Help with Halloween costume!

[Tajiri]

I'm trying to come up with a Halloween costume but am having a hard time. What are some of the better costumes you all have seen (preferably ones that don't cost a lot of money to make)? I'm not a fan of the typical costumes though and like to usually be something witty if not controversial. Thanks for your help...

[roadrunner70]

This year, my costume is going to consist of me wearing nothing but a pair of jeans. No shirt, shoes, nothing but the jeans.

Host: What are you s''posed to be?

Mr. Eater: Premature Ejaculation.

Host: Huh?

Mr. Eater: Yeah. I just came in my pants. :D

[Gravity]

Well, I'm going as a puppy dog. Inexpensive and fun.

Dress all in black, if you have long hair put it up in pigtails for cocker-spaniel-like ears. Wear a pair of black stretch gloves (this outfit will also work in brown, white, etc. I just happen to have black.) Paint a big spot around one eye. If you don't have face-painting crayons or something, a cheap $0.99 eyeliner works. If you have eyeshadow that you don't use much in a matching color, you can dust it over the paint/eyeliner spot for a velvety look. Paint on a black nose. Bark some. Folks'll get the idea.

[buddy1]

...andyour gender. for women, I recommend the ever=popular belly dancer outfit. It just requires a bikini and some gauze fabric. It is sure to be a winner. Don't try this in Minneapolis, however!

[Zebra]

Originally posted by Weedeater


Mr. Eater: Yeah. I just came in my pants. :D


Ok that's funny. Welcome to the boards.

[Nanno]

Well lets see, I kind of like foil , you know like the one on the Wallgreens commercial, but then again am partial to vampires.

ooh well

[Osip]

One year in college I was invited to a party by my then girlfriend. Being broke,I created a Dopey (the dwarf) head out of old newspaper and glue. Took an old blue blanket and sewed it up to look like a big robe.

Was a time intensive (making the head) but cheap costume.
Was the hit of the NA (Narcotic Annonimous Halloween party

[Searching For Truth]

Go naked. What else do you need?

[nashiitashii]

Be a member of the undead. Wear your own clothes, get some extra pale makeup that is as close to white as possible, then get some brown eyeliner. Apply pale makeup all over face, including lips, then blend the brown eyeliner around your eyes like dark circles. People should get the hint, but if you think it's not obvious enough, you could add some tears to the fabric and fake blood.

[cantatrice]

A couple years ago, I put some green cotton on my face, spray painted my hair green, wrapped myself in tin foil, put a sign with an expiration date of 1997 on it, and went as a leftover. I won a couple contests - cheap and easy.

[Critical1]

go to the dollar store and buy one of everything that you can wear, should end up costing about 6 - 10$ and when asked just say "I'm a dollar store speacial"
or not. how much is not much? give us an idea fer crying out loud.

[Apollyon]

Well... if you don't mind controversial...

Two best cheap costumes I remember from years of costume parties:

1) Cut 2 x 5" wide strips from an old foam mattress. Spray brown, afix at right angles to make a cross. Two bent nails (the kind that look like they're going through your hands), a loincloth and a crown of thorns. Fake blood for a wound in your side too, if you like.

2) Speedo style swimming briefs, and an overcoat, plus a french loaf (attached at one end to the briefs) and a couple of pieces of string (attached to the loaf and the coat), rigged so that when the coat is errr... flashed open, the french loaf swings from a vertical position pointing down, to a errr... mostly vertical one pointing upwards.

'Course, either of these might end up with arrest depending on local customs and laws. :D

[bagkitty]

Wrap yourself in saran wrap and claim to be either a) cold cuts, or b) a prick, a safe prick, but a prick

[Kritter]

When I was a kid my mother and I came up with a great costume that won me a few awards, mainly MOST ORIGINAL or something similar.


We took a big garbage bag and cut leg holes in the bottom. Then we stuffed it with newspaper and tied it off (carefully) with string around my neck. Then we made a few holes in the sides of the garbage bag, and pulled some newspaper through. and finally she greased my hair back and pinned some "trashy" stuff in my hair, like a washed out egg shell, some aluminum foil, a broken clothes pin and stuff.

Hope it helps.

[jesuslynch]

You could make a tadpole costume and go as a sperm.

You could don a black cape along with it and go as the...



Sperm Count.

[Rue DeDay]

I have a cow costume The Little Woman sewed for me. It's sort of a jumpsuit in a cow print material. With a cow head hood.

