# Most unusual Halloween costume that you have ever worn **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** fashion-clothing\ **Created:** [October 26, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275 "2024-10-26T21:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 26, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/1 "2024-10-26T21:21:33Z")
I wore a Betsy Ross costume, because I wanted one from the dime store (what we called the Five and Ten) for some reason. It included a plastic face mask. I remember nothing else about it except that I must have been carrying a flag. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/2 "2024-10-26T21:33:49Z")
I dated a girl I met at a Halloween party. She came dressed as a cockroach. She said she was protesting her landlord’s failure to do anything about them in her apartment. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/3 "2024-10-26T21:34:32Z")
Mine is a toss-up between a WWI German fighter pilot and a Stalinesque Red Army officer, both put together from items in my closet. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/4 "2024-10-26T21:42:53Z")
My cousin and I dressed up as snowmen to attend a Halloween party. We called ourselves Snow Clones and won a prize. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/5 "2024-10-26T21:44:07Z")
I bought a bunch of el cheapo baby dolls at the dollar store, then I dismembered them and stapled them to an old shirt. I was a pile of dead babies. I won a prize for “worst costume”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/6 "2024-10-26T21:44:28Z")
I never dressed up in anything odd, but the funniest one I saw was a young troop in the military who showed up at a party with garbage taped/glued all over his clothing. Cigarette butts, candy wrappers, food scraps, you name it. When I asked him what he was supposed to be he said (drunkenly), “I’m just a fuckin’ mess.” ---
**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 26, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/7 "2024-10-26T21:54:39Z")
I’ve been so many weird things, it’s hard to pick just one. Among them: - The set containing Chronos. I wore a pair of wire {curly braces} mounted around myself. - The Northern Lights - A Newton’s Cradle - The constellation Orion - A mummified firebreathing mutant vampire zombie alien robot dinosaur - The vacuum energy - A molecule. Ethanol, to be specific. - A chesspiece. A knight, to be specific. - A fire truck - A bunch of grapes - Great A’Tuin, from the Discworld books (the turtle that carries the world on its back) - A 55-gallon can of Pepsi ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/8 "2024-10-26T21:56:52Z")
I have a huge history of wearing odd Halloween costumes. One of my favorites was dressing up as Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter. I was in the early high school years and thought it was a great and simple idea. Just past a red letter A on a long black dress. Hardly anyone knew who I was lol. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/9 "2024-10-26T21:59:23Z")
I’ve never had any grand ideas for a super obscure or weird costume but, one year around age 13, I settled on a fly mask with proboscis and compound eyes, a bowler hat, a plastic walking stick and wore a suit. Everyone asked me what on earth I was and I had no idea but it came together nicely and weirdly. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/10 "2024-10-26T21:59:59Z")
A few years back, it was Halloween and my daughter still had no costume ready. So I put her in a bomber jacket, track pants, Ugg boots, a 1930s-style woman’s turban, a white silk scarf, and my Ray-Ban aviator glasses. Everybody knew she was supposed to be Amelia Earhart because the movie about her had just come out. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/11 "2024-10-26T22:02:01Z")
In San Francisco I used to run a huge halloween pub crawl. I put a lot of effort into my costumes, some of my favorites: - Cthulhu for president (one of the election years, maybe 2012?). A full tentacled Cthulhu mask and a politician’s suit with a “why choose the lesser of two evils” button. - [Lionel from Dead Alive](https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Lionel_Cosgrove) complete with lawnmower - A Skeksis from Dark Crystal Nowadays with kids grown up costumes are kinda an afterthought. Which TBH is kinda how it should be IMO, before coming to the states I thought grown ups doing Halloween was weird 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/12 "2024-10-26T22:05:02Z")
Back in 2001, I read about two people who took a pair of tall boxes, cut windows in them, covered them with flames, and had people jumping out. They put them on and went to a Halloween party as the Twin Towers. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/13 "2024-10-26T22:06:02Z")
A few years ago I was [Frank Rossitano](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tZP1zc0Mqw0NTS3MGD04k8rSszLVijKLy7OLEnMywcAfn4JWw&q=frank+rossitano&oq=Frank+ros&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgFEC4YgAQyDQgAEAAY4wIYsQMYgAQyCggBEC4YsQMYgAQyBggCEEUYOTIHCAMQLhiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQLhiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQLhiABDIHCAoQABiABDINCAsQLhiDARixAxiABDIHCAwQABiABDIJCA0QLhgKGIAEMgcIDhAuGIAE0gEINjgwMmowajeoAhSwAgE&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=mIYDvm_nJsPTHM&imgdii=OCmXprbyVhpOZM) from the show 30 Rock. Most people didn’t know who I was supposed to be, and many others thought I was Wayne from Wayne’s World. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/14 "2024-10-26T22:07:27Z")
When I was in graduate school, and a member of a campus Christian group, we had a costume party at Halloween – though it wasn’t billed as a Halloween party, because it was a pretty conservative group. The theme was “come as your favorite Bible character.” I wore a black shirt, black pants, black shoes, and black sunglasses. A number of people asked if I was dressed as the Devil, but I replied, “no…I’m the second character named in the Bible.” Genesis 1:1-2 (emphasis mine): “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, _ **darkness** _ was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/15 "2024-10-26T22:09:25Z")
These are awesome! I wish I had the energy to do something like this again! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/16 "2024-10-26T22:10:28Z")
Maybe spray your hair with deodorant and go as an armpit? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/17 "2024-10-26T22:11:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Maybe spray your hair with deodorant and go as an armpit? 😉 LOL! Now that sounds doable. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/18 "2024-10-26T22:11:48Z")
For a number of years I answered the door to trick-or-treaters dressed as Santa Claus! I did the laugh, and told them I’d be seeing them again in a couple of months. They were almost always flabbergasted. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/19 "2024-10-26T22:15:20Z")
I’ve always wanted to get dark glasses, sandals, and a volleyball and go as a nudist. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275/20 "2024-10-26T22:17:42Z")
That would cause a bit of a ruckus I imagine. Plus it would be cold this time of year. But an interesting costume. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-halloween-costume-that-you-have-ever-worn/1009275.md?page=2)