What’s the best Hallowe’en costume you’ve ever seen (on an adult)? So what if October is months away? I’m bored.
The top ones I’ve seen include a Christmas Tree (the guy even wrapped himself in lights, with ample cord leftover so he could plug himself in whenever he got near an outlet). Also memorable were the rugby players who went as “Sheep Shaggers” who had fake sheep strapped to their fronts. You had to see it to believe it.
I also liked the Tegrin Man (although this came to be overdone): Barechested, towel around waist, blue shaving cream covering one half of skull, green on the other.
My husband and I dressed as Salada Teabags two years ago. That is probably the most original we have dressed. Other years I made Robin Hood & Maid Marion costumes and last year we put Ballroom Dancer costumes together with stuff in our closets and the help of the local Goodwill store.
I gotta hand it to my sister, Brachy, who is great in thinking up Hallowe’en costumes.
My favorite is Pumpkin Eater: she wore a suit with a carved pumpkin on her head.
Last year was Revenge killer: cleverly using ketchup and lipstick, she had a bashed-in head, horribly slit throat with “blood” running down her neck, carried a chinese cleaver and wore a bathing suit and sarong. Kids loved her.
When I was in college, I saw three guys dressed as foosball players. They had their arms linked with big corrugated cardboard tubes so that it looked like one long bar ran through all of them. They also had their hair slicked and colored so it had that classic plastic look. Awesome costumes, but I’m not sure how they maneuvered around in the bars that night.
My friend K. (currently an addicted SDMB lurker) has a picture of a friend in a Halloween costume on her desk. He went as “Porn Flakes” - decorated the box to look like a Corn flakes box, only um, Pornier.
When you gonna join us, K? You know you want to!
The High Heel races in D.C. always turn up some great costumes. The best one I ever saw was two guys wrapped tightly in green sheets with a tent of green bubble-wrap over their heads. They were broccoli. The guys who went as the U.S. Women’s Gymnastic team (complete with Kerry Strug limping and squeaking behind) were also pretty cool.
A good friend of mine once went as the “cafe & restaurant flower seller.” You know, the guy who waltzes into a restaurant and trys to get all the guys to buy flowers for their dates. He wore a puffy white shirt, black pants, got a basket and some roses, slicked back his hair…we were having a Halloween party in this club in Georgetown and everyone thought he was the real deal at first. Great way to meet women, as he gave all his flowers away.
One friend of mine came as the white I Spy a few years ago. He had a white suite, black shirt, white tie and hat, and a posterboard cone decorated as the face.
Another friend should have gotten an award for the coolest, yet easiest costume that year. He wore his tux and one “ear-bud” headphone. Naturally he was a secret service agent.
I saw one brave guy at Armagedon(sp?), an annual late night Halloween art show featuring an end of the world theme last year. He came as the biblical Adam. Thankfully it was “after the apple.” (fig leaf) The guy had um, er… balls. :o
I’m working with one of my buddies on the complete Spy vs. Spy rig–costumes for each, bombs, punch gloves, the works. Maybe not this Halloween, but soon…
to my brother and his wife - He dressed as Ben Franklin, you know old time clothes, glasses and a kite, she dressed as a Christmas wreath (green outfit with red leaves attached) and together they were… (drum roll) Areatha Franklin.
Other favorites (I’m from Michigan, so these are more fun here) One dresses in hospital scrubs, the other in a suit with a briefcase and you’re Kevorkian and his attorney Fieger. OR, wrap astro turf around you, paint on a football field markings, and you’re: Jimmy Hoffa…
-I saw a guy dressed up as a VLT (Video Lottery Terminal), sort of like a slot machine. He even had a little holder in the side for his beer and a straw that went in to the machine so he could drink.
Two guys came as the ambigiously gay duo, very funny.
-I also had a group of friends come as a large group of Amish women. Long skirts, matching vests, scarves on their heads and velcro runners.
Actually my favorite costume and one that got the most response was also the simplest (and it was not unwieldy, hot, or uncomfortable in any way).
