Perhaps the first costume in my "Halloween career" that I designed for myself. Not much, I grant you, but hey — I was only eight.
The key element was the novelty-shop dark glasses (with plastic, possibly green (?) frames) with blinking red LEDs mounted on the surface of the lenses, just off-center. The LEDs were controlled by a momentary-on pushbuttton at the end of a wire coming off the left "arm" of the frames. A 9-volt battery plugged directly into the bottom of the rectangular button housing, doing double-duty as a handgrip. The cape and its high collar helped disguise the mundane technical explanation behind the dramatically-appropriate blinking of my glowing red eyes.
With me in this photo, which appeared in the 1980-1981 edition of the Carden Christian School yearbook, are the other costume contest winners from my class. We have Ian Long (I think — might've been Garrick Frost) as an elephant, Susan Schultz as a "Little House on the Prairie" girl, Matt Hughes as a scientist (a costume choice that would utterly fail to surprise, if you knew Matt and his love affair with science), and finally Lisa Wood as a baby.
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