Are you one of those people who just can’t dress up as a vampire every year? I know I can’t. This year I decided to risk my life and made a World Trade Center costume. A friend teamed up (he’s Anthrax) for three days of welding, wiring, and painting.
So far we’ve gotten great rounds of belly laughs. We’re still worried that one angry person will punch us out, but it’s been worth it.
What’s the most unusual Halloween costume you ever made?
giant-chocolate-chip-cookie,
Medusa-
wood-nymph,
Miss-Mollie—i.e.a-devil-with-a-blue-dress-on,
lady-godiva-
Psychobitch-ex-girlfriend-from-hell,
black-widow,
fourtynine%sweetheart-51%bitch
cat
elvira
Roommate: Dons a black cape and some vampire teeth What do you think of my costume?
racinchikki: Not bad. Very mod.
Roommate: Show me yours!
racinchikki: Hasn’t even thought about a Halloween costume yet! Looks around the room to see what’s available; finds only the fabric she recently ordered from eBay to make a couple of blankets only to discover it’s not the right kind of material; wraps herself in 15 yards of 60"-wide blue and black flannel What do you think?
Roommate: Er, what are you?
racinchikki: Plaid.
Roommate: Laughs That’s not a costume!
racinchikki: It is now.
Mermaid, how do you dress as the psycho-bitch-ex-girlfriend-from-hell? Sounds like just the costume for me.
I’m not dressing up this year, but my whippet will be disguised as a sheep.
Or a bunny.
It depends on the amount of material really available from the doggy bed he shredded.
Maybe I’ll go as Little Bo Peep–eek.
I still don’t have a costume (or plans, really) for this year, but a few years ago after a mishap with hair dye - I was trying to go red but ended up pink - I improvised. I wore my black boots, yellow pants, a yellow shirt with a big black “2” on it, painted my face silver and went to the party as … a pencil.
I was proud.
-Syko
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” - Ralph Wiggum
Just the towers, before the assault? Or are you adding the accoutrements described in this thread? (Scroll down to Annie-Xmas’s post, and beyond.) If so, please post back and let us know what reactions you get.
If you’re just going as the towers, that sounds touching. In a weird way.
[sub]In 1997, I speculated about wearing a pink suit and blond wig, and slathering on fake blood: Diana Spencer after the crash. I was talked out of it.[/sub]
Put a sign on myself saying “Asian”. Put a sign on my room-mate saying “American”. (Both signs being accurate descriptions of the places of our origin.) Had her stand to my left and we went as an Asian-American. I said things like, “Hi, I was just wondering, what grades did you get in the Orgo mid-term? My parents almost killed me when I got a B+.” My room-mate told me to shut up but we won the college prize for Best Room-mates Costume. (We were the only ones.)
This year, I’m thinking of dressing as an Arab terrorist and getting my American boyfriend to dress as a American pilot. Well, that was my idea. His idea was that I should don a veil splattered with red paint, he would carry a bucket labelled “Pigs’ Blood” and we would go as “A Hate Crime”.
Let’s see.
I mde my own costume last year. A water sprite. It was actally rather nifty. This year, I’m doing the vampire thing, but I went all out coz it’s my last Halloween at home. Custom fangs that fit my teeth, brand new corset, skirt, and cape. It actally looks really good.
But the best costumes I’ve seen would’ve been my two best friends from 8th grade. One was a fridge, and the other, a giant piece of broccoli. Oh, and one year, anther friend was a car.
I love this time of year!
3-headed alien
Classic old lady with baby on her back-you know, a fake old lady head, and my head (unshaven)attached to the infant’s body. I still have the Cabbage Patch kid I decapitated to make this.
Cenobite1- Used an old Halloween masek, but put a pair of Mom’s earing in th eye holes. I could see out, but everyone else say metal eyes. Made elaborate robe. Made wooden cube puzzle into Lament Configuration. Box was held be a skeletal hand emerging from my chest.
Cenobite2-Reused mask and cube. From front, I look like a monk. From back, I looked like a Cenobite holding the cube. Made a dummy head out of soda/milk bottles. Fake arms from wire hangers and gloves. Used a shirt manequin(It’s just a neck, shoulders and the front of a chest). Covered the dummy in mask and clothing and strapped it to me with suspenders. Some people thought I was actually 2 people in a connected costume.
