# Let's Talk Halloween Costumes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673 "2013-10-08T12:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 8, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/1 "2013-10-08T12:52:28Z")
So, I’m in the doghouse. I accepted a party invite a few weeks ago for my wife and I, and I completely missed that it was a costume party. My wife is less than thrilled, especially at the lack of notice. It’s in 2.5 weeks. We’d prefer some sort of couple-themed costume, because we’re absurd like that. Bonus points for ease of creation and lack of makeup. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/2 "2013-10-08T14:45:08Z")
It’s hard to offer suggestions if you don’t say what kind of costumes you like. Having said that, pirates are always good - loose shirts, scarves as sashes, bandanas, eyepatches… ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/3 "2013-10-08T15:12:02Z")
I know you don’t like makeup, but few costumes are as easy to throw together as a pair of zombie costumes. My husband and I do that every time we need a costume on short notice. All you need is some clothes you don’t mind getting bloody and fake blood. You can embellish this basic plan as little or as much as you like. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/4 "2013-10-08T15:14:18Z")
Hmmmm… Pirate costumes are very easy to create and also don’t get in the way of drinking and dancing. And afterwards, you rarely have any makeup to remove. I like that. Arrrrr… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/5 "2013-10-08T15:30:22Z")
If you’re at all close size-wise, just swap a work outfit with your wife and go as your “better half”. ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/6 "2013-10-08T15:37:10Z")
Well, it’s looking like we’re leaning toward going as Hank and Marie from Breaking Bad. Walt and Jesse are out, since it looks like yellow haz mat suits and gas masks are going to be selling for premiums for a while… ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/7 "2013-10-08T15:52:12Z")
Whenever my mother had to get together costumes for me and my siblings without expending a lot of time and resources, she dressed us as Depression-era hobos, wearing clothes out of the Rag Bag and with charcoal on our faces to simulate 5 o’clock shadow. The ultimate no-effort costume is the ghost made from a sheet, of course, but I’m assuming you don’t want to go quite that basic. How about Bonnie and Clyde? Laurel and Hardy? Hall and Oates? Maybe somebody more modern, like Pitt and Jolie? You could do all of those with just a trip to the thrift store. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/8 "2013-10-08T16:36:57Z")
Goodwill has everything you need to be 1970’s disco dancers. Or 1980’s anything. Burkas and robes are easy, if you’re not too PC. Leather jacket & headband = biker. Grab some leaves from the yard and Viola! Adam and Eve! Of course, all the women have to be sexy “something” these days…Nurse, cop, firefighter, etc… Do post some pix if you choose this direction. ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/9 "2013-10-08T18:38:35Z")
Normally my wife and I do much more elaborate costumes and they are never tied to each other. But this year we have opted to do a couple costume and it is VERY low budget. You may steal if it you wish as it is very simple with no makeup as you requested. Both wear blue clothes and have a name tag. His says “Gene” and her says “Jean”. You are a pair of Bluejeans ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/10 "2013-10-08T20:18:13Z")
Rob Cockerham at [cockeyed.com](http://cockeyed.com) always have some very creative costumes that he has constructed. [Index of Incredible Costumes](http://cockeyed.com/incredible/costumes.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/11 "2013-10-08T20:19:47Z")
Lil Jon Snow and Eazy E-gritte ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/12 "2013-10-08T20:32:16Z")
We went as Scully and Mulder from the X-Files one year. I wore a navy pantsuit with pumps, and Mr. Kat wore gray dockers, a white dress shirt and tie, and a dark windbreaker that we put “FBI” in cheap stick-on letters on. I was featuring a reddish bob at the time, so hair and makeup was pretty much taken care of. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/13 "2013-10-08T20:40:22Z")
You could always be Assault and Battery (a salt and battery). I shouldn’t think it’d be too hard to color a couple of big cardboard sandwich thingies, and it’s always a cute joke. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/14 "2013-10-08T20:55:56Z")
Do you each have blue jeans and a plaid shirt? Then you can get a pair of cowboy hats from a dollar store and you’re cowhands. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/15 "2013-10-09T16:19:53Z")
I kind of wish we had a party to go to just so I could dress my man friend (who is quite decidedly NOT a hipster) as a hipster dude with the skinny jeans, sweater, artisinal beard, horn rims, beanie etc. I’m at a loss as to what the hipster chick uniform is though. Goodwill or the Sally, as mentioned above, have ALL the answers for very little scratch. ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/16 "2013-10-09T22:19:08Z")
Her: t-shirt with the letter “V” on it, and she’s carrying an oar/paddle You: t-shirt with the letter “S” on it, and you wear fishing waders Roe vs Wade… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/17 "2013-10-09T22:33:55Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > I’m at a loss as to what the hipster chick uniform is though. Oversized black plastic rimmed glasses, any style of hat which looks too big or too small and pushes your thick cut bangs into your eyes (if you don’t have thick bangs, part your hair off center and floof it), a cotton blouse with precious little cap sleeves and tiny nonfunctional buttons and denim shorts or miniskirt over leggings or leg warmers (or both), with brightly colored ankle boots that don’t match anything else on your body. Finish it off with more things around your neck than can possibly belong there, such as a men’s tie, beads and/or a square scarf tied on the diagonal. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/18 "2013-10-09T23:01:07Z")
Hick & chick. Plaid flannel shirt, a pair of Daisy Dukes and eyebrow pencil freckles. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/19 "2013-10-10T15:27:40Z")
I found some older [home-made costumes](http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53069/18-terrifying-old-costumes-you-cant-unsee)you could try… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673/20 "2013-10-10T16:01:08Z")
Since I always see them around my neighborhood I’ve always wanted to dress up as a _Mormon Youth_. Black pants, short sleeve white dress shirt, black tie, bicycle helmet, backback full of bibles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-halloween-costumes/670673.md?page=2)