What do people dress up as for Halloween? Spotted at last night’s Virtual Insanity party:

• 2 gladiators
• a Disney-esque princess
• 2 belly-dancers
• a ninja
• Emily the Strange
• a pair of Al Capone-esque mobsters
• a Vietcong soldier
• a biker dude
• a pirate
• a junior college student and convent schoolgirl
• Phua Chu Kang! (though sans mole and bad perm)
• Morticia Addams
• Jason from Friday the 13th
• several cowboys, including one outfitted with a stuffed horse-head from Ikea, and a cowgirl (me)

I think the Emily the Strange outfit won the prize hands-down for the most spot-on and self-assembled get-up.

Over supper at the Beo Crescent Teochew moi (porridge) place later, there were a couple other people with blood-and-gore-smeared faces. Pretty surreal for Tiong Bahru at 2 am.

Besides the usual costume shops, it seems that Far East Plaza was a good place to hit for D-I-Y costumes. The friend of mine who came as a vampire bought the entire outfit at Lips. Lips! I haven’t been there since I was in secondary school in the late ’80s.

Edited to add (Nov 1):
For more Halloween goodness, check out these posts in the Metblog family: blogging.la, Berlin, Lahore, NYC and, on a sadly tragic note, San Francisco.