Priest of Cthulhu-Borrowed one of Mom’s weird coats. Made green felt mask, oversized and mounted on part of gallon milk jug so my head looks too big. Made Cthulhu statue from plastic lemon, old action figure, ceramic toad, sugarless gum and plenty of paint. Mounted statue on brass rod. Made Cthulhu tracts to hand out.
This year-Techno Knight-Chest piece made of reflective metal squares, sheet aluminum and those hollow cable you put gas lines in. Helmet-motorcycle helmet visor, 2 TV antennas, mounted on harness of shoe laces. Left arm-half gallon milk bottle with-camera lens in mouth, dials, cell phone buttons, and backlit needle-guages that jump in response to sound. Right arm-big plastic cup with-sliding claws on track, swivel mounted gun. Plus a clear staff filled with blinking lights and top with an axe made to resemble an eagle.
Accoutrements galore. I’m actually only one of the towers. It’s constructed of a cloth and foam skin painted to look like the WTC exterior, stretched over a metal frame. There’s a “radio tower” on top with a flashing red LED light, holes for my face and arms, and a large jagged hole in the chest area. There we’ve rigged up flashing yellow and red lights, a small fan, and multicolored ribbons to represent flames.
The costume is miniskirt length. I wear black tights and high heeled shoes beneath it.
It’s seen one night on the town in Hollywood so far. The responses have been wonderful. Our main concern has been making sure that the Pixy Stix in Anthrax’s mailbag don’t break.
It’s far and away the most un-PC costume I’ve ever worn, but people love it.
Well, all right…
I’m going as a Computer/Geek. Made a computery-looking torso cover out of a large cardboard box, painted almond like PC cases always are. Printed out a screen shot for the “monitor” portion w/all manner of subversive crap on it: “All your base,” Google image search for “people having sex with goats that are on fire,” “Weeeee!” Flash animation, etc. I have an extra keyboard mounted loincloth-style, but I will have pants on - extra high flood-type. A few manic flashing LED’s for the power, drive light, etc. Mini-speakers mounted on shoulders. Even the front face and drawer of an old CD-ROM with a disc sticking out. I’m going to shave my beard off, wear some little round glasses with tape on the hinge, mousse my hair in crazy directions, and spend the night snickering things like “I bet you programmed your web site with FrontPage™!”
I once went as a barrel of toxic waste(got the idea from Calvin and Hobbes), and another time as a potato. I won an award for best costume with the toxic waste, but people just looked at me wierd in the potato costume.
I once went as the Stanley Cup – I built the thing myself out of cardboard, silver paint, and a foil-wrapped bowl (and got all the team info out of an old Hockey Encyclopedia). My siblings all wore hockey uniforms to go with it.
This was some years before the Red Wings won the Cup (in 1997), so not many people figured out what I was. Apparently there weren’t many hockey fans in our neighboorhood.
I think I’m going to need a costume this year (my program is having a Halloween party) but I’m not sure what to dress up as. Last year I dressed as a medieval pilgrim, with cockleshell hat, cloak, sandals, staff, and bag of relics, but again, not many people got it.
In ninth grade I went to school as myself with a pencil stabbed in my forehead. I cut a pencil in half, applied it with fake skin, and a liberal dollop of vampire blood. Simple, understated, but got a hell of a lot of comments on it.
A friend of mine recently went to a Halloween party dressed as the World Trade Center.
His friend went as a plane.
Just wanted to drop back in to mention that I went to the party last night wearing my computer costume, and I was the TALK of the place. Everybody was coming right up and checking out all the little detail work I put into it, generally oohing and aaahing. Plus, near the end of the night I went around with a Sharpie and had everyone sign the box, so now I have a kick-ass memento.
I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in years.
But I’m thinking of digging up my axe murderer costume for the office Halloween party this week.
Piece de resistance: a couple (paper mache) heads with lolling tongues, frozen wide eyes and bloody guts dripping from the necks. Appropriately hanging from an executioner axe handle.
Last time I attempted this and went trick-or-treating, a couple mothers thought the heads were real.
Silly people.
Huh? What would that look like? Not that I’m judging him, but he’s really offensive.