it’s that time of year. i go into the funky thrift stores, i search my mind for some creative inspiration . . . and i CAN NEVER THINK OF A COOL HALLOWEEN COSTUME!
what’s the coolest costume you’ve worn or seen?
-my ex-BF went as Axl Rose in a top hat
-a fellow student wore a suit with leaves glued all over it, gelled his hair back (as if blowing in the wind) and he carried an umbrella inside out…oh, and the tie he wore had a wire attached on the back of it, and it was bent upwards (as if his tie was blowing in the wind)…it was the most creative thing I’ve ever seen
Usually what I do is take one of your average costumes and add the phsyco killer image to it or the zombie image. I’ve been Phsyco killer maid,zombie sock hop girl,Evil Dorothy and many more. I usually get a good reaction from them. Perhaps you should try the same.
Oh my god! I only have 24 days left to pick my costume.
What will I wear?
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As I was saying, I’m going - probably - as a scary suicide bomber (trenchcoat, harness, fake dynamite, wires, brass alarm clock).
There’s been some local objection to that one though, so maybe it’s back to the ol’ scary ghost costume; white sheet over head, sewn from ground to wrists, 2 holes, repeat every year.
My favorite costume was a scary tiger. I was 5.
I figured I’d get crazy this year, just athletic socks and running shoes… go as the crazy, bald, streaker with a large penis…
oh wait, oct 31st… that’s gonna be cold… make that the “crazy ,bald, streaker with a miniscule…”
you get the point…
(once again: I shouldn’t try to be witty… I always fail.)
Back in the Eighties, I went to a Hallowe’en party at Palladium. I wore all blue: clothes, lipstick, gloves, stockings. Then I festooned myself with maxi-pads and tampons. When people asked what I was, I’d proudly tell them, “Picasso’s Blue Period.”
Girls: Gorilla suit with a ballerina’s outfit on over it.
Guys: Gorilla suit with a robin hood outfit on over it.
Screaming btch from hll - super sexy clothes (teddy, backseams, etc.) with one of those scream half-masks (lower half of the face is the mask, screaming mouth. Very freaky mess-with-your-head costume (not mine, BTW).
My son went as a PB&J sandwich last year. I thought that was pretty clever for an almost 4-yewar-old (he was the jelly part of the sandwich). Not that this helps you any…
I remember a guy in college who went as a shower… can’t rememebr how he supported the shower ‘rod’ (a ring of pipe), but had a shower curtain hanging around him, and wore flip flops under it. Many people were afraid to look to see if he was wearing something inside…
You could always steal a page from my little brother’s sketch book - get a politician mask, and some clown makeup and clown clothes, and make up the politician mask as a clown. (Little bro did a superior portrait of Ross Perot as a clown - but in a visionary pose, so you weren’t sure if he was saying that the guy was a visionary who was seen as a clown, or a clown who was seen as a visionary…)
I was once a chicken walking backwards–tail in front, face on the back of the head, feet on the wrong way, etc.–It made for an interesting effect, but the other kids kept walking up behind me and getting insulted when I apparently ignored them.
The next year I was just a plain old polar bear. (But then everyone wanted a bite of my giant fish-shaped cookie.)
I won my local bar’s costume contest with a pirate costume - pj pants loose black ruffled shirt, etc. the devil was in the details - 1 yard stick sword wrapped in foil, a hook, and the bottle of capt. Morgan’s. My favorites I’ve worn include the zombi cowboy and various vampires.
Sick. Just sick. I’ve been at work on mine since June. 
OOooh, my favorite holiday…although I have to say I go for group ensembles when possible.
One year I went with a crew as “the shit” and his fly grrllzz. We raided the dollar store and came up with great fly costumes for the girls. We spraypainted cheap sunglasses and wings, puffy painted black t-shirts and had foil wrapped antennae and fly swatters. We made extra legs by stuffing pantyhose with tp and tying each set of “legs” to our arms…the effect was quite stuffing. Chris, our token male had brown everything including watchcap with fake turd sewn to the top (maybe it was just taped, we WERE in college.) His body was wrapped in voluminous folds of brown fabric that we cinched in with rope and stuffed with tp to give a really authentic look to.
Another year, same crew/same party, we went as the cast of batman- Chris was two-face and Amanda and I were his Sugar 'n Spice. He got a cheap suit from the thrift store and got all dressed up, then I went to work on one half of him with scissors, spray paint, liquid latex, and crazy-ass make-up. He was stunning, and as long as Amanda and I stayed beside him we made a fab ensemble- Granted whenever I strayed I got some interesting propositions in my super-kinky slut-suit…but we had a great time!!
The poison ivy costume took easily as much effort and was stunningly pulled off that year. We had a bunch of ivy left over from a previous toga fete and thought that it would look fab completely covering a strapless pleather boustiere. paired with green tights, spray-painted kelly green Rose’s pumps and red hair dye, the outfit was topped off with a superb facepainting job. my roomate pulled off a reasonable approximation of Uma Thurman…damn!!
If you wore roller skates instead of the shoes, you could go as a pull toy.
FCM, you delight as always.
Back to the OP: Every year, I go as a drunk, dressed as myself.
I always impress!
I just got back from Archon here in St. Louis. There was a guy dressed up as Cobra Commander complete with blue hood and Cobra cane, one as Destro with the steel face and big medalion, a girl as the Baroness, and a whole bunch of guys dressed up as the generic Cobra soldiers complete with blue Cobra helmets and red scarfs.
Nothing quite as crazy as seeing Destro and Cobra Commander on the dance floor. FWIW Cobra Commander had some moves.
Did he perform his patented “Kick-in-the-TV-Screen” move? Man, that rules!
My daughter on my suggestion went as Wonder Girl, a take off of Wonder Woman. Ever since I found out I was having a daughter, I told my husband, I am going to make her Wonder Girl.
Got a pair of Blue Skorts, ironed on White Stars, got her a Wonder Woman shirt, got a Golden Belt with Magic Lasso, Gold and Silver Bracelets made, found a Gold Crown and got a Red Star Glued to it, and my mother in law made her a Wonder Woman Cape.
She has also been Cheerleaders (Jacksonville Jaguars, and University of DE), Lion, Tiger, Butterfly, and this year a Red Dragon and Supergirl.
I’m trying to get together a Willy Wonka costume for Leifsdad and the two kids and I are going to be Oompa-Loompas.
My special gift, one that has earned me the nickname “The MacGuyver of Costuming”, is making costumes out of stuff I already have in my dorm room. In the past I’ve pulled off some pretty good looking costumes this way, including a RHPS Magenta out of a black dress, two white shirts, and toilet paper, and a Zev (from Lexx) out of a white tank top, black sports bra, a twist-tie, and my roommate’s black belt.
I think for Halloween I will combine my frilliest thrift-store dress with a wig and makeup from last Halloween and go as a porcelin doll. If I can scrounge up some cardboard and foil I’ll make a big key and go as a wind-up dancing doll.