Yes, I dressed as one of the major cases from Civil Procedure, International Shoe. Now, don't judge me because that's a Converse which is an American label. At least I properly labeled myself!
How did I do it? Well...last weekend I spent some time putting together small scale models of a shoe with regular paper. The small scale models were pretty tough and I was discouraged from even attempting this project. Luckily I changed my mind. My backup costume was to go as "CambridgeCuti33" based upon our open memo assignment (which was about child pornography which is a whole other story), but I decided to give this one a go.
People asked if I had a pattern or anything. No, I didn't. I just put my own Converse on the table and started sketching it out with a regular old ruler, a pencil, and some creativity. Instead of painting each piece (which would have been a nightmare), I spray painted (and now my apartment has spray paint all over the outside walkway). The entire shoe is made out of posterboard. I layered posterboard pieces as there are layers on a regular Converse, used black Magic Marker to line the shoe as there are lines on a regular Converse. I spiral cut an old undershirt of The Outdoorsman's to make one long shoelace and then threaded that through and tied it around my neck to hold the thing up. I held it together with tape, staples, and rubber cement. All in all, with spray painting and assembling, the costume took roughly 4 hours to make (not counting the time it took to make the small models last weekend).
The funniest part is that people thought I'm naturally crafty. HAH! The same person who always says "I have good ideas, but I'd rather pay someone to put them together for me!" Hilarity.
I went with pink because it's my signature color (I'm the only one I've seen at my school with a pink laptop, to put it in perspective) and really, people wouldn't expect anything different. I had planned to put passport stamps on the shoe or wear a beret or something, but decided at the last minute that I'd invested enough time and money into my costume and scrapped it.
Me with the International Shoe salesmen. We're a hot team!
As for our section's Halloween costume competition, I came in third place. What do y'all think of those who finished ahead of me?
First Place: The Bluebook
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Second Place: Our property professor
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7 people testified:
You did NOT dress up as Int'l Shoe.
You looooooooooooooove law school.
Did anybody dress up as Burger King?
Yes, I did dress up as International Shoe :). No one did Burger King, but we did have a couple of Eries. There were two girls who dressed up as offensive and defensive nonmutual collateral estoppel. One guy as part of Lucy v Zehmer (from Ks). Those are perhaps the biggest ones that you may know.
No? You didn't. Sorry but your trio totes should have won (I hope WM doesn't follow your comments bc she doesn't like me saying totes so much and I said I'd stop, but it's so fitting here). Also, that's not Robin Williams as your prof, right?
OMG. Your costume is amazing! You should have won first place. The costume of the first place guy (girl?) was lame in comparison.
Hee, my word verification word was "tator."
3rd place? You were robbed!!!
awesome.
love winnie's word verification.
architects are...sluttier on halloween. granted we had undergrads at our party.
I LOVE IT!!! I agree, you were totally robbed!
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