Redhead women’s costumes…

1. Pippi Longstocking
The hero of every little girl and more than a few big ones.
“‘Well then,’ said Pippi. ‘You’ll have to get kids for your children’s home somewhere else. I certainly don’t intend to move there.’”

2. Wilma Flintstone
The hottest stone age MILF. How did Fred hook her?
“Oh Fred!”

3. Jessica Rabbit

The most sultry redheaded toon to grace the big screen.
“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”

4. Jane Jetson
The very patient space age wife of George.
“Elroy!”

5. Daphne from Scooby Doo
Fight crime old school style. Zoinks!
“Would you do it for a Scoobie Snack?”

6. Raggedy Anne
Of dolls and dames.
“Candy hearts and paper flowers will always keep me close to you.”

7. Leeloo
The Perfect Being from the fifth element.
“Me fifth element – supreme being. Me protect you.”

8. Anne of Green Gables
The redheaded orphan from Prince Edward Island.
“It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it? ”

9. Little Orphan Annie
Another redheaded orphan. Hopefully Daddy Warbucks will find you!
“The sun will come out tomorrow”

10. Ariel
The Little Mermaid from the Disney movie.
“I just don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.”

Redhead men’s costumes…

1. Alfred E. Newman
Mad magazine’s iconic cover boy and fictional mascot.
“What me worry?”

2. William Shakespeare
Of course a man of this talent must be a redhead!
“Is many a man has more hair than wit”

3. Green Lantern
Yes his alter ego Guy Gardener is a redhead.
“And I shall shed my light over dark evil… for, the dark things cannot stand the light… the light of the Green Lantern”

4. Grounds Keeper Willie
The Springfield Elementary School Caretaker from The Simpsons.
“Bonjour you cheese eating surrender monkeys!”

5. Philip J. Fry
Planet Express Delivery’s redhead delivery boy.
“I’m experienced with foraging. I used to find edible mushrooms on my bath mat!”

6. Raggedy Andy

Raggedy Ann’s brother. This is a great couples costume.
“It’s the cruelest mean I’ve ever heard of”

7. Howdy Doody
Good old fashion fun. Everyone will know who you are.
“It’s Howdy Doody Time”

8. Woody Woodpecker

The ultimate red tufted troublemaker.
“Hu-hu-hu-ha-ha!”

9. Beaker
The nervous assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from the Muppet Show.
“Mee Mee Moo Moo Mee Mee Mind”

10. Archie Andrews

So hard to choose. Betty or Veronica.
[about Reggie] “He’s got a case of terminal jerkiositude.”

Let us know if you have any other unusual redhead costumes, or better still send us your Halloween photos!

Out there are silver dressed darlings
And ramen mein delights
When ginger hair gets all fired up
She beats them in the night
That redhead walking, uh

Don’t get close
She’ll warn you with her growl
She’s a bud cuttin’, star studded, leather chested girl
Out there a redhead walkin’
Redhead walkin’
The redhead walkin’
Better listen keep your distance from the crimson crime warpath

O kiss that girl
Kiss that girl
Kiss that girt

Yeah, she’ll cut your heart like diamonds
End of story
You bet you’re gonna lose it to that hellbound crimson glory

There — a redhead walkin’
A redhead walkin’
A redhead walkin’
Heed what this wise man says
Keep away from redheads…

AIR – Pocket Symphony – Redhead Girl

When the redhead girl goes by
The course of time stands still
When the redhead girl goes by
Goes by
Goes by

When the redhead girl goes by
It’s a dream with a blue knife
When the redhead girl goes by
Goes by (X4)

The Fever – In the City of Sleep - Redhead

I can’t remember to forget oh the day we met
Strung out like a 14 karat marionette
The parking lot was dark
Car made of steam
Bird in my ribcage screaming like a demon
There’s a seven headed highway’s
That can get me out
But i was pregnant with a belly full of lead
For that red head

Her momma’s in the kitchen
Drunk by 5 o clock
Her daddy’s gone missing with his mistress up the block
Big sister is running from the convent to the coven
Poor baby brother is still hiding in the oven
Anchor to the ankle, ankle to the knee
She swears as she tucks them into bed
That red head

I asked my baby for a glass of water
She brought me gasoline
I put a match to everything I had
She’s the roulette’s own red daughter
Every rube comes clean
Cover me knee deep in wonderland
Under stand
Baby I’m yr man

Dancing in the black rain
Ashes to the ashtray
Hangman plays the mandolin
Panhandles the path train
Jumpin through the stained glass window of the chapel
I hit the ground flapping my lapels full of shrapnel
The devil’s hot breath on the back of my neck
Turned around and found her there instead
That red head

I asked my baby for a glass of water
She brought me gasoline
I put a match to everything I had
She’s the roulette’s own red daughter
Every rube comes clean
Cover me knee deep in wonderland
Under stand
Baby I’m yr man

Bruce Springsteen – Bruce Springsteen In Concert – MTV Plugged – Red Headed Woman

Well, brunettes are fine, man
Blondes are fun
But, when it comes to getting the dirty job done,
I’ll take a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman.
It takes a red-headed woman to get a dirty job done.

Well, listen up, stud,
Your life’s been wasted
’til you’ve got’ down on your knees and tasted
A red-headed woman, a red-headed woman.
It takes a red-headed woman to get a dirty job done.

Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you’ve got, baby, waiting under there.
Big green eyes that look like, son,
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done.

