Recently attending a Halloween party in the United Kingdom, 19-year-olds Amber Langford and Annie Collinge were hoping their costumes would be creative enough to earn the pair first prize in the costume competition. As luck would have it, the two took home the top honor, just not in the fashion most people would want. Dressing up as each of New York City's Twin Towers, Langford and Collinge chose to depict what each of the buildings looked like on September 11, 2001, the day the worst terrorist attack on United States soil took place.
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Those judging the costumes and others in attendance may have found their misguided take on September 11th as humorous and award worthy but many people around the globe did not take kindly to the costumes depiction of the World Trade Center's 'North' and 'South' towers. "This is unbelievable, 9/11 happened in their lifetime," Patricia Bingley, who lost her son in the attacks, said recently to the New York Daily News. "It's hard to understand where they've come from to do this without a thought for those who died or the families left behind."
Bringing home a prize of shopping vouchers worth nearly $240, the 19-year-old's have since apologized for their poor choice of holiday clothing, saying that they never meant to depict September 11th as a joke. "We never meant to be offensive, but we apologize if any offence was caused," Langford and Collinge said recently. "The idea was to depict a serious, modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke."
Amber Langford's father Martin was among those not amused by his daughter's costume. A retired pilot, Martin Langford told the Sun Newspaper that his daughter should know not to do things like that and that he plans to have a few words with the college student.
"She knows I'm a pilot and that's not cool at all," he said recently. "We will be having a little chat, I think."
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