I'll be wearing it this year as I cook hot dogs to give out. I love doing this.


-Rue.

[Ethilrist]

Take all the junk emails you normally jsut delete, print them out, and tape them all over you. Tell people you're Spam.

Dang, I think I'm going to have to do that this year...

[Zyada]

It would help to know if you are a guy or a girl.

A really cheap idea for a is a modern Cinderella, after midnight. Go just as ratty as you are willing to go, and only wear one sneaker. Might help if you carry around something that is your post-midnight carriage, like a Hot Wheels car.

[Enore_Tsotset]

This year I am planning to go as Chicken Cordon Bleu.

Wearing jeans and a blue top, carrying a rubber chicken and an extension cord.
My wife is going as the wine and cheese to compliment it.
Cheese wedge hat and she'll whine all night.
Cheap yet I hope to get a few laughs(maybe more groans, though)

[Ethilrist]

I saw someone once dressed as a Fairy Godmother after a three-day bender. Cigarette, empty bottle of scotch, fairy wings crumples, tiara askew, makeup all messed up... god, it was hilarious.

[Balance]

How about Hawkwood's Fairy Godfather (http://www.hawkwood.org/photos/people/pages/fairegodfa_jpg.htm), Ethilrist? He complements the outfit with the fakest mafiosa accent I've ever heard and a cigar stuffed in to an oversized cigarette holder.

I may dress as Garrett from Looking Glass Studios' "Thief" games--black, semi-Ren shirt and pants, boots (maybe with taps on them :D ), a big black cloak. It's not a cheap costume, though--I just have all the bits already.

[Politzania]

Got this from a cow-orker a few years ago - may try it this year.

Get a light blue sweatshirt - glue cotton batting/cotton balls/something white & fluffy on it. Carry a squirt gun.

When asked what you are - "Partly cloudy (squirt squirt) with a chance of rain"

[Ethilrist]

Wear your clothes backwards. Tell people you always wanted to try cross-dressing, but so far you don't see the attraction...

[Arwen]

Hey, I was in the same boat, and now you guys have come up with some great ideas! I was already thinking about the leftover one...cheap, easy, and you can spill all you want...it just runs right off. :D

Also, good for colder places like here, you could ger a nice brown blanket (two might be needed) and make a monk's robe out of it. Get some red lightbulbs for eyes, and you can be one of those little guys from Star Wars! (Hmmm.....Might have to do that one, too....)

[Poysyn]

Go to a store and buy the following - fabric interfacing, white cord (or string) and a piece of construction paper. You now have the makings for a teabag costune - which is what I think I'll be this year.

[Balance]

Originally posted by Poysyn
You now have the makings for a teabag costune - which is what I think I'll be this year.
Why not go the extra mile? Rumple the fabric and stain it with tea--then you can go as an old bag. (Of course, having seen Poysyn's pic on the People Pages, I'm not sure she could carry off the role. ;) )

[Little Nemo]

FAIRY GODFATHER - From the waist up, dress in an Italian suit. From the waist down, wear a glittery tutu. Accessorize this with a tiara, wand, gauzy wings, moustache, and a mouthful of cotton. If anyone gives you any grief hit them with your wand and say "badda bing, badda boom, you're a frog!"

MOVIE THEATER FLOOR - Dress all in black. Smear gel in your hair and in random spots on the rest of your body to create a sticky look. Attach empty plastic cups, popcorn, candy wrappers, chewed gum, and ticket stubs all over yourself.

[jayjay]

My take on "Fairy Godfather" would be a business suit, Mafia style...in lavender. Little wings, an assault wand, and a majorly femmy/fruity voice.

Of course, you may have to be gay to get away with this without being PC-ed to death...

jayjay

[Stoid]

Go to a used clothing store... getr a funky fedora, a trenchcoat, and some nice man-in-a-suit dress shoes, and a pair of nice-ish pants. Also get a cheap briefcase.

Spray paint everything bright orange.

Voila! Agent Orange

Or you could do what I heard about this year... go in normal clothes, but pin the front of your shirt up as though you were pulling it up to show your tits/chest. Take a big piece of cardboard, paint it black, and write in white letters: Too Hot For TV!!! and attach it across your chest.


stoid

[RickQ]

My thoughts.

<Public health warning>This will only work if the guy is ig and strong, and the girl is light and named correctly</Public health warning>

So, the guy gives the girl a piggy back. When asked what he has is dressed as, he replies with "A turtle". If asked where is your costume, point to the girl and reply "This is Michelle".