Well, I don’t know how many girls you dated, man
You ain’t lived ’til you’ve had your tires rotated
By a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman.
It takes a red-headed woman to get a dirty job done.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live Rust – Cinammon Girl (Live)

I wanna live
with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy
the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Pa sent me money now
I’m gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance
Yeah…yeah…yeah.

Bath Time

Originally uploaded by SarahSparx

Freckles by Natasha Bedingfield

I used to care so much about what
about what others think about
Almost didn’t have a thought of my own
The slightest remark would make me embark
On the journey of self doubt
But that was a while ago
This girl has got stronger
If I knew then what I know now
I would have told myself don’t worry any longer it’s OK

[Chorus:]
’cause a face without freckles is like a sky without stars
Why waste a second not loving who you are
Those little imperfections make you beautiful, lovable, valuable,
They show your personality inside your heart
Reflecting who you are

Who you are
Who you are
Who you are

I wondered if I could trade my body with somebody else in magazines
Would the whole world fall at my feet?
I felt unworthy and would blame my failures on the ugliness I could see
When the mirror looked at me
Sometimes I feel like the little girl who doesn’t belong in her own world
But I’m getting better
And I’m reminding myself

[Chorus]

Reflecting who you are
Reflecting who you are
Hmmm
Whoooooo whoa hmmmm oooooo

[Chorus]

Lovely Laughter

Originally uploaded by mongoliandeathworm

We crimson-topped folk have suffered over 800 years of discrimination all because of our golden locks. For hundreds of years literary references warn against the unlucky and/or evil nature of people with red hair. The Proverbs of Alfred warned as early as the 1200’s that ‘the red man is a wicked man, for he will give thee evil counsel’. Throughout the decades red-haired men and women were thought to be poisonous, treacherous, bad luck, unhappy, unlucky to meet in the morning, before a journey on foot or upon a ship, and even for the fishermen. It was even thought that if a redheaded child or person visited on New Year’s Day that someone would die within that house by year’s end.

Tsk. So much fear of the unknown.

The way I see it redheads are indeed very lucky. We thrive despite the unlikely recessive genes needed to bring forth our fiery locks. We need less anesthesia during surgery and dental procedures. We are resilient evolutionarily, physically–despite our sensitivities, emotionally for most of us have endured some sort of taunting on account of hair color, alabaster skin or quirky freckles.

Seems to me despite what the masses once thought or may still believe–we are the lucky ones, fortunate to be of strong unique heritages and beautifully rare form. We are unique and ordinary, strong and sensitive all at the same time. We are the lucky ones born of parents of all hair colors, surviving despite the evolutionary unlikelihood, thriving despite the centuries of popular contempt against us.

From: RED HAIR unlucky by IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM
Source: A Dictionary of Superstitions, 1/1/1996.
Via: HighBeam™ Research
© A Dictionary of Superstitions 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.

Redhead

Originally uploaded by heartfirewolf

brilliant shafts of sunlight,
once shadowed by blackened thunderheads,
now burst through openings in emptied brokenness
streaking sky with gleaming, vertical hue

each beam,
each golden shard of flaming magnificence,
falls tenderly upon basking, fairest flesh below
with lingering blush,

and conjures flecks of melanin,
aroused,
like assemblies of browning worshipers,
enshrined in ivory temple

so that longing eyes,
nearly blinded
by the strength of sun’s glorious brilliance,
can reverence heated memory
at each reflection
upon soft, speckled skin
and can remember. . .

having known passion

Written by,
Ten thousand cicadas

THAT red-haired girl, with azure eye___
Just now I saw her tripping by!
What makes me start and tremble so?
‘Tis not that red-’haired girl, I know!
And yet, somehow, I heave a sigh.

For she is fair and tall, while I,
Alas, am dark, and thin, and dry;
What stuff is this I’ve writ! but oh,
That red-haired girl!

What odds to me, you say? Oh, my,
How hard it is to tell a lie
When one beholds that throat of snow___
And eyes grow dim, and pulses go!
God bless my soul’s delight! Who? Why,
That red-haired girl.

__Albert Bigelow Paine.

from The Isle of Arran

Originally uploaded by alexandrasilber

Autumn Fires

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The gray smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Originally uploaded by krispy13

Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.

If your mind isn’t clouded
by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

–Wu Men

The Greatest Gift…

Originally uploaded by julsatmidnight

Light up the Fire

I gaze into the heart, lowly it may be,
Thought the words be higher still.
For the heart is all the substance,
The speech an accident.
How many phrases will you speak,
Too many for me.
How much burning, burning will you feel,
Be friendly with the fire, enough for me.
Light up the fire of love inside,
And blaze the thoughts away.

By: Rumi

Standing in the sun

Originally uploaded by Adelaide_e

Echoing Light

When I was beginning to read I imagined that bridges had something to do with birds and with what seemed to be cages but I knew that they were not cages it must have been autumn with the dusty light flashing from the streetcar wires and those orange places on fire in the pictures and now indeed it is autumn the clear days not far from the sea with a small wind nosing over dry grass that yesterday was green the empty corn standing trembling and a down of ghost flowers veiling the ignored fields and everywhere the colors I cannot take my eyes from all of them red even the wide streams red it is the season of migrants flying at night feeling the turning earth beneath them and I woke in the city hearing the call notes of the plover then again and again before I slept and here far downriver flocking together echoing close to the shore the longest bridges have opened their slender wings

By: W.S.Merwin