# Halloween Costume Ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519 "2000-10-27T00:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/1 "2000-10-27T00:25:33Z")
The halloween parties are all going to be this weekend. So I’m sure their are a lot of other dopers out there who need a last minute idea other than me. So does anyone have any good ideas? Preferably simple ones that can be thrown together at the last minute. Thanks Diver ---
**Author:** ![WillyK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/47e85d/32.png) [@WillyK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillyK)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/2 "2000-10-27T00:33:30Z")
Here one: Put on a beanie cap, backpack, and a video camera and your the chick from The Blair Witch Project. Easy and quick. For added effect, just let your nose drip all night and cry alot. ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/3 "2000-10-27T02:14:59Z")
Three years ago, my hubby and I went ot a party as Death and Taxes. He went in the usual garb, I wore a conservative suit and stuck photocopied tax forms to me with red tape. I won a prize for that one! This year,we’re going as Pokemon characters - I as Ash Catchem and he as a six-foot-four, 300 pound Pikachu. Patty ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/4 "2000-10-27T02:19:05Z")
Go as a Q-Tip. Wear a white turtle neck, and white pants. COVER your feet with white cotton batting from any crafts store. Get a piece of white construction paper, wrap it around your head to form an overly large chef hat, and staple it shut. COVER this with batting and/or cotton swabs. A friend of mine did this, and its hilarious. You could also do the same thing and tie a string to the top of it. Instant tampon. Another suggestion - go as Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance. Get a white button down shirt that is several sizes too big. Wear black spandex. Put a couple of socks in the crotch. Get a leather strap to wear around your head. Leap around a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/5 "2000-10-27T04:56:40Z")
Doesn’t this belong in IMHO? Oh well, I say the easiest thing to do is just use stuff you already have. If you have cute little girl PJs then dress up as a baby and just carry around a blankie and a bottle and put your hair up in pigtails. Of course that just works for girls. If you have a cowboy hat you can dress up as a cowboy just wear jeans and a plaid shirt… or leather. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/6 "2000-10-27T05:45:11Z")
Why don’t you just cover yourself in a giant latex pouch and go as you school mascot? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/7 "2000-10-27T05:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Doesn’t this belong in IMHO? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/8 "2000-10-27T06:53:06Z")
You need street clothes, a rope, and a stuffed toy cat. Tie the rope into a noose, and place the toy cat in the noose. Carry it around all night. When they ask, you’re “Curiosity.” That, or a toga, a hockey mask, and a big bloody knife. Jason the Argonaut. ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/9 "2000-10-27T18:16:30Z")
Here’s are two easy ones you don’t have to explain and use stuff most people have around the house. For Guys: Put on any suit, your trench coat, and gloves. Wrap an Ace bandage around your head (leaving an opening for each eye), put on sunglasses and a fedora. Instant Invisible Man! One of the best I’ve seen for women, and can be put together with stuff easily obtained at most thrift stores. You need any pastel '60s-looking suit, a little pillbox hat, some fake blood, and some those lightweight decorative fake birds (any craft shop should have them). A blonde wig is optional, but helps. Use the fake blood to draw scratches on your hand and face, attach the bird to various places on your clothes, hat, and hair. You are now Tippi Hedren from “The Birds”. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/10 "2000-10-27T18:23:00Z")
Wear a purple (or black) turtleneck. Blow up a lot of purple balloons to medium size and tape them all over yourself. You are now a bunch of grapes. (Green felt hat with grape vine optional.) Get a see-through plastic bag large enough to step into. (Available at furniture stores.) Cut holes for your legs and arms and climb into it. Fill with multi-colored medium size balloons and tie shut around your neck with a ribbon. You are now a bag of jelly beans. Do not drink in the jelly bean costume, as going to the bathroom is a near-impossible pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/11 "2000-10-27T18:28:28Z")
Wear normal clothing, and pin dryer sheets and socks to all available clothing surfaces. You are now static cling! ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/12 "2000-10-27T18:36:41Z")
One of my favorite suggestions from MST3K: Wear black, tape candy wrappers and empty popcorn buckets to your clothes, and spray on some silly string for good measure. You are now the floor of a movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/13 "2000-10-27T19:12:47Z")
…in your neck of the weeds! Since your name is USCDIVER, I assume you are in S. california-you can really cause a stir by trying something exotic (gstring and pasties come to mind). of course, such garb may not be practical… ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/14 "2000-10-27T19:34:20Z")
I shall be Professor Snape from Harry Potter. Black robes and potion bottles. You could go as Nearly Headless Nick. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/15 "2000-10-27T22:06:47Z")
Buy one of those packages of hair-braid material (preferably one that at least kind of matches your hair color - you can get them at any beauty supply store), and braid the entire package into one long fat braid. Pin it to your real hair, and wear a nice dress. You are now Rapunzel. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/16 "2000-10-27T22:10:10Z")
There are some make-up tips here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43203](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43203) ---
**Author:** ![Hecubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ec9cab/32.png) [@Hecubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hecubis)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/17 "2000-10-27T22:22:59Z")
I’m going as a Tattooed lady this year. I acquired a lot of really bad temporary tattoos so I thought I would put them to use. I’m going to use a bald cap and cover my head plus cover almost every square inch of my body (parts that are visible that is). ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/18 "2000-10-27T23:26:25Z")
I’m going as a cat. Plain black t shirt and shorts. fishnets and black heels. Cat collar, cat tail and black cat earings. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/19 "2000-10-27T23:42:13Z")
All pink or purple sweat suit. Tie a shoe to your head. Gum under someone’s shoe. For the baby costume-do that, and then make your face up like a zombie-a dead baby zombie. Go to a thrift shop and find a fluffy, sequined, mermaid style prom dress from the 80s. Wear it with fishnets and a ribbon around your neck and curl your hair and pin it up. A saloon girl. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519/20 "2000-10-28T01:03:53Z")
Once, when a young lady at work mused aloud about what she should dress up as for Halloween, I asked her, “Why don’t you go as a bitch? Then you won’t have to buy a costume.” Fortunately, she knew I was kidding. She wasn’t really a bitch, but she was constantly referring to herself as one. Nice girl, actually. This probably doesn’t help you, but I wanted to share my story. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costume-ideas/38519.md?page=2)