# Suggest a good cheap Halloween costume

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 12, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-good-cheap-halloween-costume/513563 "2009-10-12T18:37:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-good-cheap-halloween-costume/513563/41 "2009-10-16T21:08:19Z")

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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> I wasn’t planning on needing one, but the boyfriend’s TV show has a live taping with a costume contest and I thought maybe I’d make one. They’re supposed to be cheap costumes (around ten bucks, I think) and creative. So of course while I would normally have a million ideas I can’t think of one. Suggestions?
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> ETA - Oh, and I need it for Saturday! 🙂

My son took a blue t-shirt, glued some cotton balls to it, and carried a squirt gun. He was “partly cloudy with a chance of rain.” Quick, cheap, and I suppose rather clever if you’re in the right mood.

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-good-cheap-halloween-costume/513563/42 "2009-10-18T02:59:04Z")

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A dog is pretty easy. Take a sweatshirt/sweatpants and turn them inside out. Sew a few spots of felt on it in scattered places. Use that same felt material to make a tube and stuff it for a tail. Buy some dog ears or else make simple floppy ears out of the left over felt and sew or glue them onto a headband. Draw some whiskers on your face and a black dog nose… DOG!

Another cheap idea my brother and fiance are using is the gangster thing. They both own pinstripe suites and are borrowing my fedoras. Tote a cheap toy machine gun and you’ve got a 20s gangster!

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-good-cheap-halloween-costume/513563/43 "2009-10-18T04:56:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> A dog is pretty easy. Take a sweatshirt/sweatpants and turn them inside out. Sew a few spots of felt on it in scattered places. Use that same felt material to make a tube and stuff it for a tail. Buy some dog ears or else make simple floppy ears out of the left over felt and sew or glue them onto a headband. Draw some whiskers on your face and a black dog nose… DOG!

You can do it even simpler. Take a pair of dark brown pantyhose and put them on your head. The legs form long floppy ears.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-good-cheap-halloween-costume/513563/44 "2009-10-20T19:19:35Z")

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This just in: we’ve convinced my mother-in-law to go as “chopped liver”. The theory: cut up some foam into cubes, paint them brown or just wrap them in dark tinted pantyhose, and pin them to a shirt. Accentuate with a rubber meat cleaver.

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