# Tell me about your Halloween costume **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821 "2004-09-18T07:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/21 "2004-09-18T23:17:17Z")
I’m going as a goth fairy this year. Glittery dark purple wings, black and purple dress, pointy ears and various other accessories. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/22 "2004-09-18T23:30:49Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I’m wussing this year and going with a store-bought costume but adding some twists. I’m getting a full-body gorilla suit and I’m going to have a friend run up a gown to wear over. Add a tiara, sash and roses and I’m Miss Queen of the Jungle. A friend did something similar, a gorilla costume wearing a harem girl costume. She was a “harem gorilla.” ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/23 "2004-09-19T05:27:09Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Um, that would be _hot_, not cool. > > 😃 Hmm. I think standard policy is to require a picture of anyone who says that. You know, for, um, record-keeping purposes. Gotta be thorough. Be cooperative and post one, would you? In costume, maybe, so that it’s relevant to the thread. Or not; I don’t care. My curiosity is piqued, to say the least. But I will throw out a preliminary… How YOU doin’? 🆒😉 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/24 "2004-09-19T05:32:54Z")
Last year I got 2nd prize at the office costume contest: Had a bloody bandage around my neck and a stuffed white tiger tied to my throat. I had a name badge that identified me as a TEMP at Siegfried and Roy’s Magic Garden. This year we might not have an office party since Halloween is on Sunday. However, if we do have an office party, one of my ideas: The November 3rd Nightmare. I have spoken with the office rabid Republican (and I am the office rabid Democrat) and we are thinking of having two fake New York Post’s made, one with the headlines “Kerry Wins” and the other with the headline, “Bush Wins”. We will carry our respective “nightmare” headlines, both of us with bloody bandages on our wrists. The most elaborate costume group I ever saw was at a West Hollywood Halloween fest (300,000 people show up and close down the street). One group rented an old convertable limo, six guys followed behind with sunglass and in suits as Secret Service and in the car was a hysterical drag queen in a pink costume with pink pill box hat next to a bloody dummy in the back seat. The drag queen kept trying to climb out of the car and the Secret Service kept pushing her back in. It was the sickest, funniest group effort I have ever seen. A close second was a group of about 10 people the year of the big earthquake in SF…they all had big foam rubber buildings of the SF skyline on their heads and as they walked down the street, the buildings were all shaking. And lastly, a classy and simple costume…two guys in regular street clothes who had ornate, old fashion lampshades on their heads and a real light bulb in each (must have been a huge battery in their pants, or they really liked me). ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/25 "2004-09-19T08:10:28Z")
Come Halloween, I’ll be donning the pointy straw hat, blue robes, and black souless countinance of Black Mage. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/26 "2004-09-19T08:23:19Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Hmm. I think standard policy is to require a picture of anyone who says that. You know, for, um, record-keeping purposes. Gotta be thorough. Be cooperative and post one, would you? In costume, maybe, so that it’s relevant to the thread. Or not; I don’t care. My curiosity is piqued, to say the least. But I will throw out a preliminary… > > How YOU doin’? 🆒😉 I do not permit pictures to be taken of myself in costume. I can scrounge some regular ones. Methinks we might need another picture thread–I’ve quite enjoyed the old ones. Dopers are a fine-looking bunch. At any rate, I’m doing quite well, thank you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/27 "2004-09-19T09:03:46Z")
If I can convince my girlfriend, she’ll go in a papier-mache construct with an eye slot and the word “HAM” printed on the front, and I’ll bleach my hair blonde, wear suspenders, paint paint dark smudges under my eyes, and carry a butcher knife. You see, we’d be **Boo Radley** and **Scout** as envisioned in the movie _To Kill a Mockingbird_. Well, I thought it was clever. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/28 "2004-09-19T15:08:49Z")
Because this is the only online pic of me in costume, here’s me in my belly-dancer gear for 2002. [Me](http://www.savagegarden.ca/Events/Haloween_2002/pages/IM001464_JPG.htm). Maybe I should look for the pic of Mr. Lissar in his costume from last year. [Here he is.](http://www.savagegarden.ca/Events/halloween_2003/pages/DSCF0088_JPG.htm). He’s wearing my phoenix headpiece- I think I was in the bathroom. It’s from before he got his hair chopped off. My, he has a goofy expression. I’m still not sure what to wear. I could wear my 12th century Norman getup to work, but what to wear to the club afterwards? ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/29 "2004-09-19T15:18:51Z")
