A recent post on Jezebel has inspired me to browse slutty hallowe’en costumes, but I cannot find much that speaks to my experience as a pasty cubicle dweller who actually has a really enjoyable job. So, to live my secret fantasy of pretending I am a naughty pasty cubicle dweller who actually has a really enjoyable job and an all-too-repressed wild side, I present the slutty game designer costume ensemble:
- baggy jeans
- sabre-toothed lime T-shirt
- Fluevogs in desperate need of a shine
- fishnets
The advantages of this costume are the minimal investment costs (and when I say “minimal investment costs” I mean “picked up off of my bedroom floor and maybe shaken out”) and the fact that almost all of the pieces can be reintegrated into my day-to-day wardrobe after the celebration.
The idea is at best lame and at worst terrible, but it’s mine and I’m willing to take ownership of it.
For minimal cost, it isn’t that bad. It beats my $40 investment. Although, I am getting some mileage out of part of it already. Although the highlight of my costume will be free, and worth some reaction value.
Or maybe not. I might think too highly of myself… we’ll see.
I am curious to imagine how many people in occupation of game designer, wish that there were someone else doing something completely different. I wonder this as I have known many a designer who has been through many torments (endless crunch time, poor coworkers) and still enjoy the job enough to keep doing it project after project, company after company.
Thankfully I am not in a tormented position. I enjoy the job I have and I am thankful everyday to be doing it.
I got away with $17.50. Who would have thought that Frederick’s of Hollywood would have fishnet thigh-highs on hand? I opted to not get the ones with the dainty little handcuff replicas dangling from the top band.
That would have been funny.
The height I would have had to pull my pants leg up to to show them off wouldn’t.