I think my mother said something once about her relatives putting lampshades on their heads at parties when she was young, and her feeling terribly embarrassed by it; but then her side of the family were/are a clan of frustrated vaudevillians.
Some neighbours borrowed a couple of our lampshades for Hallowe’en costumes, but they actually dressed up as lamps—had cardboard or heavy paper rolled around themselves to represent the bases—so it wasn’t quite the same thing.
I tried putting a lampshade on my own head this morning before work. I can’t tell how it looked, because I couldn’t see through it.
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Date: 2019-10-18 02:25 pm (UTC)From:Me neither. Alack?
I think my mother said something once about her relatives putting lampshades on their heads at parties when she was young, and her feeling terribly embarrassed by it; but then her side of the family were/are a clan of frustrated vaudevillians.
Some neighbours borrowed a couple of our lampshades for Hallowe’en costumes, but they actually dressed up as lamps—had cardboard or heavy paper rolled around themselves to represent the bases—so it wasn’t quite the same thing.
I tried putting a lampshade on my own head this morning before work. I can’t tell how it looked, because I couldn’t see through it.