random Notes

- Those "normals" we talk about? Here's a pair that were visiting us for the Flames vs Leafs game we dragged into it
- At said Flames/Leafs game Guavious and I dressed up and added our jerseye all prep style to our backs. People didn't know we were in costume.. WTF?
- My "editor" (Guavious) and I are discussing the proper spelling of Scooby vs Scoobies, it's funny
- Holy shit! A post within a week of the event??? Consider this the exception, not the rule (not that I don't try)


As always, our entire photo collection is up on our Flickr.