Streetwise Streetwise (October 26, 2005)

What is your favorite Halloween costume that you've worn?
Question and interviews by Jenny Lim, photographs by Brian Connelly. Asked at Peet's Coffee and near Whole Foods on Homer Avenue.

Seksom Suriyapa
Webroot Software employee
Homer Avenue, Palo Alto
"Recently I wore a floor-length sequined dress to be a diva. It was the most outrageous thing I've ever worn."

Kari Kirkpatrick
Stay-at-home mom
Coleridge Street, Palo Alto
"I went as 'Carrie' one year, because my name is Kari and I wanted to be shocking. So I wore a prom dress covered in fake blood."

Amy Carlow
Yoga teacher
Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
"When I was 7-years-old, I was a chimney. My mom made my costume out of wire hangers covered with crepe paper, and she drew the bricks. I carried some nylons stuffed with newspaper for 'smoke.'"

Earl Dworkin
Insurance agency owner
Otterson Court, Palo Alto
"I dressed up like (American cowboy) Tom Mix. Every boy wanted to be a cowboy when I was 5."

Ricky Leyva
Nursing student at San Francisco State University
Park Boulevard, Palo Alto
"I got inside a real pumpkin that was carved up. I wore a pumpkin when I was 3, 4 and 5 -- until I couldn't fit inside a pumpkin anymore."

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