Obsolete

Email, photo reply, reblog or tweet (#obsoletecostume) a pic of old tech-inspired Halloween costumes for a chance to win a signed copy of Obsolete and an accompanying care package of obsolete gewgaws (delivered by USPS! Old school!).

Here are some of my previously-posted faves:

Portable cell phone booth.

Polaroid head, photographed by Polaroid, of course.

Trench coat? Check. Vintage boombox? Check. Only thing is that mine is pink… (via Lindsayism)

I spotted this one at the Halloween Parade in New Paltz, NY. They were “Duct Tape.” Get it?

Another approach to the Polaroid costume.

Nothing like a good data-storage disguise.

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I just saw this couple at the Main Street Halloween parade in New Paltz, NY. She is some kind of platypus and he is an obsolete audio cassette. Oh no wait: he’s a tape and she’s a duck. They’re tape duck. Duck tape! But isn’t it DUCT tape? Clearly it’s cooler to dress up as an audio cassette than it is to dress up like aluminum tubing.

I think the real Broadway-bound costume-making brains are down in NYC tonight. But it’s awfully cute to see all the little kids and adults alike running down main street in tiaras and bedroom sheets.

Conversation with my friends’ daughter Violet. She is 3 and dressed like a princess:

Me: What is your costume?

Violet: Violet!

Me: Do you want a sticker? You have to say “Trick or treat!”

Violet: Trick or treat!

Me: Now you say “thank you.”

Violet: Thank you!

Her mom: Now say “This year your soul will be spared.”

Violet: This year your soul will be spared.

Thank goodness.