in honor of Halloween (flashback)

I’ve dressed up as a musician for Halloween exactly once: In October 2010, after seeing a Jenny and Johnny show, I realized that the closest I can come to Actually Being Jenny Lewis is probably to dress as her for Halloween.

[caption id=”attachment_4115219785" align=”aligncenter” width=”407" caption=”Actual Jenny Lewis, playing a show in New Haven, Conn. in October 2010. (My photo, with my clearly-on-its-way-out camera.)”]

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I went into this with a full awareness that absolutely no one would know who I was. Spoiler alert: This turned out to be correct. (Keep in mind that the parties I was attending were in White Plains, N.Y., and Bethel, Conn. And that it was 2010, not 2003.)

[caption id=”attachment_411521" align=”aligncenter” width=”490" caption=”No one wanted to go as the Watson Twins. Maybe another year.”]

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Anyway, I used this promo photo from the Rabbit Fur Coat era as inspiration (and miraculously found a “honey blonde mod” wig at the mall):

And the results:

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[caption id=”attachment_4115219789" align=”aligncenter” width=”222" caption=”The real JLew would obviously never stoop so low as to take a cameraphone self-portrait”]

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[caption id=”attachment_411521" align=”aligncenter” width=”192" caption=”Full-length-ish”]

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I know, the face is all wrong. (And my camera was really sadly on its way out by then.)

But there’s a cool part. A few days later, I came across a random fan-recorded concert video on YouTube. It’s Actual Jenny Lewis, also on Halloween 2010. A couple screencaps:

[caption id=”attachment_4115219791" align=”aligncenter” width=”300" caption=”Totally coordinated with my costume”]

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[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”300" caption=”…down to the necklace”]

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