May get a laugh, but prolly more groans.

:D

I think it works better in a Yorkshire accent, but see what you think.

Rick

[Persephone]

So, the guy gives the girl a piggy back. When asked what he has is dressed as, he replies with "A turtle". If asked where is your costume, point to the girl and reply "This is Michelle".

I had to read this three times, then say it out loud before I got it.

groooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaan...:rolleyes:

[lurkernomore]

Originally posted by Apollyon
Well... if you don't mind controversial...

Two best cheap costumes I remember from years of costume parties:

1) Cut 2 x 5" wide strips from an old foam mattress. Spray brown, afix at right angles to make a cross. Two bent nails (the kind that look like they're going through your hands), a loincloth and a crown of thorns. Fake blood for a wound in your side too, if you like.

2) Speedo style swimming briefs, and an overcoat, plus a french loaf (attached at one end to the briefs) and a couple of pieces of string (attached to the loaf and the coat), rigged so that when the coat is errr... flashed open, the french loaf swings from a vertical position pointing down, to a errr... mostly vertical one pointing upwards.

'Course, either of these might end up with arrest depending on local customs and laws. :D

Know someone who did a variant.... he also cut off the legs off an old pair of pants and held them up with rubber bands just above the knees, so he apparently was wearing pants before he flashed.... he used a condom stuffed with cotton and would shake his hips. He eventually took off the prosthetic and blew it up like a balloon.

One of the more "sheltered" partygoers later picked it up and was saying "this balloon is really smooth. So much nicer than the others. Why is that?" When everyone stared, she realized what it was, and dropped it. I forget most of the people who were there. I will never forget Kathy's face when she realized what it was :D

[RickQ]

I warned ya people would groan :D

And it is prolly better in a British (perferably Yorkshire) accent cause we say "My car" (pronounced me car), "me shell, me house" etc

Rick

[crazy_nut]

Originally posted by Politzania
Got this from a cow-orker a few years ago - may try it this year.

Get a light blue sweatshirt - glue cotton batting/cotton balls/something white & fluffy on it. Carry a squirt gun.

When asked what you are - "Partly cloudy (squirt squirt) with a chance of rain"

why not partly cloudy with a chance of meatballs. it would win plenty of creativity prizes. use paper meatballs.

on another note, you could use those twist ties and decorate yourself with it. that's what my sister is doing, or at least i think.......

[ThisYearsGirl]

Man, so throughout this thread, people keep saying "This year", and I read it out of the corner of my eye and think, "Whoa! Why are people talking about me? My Halloween costumes always suck!" then I read it in its context, and feel stupid.
So every year, I always think I'm not going to dress up, but then at the last minute, I throw together some lame costume. This one year, I wore a white one-shouldered shirt (way before they became cool), a blue skirt, and a blonde wig. I was supposed to be Debbie Harry, but everyone assumed I was Marilyn Monroe. This creep in a bathrobe kept telling me that he was Hugh Hefner and we should get together. He called me for, like, a week afterwards.
So the moral is: Don't wear a bathrobe. You'll look creepy.

[Barbarian]

I'm going as Gofotron from Sluggy Freelance (www.sluggy.com)'s Punyverse adventure.

One fan has made a site with loads of costume ideas, and handy instructions...

[Searching For Truth]

Originally posted by Politzania
[B]Got this from a cow-orker a few years ago - may try it this year.
B]

I have nothing to contribute, just had the overwhelming urge to point out the 'smack-your-forehead-and-groan' factor of the above comment.


And now, thanks to this thread, my boyfriend is coming to a Halloween party as a SPERM!


Damn you, Dopers!! Damn you all!

[The Big Cheese]

Luv the idea Politzania.

Last year I was a road with roadkill. Wore black pants, black sweatshirt. Took duct tape and put it down my middle like a white road line. Took gutted small stuffed animals and pinned them to my shirt and pants. It was cheap.

[Apollyon]

Originally posted by Apollyon
Well... if you don't mind controversial...


I decided that these two costumes really needed to be seen to be believed, and I managed to dig up some old photos, so the Flasher and Christ costumes (http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~apollyon/halloween/costumes.html) are now available for viewing.

(Link is safe -- my own website -- however the costumes may be considered morally suspect and/or religiously dubious. I however, was merely the photographer). :)