in the details.

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 Manny Pacquiao

World Champion Filipino Boxer

Originally, we were mulling over two Halloween costume ideas for the kid.  One of them was to dress him up as Psy of "Gangnam Style" fame, and to make it a family costume I would be the skinny yellow-suit guy with the bowl cut hairstyle and Matt would be one of the female back-up dancers in the white tunic top and silver hot pants, but waaaay too difficult to put together.  And then the other idea was to dress him up as Kim Jong-il, but I thought that would be in bad form since he was known to be a not very nice person.  But Ez would have been a dead ringer for him, don't you think...

    

Ok, maybe not so much.

But Matt had an epiphany while perusing through the sports section at Value Village.  He saw some boxing gloves and it was an obvious decision.  So we proceeded to find the pieces that would come together to form the famous boxer's costume.  We even lucked out finding the perfect boxing booties.  To make it even more authentic I sewed a "Pacquiao" waistband and sponsorship labels on the shorts, and put a Filipino flag on the robe (if you're wondering about the orange thing on the robe hood, it's a duck bill).  I had no idea what I was doing since I don't sew but I think the whole thing turned out pretty sweet.  Matt did an amazing job transforming orange mittens to boxing gloves with red duct tape (he even added thumbs), and drew a sexy six-pack on a onesie.  The last distinguishing piece was the goatee which I made and sewed onto a soother.  It's a pretty sad looking goatee but it completes the costume.

Without the fake six-pack, in all his kegger-belly glory...

 

 

The whole fam in costume.  Can you guess what Matt and I are?  Stole the ideas from other people, but we went the witty pun/cheezy costume route.