Thanks. I’ve always enjoyed superheroes with dubious powers.
As a kid in the late 60s, early 70s my costume of choice was always a hippie. My mom would paint a flower and a peace sign on my face, I’d wear a headband, “mini” skirt, vest, love beads, boots, etc. One Halloween was particularly awful in the weather department. In MN, half of the time we had to wear our winter jackets over our costumes. That year it was cold AND raining. In fact the weather was so crummy that they announced on the news that kids could go trick or treating the next night also. We persevered! We were going out no matter what the weather. The hippie costume that I wore that day to school wasn’t going to cut it, according to my mom. Her idea to keep me warm was to dress me up like a French fur trader/lumber jack! 
You can imagine the protests that 10 yo me made that night! She drew a mustache and beard on my face, had me wear a long stocking tassel hat, long underwear with a flannel shirt and pants tucked into a pair of boots. There is a picture of my mom drawing on the mustache and the look on my face is priceless. I hated it so much! I laugh every time I see that picture.
I once spent almost a month making a Scotsman costume not for Halloween but for Fasching. I had a homemade Balmoral, a fisherman’s sweater, a plaid pinned over my shoulder, a kilt that a female friend sewed for me with fabric I’d bought, knee socks, and buckled shoes. About the only things I didn’t have were a sporran, a genuine clan badge, a kilt pin, a sgian dubh, and garter flashes. It still looked very authentic, and I won First Prize.
I was 18 at the time, and the party was held by my high school German class.
A year after we got married my wife, who was working in a vegetable cannery, brought home a whole bunch of labels. For a department Halloween party we constructed a can for her using oak tag with the labels pasted on arranged in a circle with some string to suspend it from her shoulders. Under it she wore a tube top and shorts. The can was long enough to extend slightly above the top and slightly below the shorts so it looked like she had nothing on underneath.
A lot of guys decided they needed to talk to her right up close.
We reproduced it for a costume party on the QE2. I was going to buy the picture they took, but someone bought it before me.
This year’s Dollar Store Medusa! Most of the people at work like it, although there is one lady avoiding me because she has a phobia of snakes. 
Love it!
You look amazing. 
Thanks for sharing!
She beautiful!
Great concept! Well done!
Thanks, y’all! I think it’s one of my favorite costumes ever, for being simple and cheap, and also leaving room for creativity. Like I think somebody could do a lot more with makeup or false fingernails, or what have you.
Also, I feel like I really dig snakes. 
I won 3rd place in a contest at a bar in Hollywood 20 years ago…wearing my regular clothes but with a baby bjorn and this goofy 18inch long skeleton I bought at Target that I dressed in a onesie and a tiny new born beanie.
I was “A Neglectful Father.”
One year, having not planned on a costume, threw on my full-length wetsuit and headed off to the party. Didn’t think to bring a change of clothes.
Turned out to be a really bad idea. For lots of reasons.