What Are You Guanabee For Halloween?
29 October 2007, 2:25 PM. By Alex Alvarez
While your friends and neighbors are content to dress as slutty insects, slutty mammals or slutty household appliances this Halloween, you can stand apart from the candy-corn-fed masses by donning a chola costume. “But what’s a chola?” you might ask in your sugar-induced haze. Only the best subculture phenomena ever, ese! Cindy Mosqueda of Loteria Chicanashows you how:
1980s style chola
Pendleton shirt over a white t-shirt or ribbed tank
Baggy Dickies (khaki colored) held up with a black letter belt
Nike Cortez or other old school sneakers
Long, permed hair; tease up your bangs (the higher, the better; use AquaNet liberally)
Dark makeup, heavy on the eyeliner and lipliner
Gold script name on a necklace or a small cross
The three dots or a tear drop
Bonus: a new name (e.g., la Sad Girl, Smiley or Shy One)
We’d like to point out that on the East Coast, you could opt to dress like a “chonga” instead. The costume is basically the same, only with less flannel and tear drop tattoos and more acrylic nails and shrines built to Pitbull and Daddy Yankee.
Halloween on a budget: old school chola [Loteria Chicana]
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I would LOVE to be “El Vez”:http://elvez.net/ for Halloween (if I can get my lazy ass to acquire the following):
-Vinyl Santa pants with overalls and anarchy t-shirt or tank top. (Jumpsuits work too…)
-Tres-flores brillantine to shape into a tailfin pompadour
-sharpie for applying super-thin stache above upper lip
-”lots of mexicanalia”:http://www.2bhifi.com/kiki/elvez/elvez3.jpg
-generously shake hips until you reach desired temperature
“And voila!”:http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2006/12/elvez.jpg
Trickotree!!!
@p_g_a_n: if you hang out on manhunt, you might catch El Vez and he might have an old jumpsuit ready for you.
and a prezzie, if you’re up for it.
@el smrtmnky: excellent suggestion. i’m afraid i’m running out of time, though. i’d have to pass up on the prezzie, though: mi novia might be jealous.