Expert Eye: Framing the Situation     

Dress It Up

For an artistically inspired costume, both children and adults can create wearable frame costumes.

The easier method involves painting a few lines or triangles on a face and wearing the frame as a necklace or suspended from a hat. This “artist look” is best accessorized with a beret and a horizontally striped T-shirt. Ta-da. You’re now Picasso.

The more detailed method involves printing or creating a background to match a historic portrait and cutting a face-opening for the wearer. This works best if someone already looks like Mona Lisa or some other famous portrait. Our community has lots of bearded gingers who can pass as Van Gogh — paint streaks at no extra cost. (I hope that no one looks like Munch’s The Scream. But there is such a thing as hoping too much.)

Of course, there is but one mishloach manos that can go with this costume