Costume Parties

Intro

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• dress up
• persona
• full on
• go all out

• going away party
• theme party
• costume party
• head-to-toe

• stay in character
• incognito

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A Simpsons party. A boy band party. A pink party. A mustache party. There is a nearly infinite number of theme parties you can throw when a plain old birthday party or house party just doesn’t seem exciting enough.

It can be fun to see how all your friends dress up for a theme party or costume party. Some people like to go crazy with head-to-toe costumes, while others prefer to just be themselves. Let’s find out what kind of costumes Devan and Amy would wear to a party at your house.

Dialog

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Devan

Amy

Devan:  So do usually dress up for Halloween?

Amy:  I actually don’t really love Halloween and am not a huge fan of dressing up in general.

Devan:  So you don’t like costume parties or theme parties?

Amy:  I kind of like theme parties, but I like it to be a kind of party where you can be yourself but sort of with a twist, rather than going totally incognito and taking on a completely different persona.

Devan:  So you don’t want to wear like a full-on mask and costume, but if it was like a 40s party or something like that you would be willing to wear a 40s dress.

Amy:  Yeah. That’s more what I’m into. How about you?

Devan:  Um, yeah, I like doing that. I think that things where you can be real cute are fun, but sometimes it’s fun for me to just go completely like all out. Like one time my friends had a Spice Girls party, like everyone had to go as different Spice Girls, so I went as Baby Spice and had like furry hair ties…And another one of my friends had for his going away party, his favorite TV show is Arrested Development, so everyone dressed up like characters from the show, which was real fun.

Amy:  So, did you feel like it changed the way you acted at the party? Like did you sort of take on the role of that person when you were dressed that way?

Devan:  Totally. I definitely took on their persona, you know, like trying to stay in character all night, which is really hard. Once you get a few drinks in you it’s hard to keep a character and keep an accent going.

Amy:  Yeah.

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