Debbie Easley's Gangster-Costumed Halloween Plans

Benjamin Leatherman

Debbie Easley

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What are you wearing for Halloween?
Believe it or not, I think we're gonna be gangsters. Me and my significant other, my "partner in crime," if you will.

Is it handmade or from the store?
It's funny, we've got all this variety and so many things to choose from here, but we decided to get something simple and nice and easy from the store's rentals. And to be honest with you, I hate taking something that's maybe the last one of in the store. But what we do with our staff is pretty much whatever's left out of our rental costumes, they get to choose from.

Where will you wear your costumes?
I think we're maybe going to a couple parties before Halloween. Both of 'em will be house parties. We're not bar people.

What's the best costume you've ever seen?
We've got some really drop dead beautiful King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth costumes, just some really elegant and elaborate outfits. Also some gorgeous Southern Belle costumes. They're romantic and they're beautiful.

What three things no one should ever be for Halloween?
It depends on the year. If it's the year that Lady Diana died, you don't want to be that. That's offensive. You never want to be a Klu Klux Klan member. Or Osama. You don't want to be a terrorist. People come in and say, "Do you have a terrorist costume?" And I always tell them no. "Do you have a Nazi costume?" No. Never wear anything that's racially offensive.

Carol Easley (Debbie's mother): We actually have a Nazi costume. It's for The Sound of Music, if someone was doing it. We do not bring it to the floor, we don't rent that on Halloween. Anything like that we would not rent, but we might have it for a certain play. People wouldn't know we'd have it because you'd never see it.

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