A friend and I are planning to go as Roxy and Velma from _Chicago_. She’s already got a costume, I don’t think I’ll have too much trouble finding one, and it should hide my 6 months pregnant belly, too! Now if I can just get my husband into a zoot suit. . . ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/30 "2004-09-19T15:44:47Z")
I’m in a horse show that has a costume class for horse and rider/handler. I was going to go as Curella DeVil and make my horse a dalmation by putting black spots on her (she’s a white grey). However, I may now steal the idea from **Powers106** (if that’s okay). I can put a green felt blanket over the horse and stick painted styrofoam pool balls on it. I probably can’t get it to stand out straight without spooking the heck out of the poor beast, but even draped over her it should work. I’ll then carry a pool cue and dress like a pool hustler. My favorite last minute costumes have been burglar (dressed in black and put panty hose over my head) and Carrie (grabbed an old hated bridesmaid dress, dumped fake blood on myself, and grabbed some flowers out of the garden). ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/31 "2004-09-19T19:40:01Z")
Mine is very subtle, as the place I work (and would have to dress up for) is a facility with easily freaked-out kids, and since I live in the South I’m a bit limited in the fantasy/horror aspect, so… I’ll be dressed all in black, with a big “P” glued to the front of my shirt. And I’ll use makeup to create the look of my having a rather nasty black eye. Now, of all the really smart Dopers out there, who gets it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/32 "2004-09-19T21:28:04Z")
**Bobkitty** Or, you could attach many Ps, and ^s to your clothing and wear many pieces of gold, and several large diamonds. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/33 "2004-09-19T22:23:32Z")
My favorite was for a party that my roommates and I hosted a couple of years ago. I dressed as “Right Wing Smurf.” I donned a blue T-Shirt and white sweatpants, dyed a pair of cheap gloves blue, and covered the rest of my exposed skin with blue make-up. I wore an NRA cap and strapped a toy gun in a make-shift holster to my hip. The costume went over great, but I made a huge mess, mostly because I was acting as the party bartender. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/34 "2004-09-19T22:43:04Z")
**Akennet** You made the unforgivable error of forgetting the tail. As any examination of the many toys will show, or as was emphasized in the origin of Smurfette, Smurfs have tiny spherical tails. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/35 "2004-09-19T23:19:29Z")
The strangest costume I ever wore was of a cow. For some strange reason, everyone would want to grab my udders, which were strategically placed over my privates. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/36 "2004-09-20T00:48:45Z")
Not wanting to give tooo much away but our costumes this year involve viking hats, pigtails, breastplates and a big f’g hammer. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/37 "2004-09-20T01:57:28Z")
> [@The Mermaid](#): > > Not wanting to give tooo much away but our costumes this year involve viking hats, pigtails, breastplates and a big f’g hammer. For the sake of accuracy- The Vikings wore horned helmets only in a few ceremonies created by their ancestors. The misconception likely springs from the costume designs of Wagner’s original production of his Ring cycle. Valkyries were actually depicted as thin in Viking art. Again, Wagner is to blame. There is some disagreement over whether he wanted Reubenesque divas or whether he wanted divas of the proportions shown in Viking art and was unable to find any. Mjolnir should, of course, be big. However, due to Loki’s transforming himself into a gadfly and stinging the face of one of the dwarves who forged the hammer, the handle is a bit too short. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/38 "2004-09-20T02:15:39Z")
> [@The Mermaid](#): > > Not wanting to give tooo much away but our costumes this year involve viking hats, pigtails, breastplates and a big f’g hammer. _Valhalla, I am coming…_ Have you seen this? [http://www.dennyweb.com/viking\_kittens.htm](http://www.dennyweb.com/viking_kittens.htm) Thanks for all your responses, everyone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/39 "2004-09-20T02:19:33Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > _Valhalla, I am coming…_ That’s up to the valkyries. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821/40 "2004-09-20T02:27:01Z")
I plan on going as the figure from Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” this year. Now, if only I can convince two of my friends to show up as masked gunmen halfway throught the party and drag me out… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-halloween-costume/264821.md?page=3)