Wearing a skirt on Halloween?

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Re: Wearing a skirt on Halloween?

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In Scotland there was always some 'activity' around Halloween including stuff that would nowadays be regarded as trick or treating. Guisers would dress up and go round houses in their own community reciting verse and expecting sweets or money. If they didn't get this, gates would be taken off their hinges or other pranks would be inflicted. The day was associated with witchcraft and children in school would make a witch hat or a broomstick. Lanterns were made out of turnips or, as they are known in much of the country, neeps. I have never tried either but I imagine carving out a pumpkin would be a lot easier. And of course the dressing up could involve boys wearing skirts and dresses.
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Myopic Bookworm wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:11 am
ScotL wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:36 am If you don’t want to be part of it, don’t, but no need to disapprove of it. Just seems like an odd reaction to me.
I disapprove of people spending their money on plastic crap that they will throw away tomorrow. As far as I know, "trick or treat" was practically unknown in the UK until the film "E.T." became popular: before then, kids would make a mock Guy Fawkes figure and beg for pennies to spend on fireworks (or candy). Now I think the idea is gradually penetrating that your British neighbours may not like being blackmailed into handing out sweets to people in costume just because that's what Americans like to do.
I agree we shouldn’t be buying plastic crap for single use, but are you suggesting that only happens at Halloween?? Is Halloween solely responsible for all the plastic in the oceans?

You can love or hate Halloween. That’s your choice. But if your not a fan, fine. But why be so negative and disapprove something others like? Why care so much about one thing you don’t even participate in…
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Ozdelights wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:56 am [...]
But for those who wish to celebrate, go for it. Just like fashion it's your choice.
Choosing to "Trick or Treat" is chosing to inflict something on other people who may not want it.
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ScotL wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:36 am Guess that’s my question. In your post, you disapprove of Halloween. Why not just let those who want to do Halloween do it and those that want to celebrate Sint Maarten do so. If you don’t want to be part of it, don’t, but no need to disapprove of it. Just seems like an odd reaction to me.
I don't recall saying I disapproved. I'm just conveying some of the general sentiment I hear. The local school sent out leaflets saying people wanting to take part could give their addresses so the kids knew where to go. I didn't sign up.

I think celebrating Easter and Ascension Day is dumb too, but that's not disapproval. Nor is it approval. People can do what they like. I'll take the days off though.
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When I was a kid in the 60’s and 70’s in Dublin we dressed up on Hallowe’en and called to our neighbours. The phrase we used wasn’t “Trick or Treat” it was simply “Help the Hallowe’en Party”. We wore masks with our homemade costumes and the only goodies on offer for the party were nuts of all types and fruit and NEVER sweets or money.

We played Hallowe’en games like Apple Bobbing during the day before going out where an apple was placed in a basin of water and you took turns to try and take a bite out of it without using your hands. Don’t think kids would be too interested in that nowadays.

I think Trick or Treat came much later to Ireland and the phrase was definitely imported from America via television and movies.
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My kids still do apple bobbing: also eating an apple hanging on a string without using your hands.
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pelmut wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:30 pm
Ozdelights wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:56 am [...]
But for those who wish to celebrate, go for it. Just like fashion it's your choice.
Choosing to "Trick or Treat" is choosing to inflict something on other people who may not want it.
At least around here, people turn on the light outside their front doors to indicate they are participating.
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rode_kater wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:00 pm
ScotL wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:36 am Guess that’s my question. In your post, you disapprove of Halloween. Why not just let those who want to do Halloween do it and those that want to celebrate Sint Maarten do so. If you don’t want to be part of it, don’t, but no need to disapprove of it. Just seems like an odd reaction to me.
I don't recall saying I disapproved. I'm just conveying some of the general sentiment I hear. The local school sent out leaflets saying people wanting to take part could give their addresses so the kids knew where to go. I didn't sign up.

I think celebrating Easter and Ascension Day is dumb too, but that's not disapproval. Nor is it approval. People can do what they like. I'll take the days off though.
Sorry, you are correct. You never said “disapproved”. You quoted me and I thought you quoting that was because you wrote the original. I assumed and didn’t check. My bad. Mea culpa.
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pelmut wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:30 pm
Ozdelights wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:56 am [...]
But for those who wish to celebrate, go for it. Just like fashion it's your choice.
Choosing to "Trick or Treat" is chosing to inflict something on other people who may not want it.
It’s an old time statement. I haven’t seen tricks being played in a longtime. And the tricks I remember was TPing someone’s house. But that wasn’t because it was a trick or treat episode. There was usually some other sentiment that just used the trick part of Halloween to play it.
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rivegauche wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:42 am In Scotland there was always some 'activity' around Halloween including stuff that would nowadays be regarded as trick or treating. Guisers would dress up and go round houses in their own community reciting verse and expecting sweets or money. If they didn't get this, gates would be taken off their hinges or other pranks would be inflicted. The day was associated with witchcraft and children in school would make a witch hat or a broomstick. Lanterns were made out of turnips or, as they are known in much of the country, neeps. I have never tried either but I imagine carving out a pumpkin would be a lot easier. And of course the dressing up could involve boys wearing skirts and dresses.
I love carving pumpkins. It’s not hard and you can make clever faces or designs that look amazing when lit up by a candle. And roasted pumpkins seeds with butter/salt are unbelievably awesome.
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Re: Wearing a skirt on Halloween?

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Midas wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:18 pm We never have celebrated halloween and continue to view it as an American invader that has more to do with commercialism. What passes for trick or treaters generally amounts to teenagers wearing masks and demanding money with menaces.
That’s not Halloween. I don’t know where you live but that’s crazy. I used to live on a street that went all out and we had people from all over the city showing up in costumes. People weren’t menacing. No one got money. And generally it was just a great night doing something you didn’t do the rest of the year. Whatever happens where you live shouldn’t be associated with what actually happens.
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Sinned wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:31 am I was rather hoping that the lockdowns and restrictions due to covid would kill the trick or treating. It seems to have succeeded where I live.
Not sure where you live either but the rule on Halloween was always keep the front porch light off and no one comes. The comments on this thread are so weird to me. Why the negativity of something you do not have to take part in? On a website that doesn’t want others to be judgmental of a man’s decision to wear a skirt, the thoughts on Halloween have been remarkably judgmental. Why? Live and let live. Why do so many people even care??
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wore this to work one halloween, i worked on the sales floor of a store. one of my favorite out fits.
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Re: Wearing a skirt on Halloween?

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I can honestly say that I have never seen anyone dress any differently on October 31 than any other day here down under.
Halloween is not something that really features here, although you will very occasionally see a house with thinly stretched dacron stuffing across the front fence with a tacky looing plastic spider stuck in the middle around that time.

I think I saw one group of very young kids running around with a mum or dad that evening but that would have been all over with before 5pm.
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I love the skirt and matching top. Suave. I nearly wore a Xmas swing dress to my shop floor on Xmas Eve with the approval of colleagues but my wife very firmly over-ruled it. She threatened the D word, though she has calmed down a bit now.
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