Simply go buy a white t-shirt and get the word ‘COSTUME’ put on the front at one of those t-shirt shops. Then on the back just take a black pemranent marker and draw a good-sized UPC code. It sounds corny, but if you wear white paints, white sneakers, and a white turtleneck underneath it is effective.
I’ve seen people dressed as Borg with tubes and wires running all over their bodies, and one even had one of those eye-pieces with a laser beam.
But the best was, one year a friend of mine wore a long, green robe, and he wouldn’t tell anyone what he was supposed to be . . . he said it would be revealed at midnight. At the designated time, two other guys did the drum roll and introduction, then he climbed up on one of the tables, pulled up his robes, and mooned us. His ass cheeks were painted orange with vertical green stripes. It was kind of dark in there, so the effect was exactly what he had intended . . . The Great Pumpkin.
In the front, he had rigged a kind of a g-string out of a green bandanna: The Stem. To provide a measure of camouflage in case of slippage, his package was painted green to match.
Two friends of mine dressed up as a pair of sperm and were wearing large rolled up condoms on their heads. They proudly announced that they were the fallopian swim team.
I’ve see a few over the years, mostly back in Hawaii, where Kalakaua Avenue (the main strip in Waikiki) turned into one giant costume party.
I saw a guy whose head was on a platter. He wore a suit for a really tall man. Padded the top shoulder area, and stuck his head through the front chest area and cut a paper plate to fit around his neck. He then attached the suit’s sleeves (with stuffed gloves sticking out) onto the plate. He painted his face like he was ghoulish, and where the neck should have been on the suit, he just painted red. He couldn’t move his arms, but it was a GREAT costume.
I also once a group of folks all dressed as Egyptian folks, and they were carrying an Egyptian pharoah on a sort of rickshaw thing. It was quite impressive!
Another group dressed up as cops and a robber, but driving painted cardboard cars. The robber would run through the sidewalk, and the “cop cars” siren, whistle and all, would chase him. Quite cute.
…and then back in high school, two of my teachers dressed up as a priest and a pregnant nun. I’m sure that’s been done.
Of course, that’s my idea of the perfect Halloween costume for me. Since October 31 is my birthday, I’d wear a birthday suit!!!
One Halloween I was at the local hangout,and there was a guy dressed as Pinhead from Hellraiser. It was so realistic that people were too scared to talk to him. It was perfect-down to the pins.
One year I went to a party as a Dominatrix and all the guests were begging me to punish them. A few of them started to take it way too seriously after a while though. Creepy
A simple but cute costume that one of my friends wore:
She was dressed in a pink jogging suit - pink from head to toe. On top of her head was a tennis shoe, and she had the laces to the shoe tied under her neck.
We don’t really do Halloween down my way (which is a shame I feel) but I’ll offer the two best costumes I have seen on my friends at parties:
The Flasher
Swimming briefs, overcoat, tennis shoes… and a french loaf attached to said briefs (and hanging down in front), and tied by strings to the sides of the coat so that when he opened the coat… err… the loaf sorta swung up… I’m sure you get the mental image.
JC
Loin cloth, and nothing else, apparently nailed (complete with fake blood and crown of thorns) to a cross. The nails were those trick type that go around, rather than through, and the cross was cut out of a foam rubber mattress and painted to resemble wood. Looked amazingly real… until he’d pick up a beer and the whole thing would bend.
I’ve worn a simple but effect ninja costume a few times. It consists of my black gi, black socks over my sneakers (for some reason, that really looks authentic), a black t-shirt pulled over my head, with the neck hole across my eyes and the sleeves tied in the back of my head to create the “eyeslit” effect. Finally, I’d carry my bokken, or some other martial arts weapon (sorry, don’t own no throwing stars).
Real simple, but people always love it.
Sua
A friend in college once dressed as her student ID. She got a sheet of cardboard about 3’ x 5’ and cut a whole in it, wore it so her head was where her photo would be. She even used a strip of a garbage bag to simulate the magnetic stripe down the back of the card.
That is probably the most original we have dressed. Other years I made Robin Hood & Maid Marion costumes and last year we put Ballroom Dancer costumes together with stuff in our closets and the help of the local Goodwill store.
