Who wore a black veil in the 80's?

KikiteNeko · Mar 31, 2009

My 12-year-old MC is going to own a black veil. I want to say it's leftover from a halloween costume... Who is a famous character, in the 1980's, who might have worn a black veil and was popular enough to inspire a halloween costume?

TheIT · Mar 31, 2009

Elvira, perhaps, though she was mostly known for a black dress with a plunging neckline.

firedrake · Mar 31, 2009

I want to say Madonna wore one in a video. I just can't remember which one.
'Like a Prayer', perhaps.

alleycat · Mar 31, 2009

Maybe . . . Scheherazade. Or a harem girl. That could have been a Halloween costume.

mscelina · Mar 31, 2009

Madonna did in the "Like a Virgin" video. She also wore a black veil (perhaps from some psychic warning) when she married Sean Penn. Cyndi Lauper wore a top hat with a black veil for some of the promo pics for "She's so Unusual".

TheIT · Mar 31, 2009

A black veil makes me think of deep mourning back when hats were in style for women. Instead of a Halloween costume, maybe the veil came from your MC's grandmother.

KikiteNeko · Mar 31, 2009

TheIT said:
A black veil makes me think of deep mourning back when hats were in style for women. Instead of a Halloween costume, maybe the veil came from your MC's grandmother.

Well she's going to wear it TO a funeral, but I want there to be some childhood foolishness to it, such as a halloween costume.

Rabe · Mar 31, 2009

tomothecat said:
Well she's going to wear it TO a funeral, but I want there to be some childhood foolishness to it, such as a halloween costume.

Elvira wasn't exactly known for wearing a veil...or anything to really cover up.

But didn't the first Adams Family movie come out in time for this to be viable? Morticia Adams would definitely be 'veiled'.

And wasn't Madonna's 'white' in "Like A Virgin"?

But I'm also wondering what kind of 'veil' you're refering to? Something more like a bridal veil or like the little hats with the black screen in front of them. Because those type were immensely popular and you could be aping characters from Falcon's Crest, Dynasty, Dallas - etc.

Rabe...

blackrose602 · Apr 1, 2009

The first thing that popped into my mind was Lydia, Winona Ryder's character in Beetlejuice. I was 12 when that movie came out (1988), and though I never actually had a black veil, I adored the character. I'd imagine there were some Lydia costumes out there...

PastMidnight · Apr 2, 2009

blackrose602 said:
The first thing that popped into my mind was Lydia, Winona Ryder's character in Beetlejuice. I was 12 when that movie came out (1988), and though I never actually had a black veil, I adored the character. I'd imagine there were some Lydia costumes out there...

Ditto. That's exactly who I was thinking of.

Eldritch · Apr 3, 2009

PastMidnight said:
Ditto. That's exactly who I was thinking of.

Same here.

Rabe · Apr 6, 2009

blackrose602 said:
The first thing that popped into my mind was Lydia, Winona Ryder's character in Beetlejuice. I was 12 when that movie came out (1988), and though I never actually had a black veil, I adored the character. I'd imagine there were some Lydia costumes out there...

That is true and there was a 'veil like' thing for the wedding scene.

Which was, I believe, also the costume of choice for the cartoon series.

Rabe...

Who wore a black veil in the 80's?

KikiteNeko

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TheIT

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firedrake

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