ahh to be young and crazy about dressing up...

so marco and i went to my friend from school stefan's birthday. stefan is a little crazy about halloween (like me) so he wanted to have a halloween dress-up party. but my other friends thought that was lame so instead it was an 80's/halloween party. so you could come dressed up in a halloween costume or in an 80's costume or in an 80's halloween costume.

i personally luuuuurve dress-up but felt uninspired for this until the last minute. i tried to think of something cool i could be and figured on an 80's metal band groupie. i remember my childhood fondly, where i lived under the watchful gaze of hair band posters, so i figured this would be it. plus i had the whole get-up (shamefully, i actually own and worn all the stuff i'm wearing in this picture, but thankfully never all together-- and the hair was for costumes only) and didn't have to put any more money into it. that's always good incentive.

so i present to you, the DEF LEPPARD (my absolute favorite hair band of all time and the one i look most upon with fond memories) groupie.

um and here's marco, looking like he needs a parrot in his fall-back costume for every halloween and costume party, marco the pirate.