Costume Contest

Some friends and I decided to attend Buckhead Saloon's 80's party on Friday night. The person with the best costume would win $300 so we got all decked out and hit the town.

When we got to the bar there weren't very many people dressed up except for the bartenders and this one dude in leggings. So we thought for sure we had this one in the bag. As the night wore on more people showed up in costume, some of them really great but in our opinions none as awesome as ours. So around 12:30 they lined everyone up that wanted to participate and made us go out on stage and dance one at a time, there were a few people that managed to go up in a group (sadly we did not). Why in the world were we up on stage dancing? Beats the heck outta me! Wasn't this supposed to be a costume contest?

I got up and danced a bit and then walked off stage. The two Amy's also competed but none of us won or even placed top 5. The first couple to get called back looked like nothing from the 80's. The dude was wearing a shirt and tie and some white khaki pants and the chick had on some bright pedal pushers (more 50's than 80's chick)...so why the heck did anyone cheer for them? The last three were a bit more likely winners, a chick in a roller costume with leggings and a short skirt (wasn't roller girl from the 70's?), a guy that looked like Slater from Saved By The Bell (wait, wasn't that show from the early 90's??), and a dude dressed like Steff from Pretty in Pink... If he hadn't started taking his clothes off, I'd have voted for that dude...as it was we all cheered for the Slater look-a-like. Regardless it's rather unfortunate that the people that actually LOOKED 80's didn't even get cheered for! I'm not just talking about us, there were several groups of ladies decked out in their awesome 80's finest and they got dead silence out there.

Who the heck determines how these contests are supposed to go? Because they're a moron! They should have lined everyone up on stage and had us step up and twirl once or twice so everyone could see our COSTUME and then judge from the cheers that way. OR heck it would have made way more sense to actually have a judge or panel of judges. $300 is kind of a big deal to leave up to a bunch of drunk people that obviously wouldn't know 80's fashion if it slapped them in the face! GAH.