What was your best Halloween Costume?

[mysteryowl]

I need some ideas. I remember as a child being a 6 legged spider. That was very fun, but I can't pull-off wearing tights anymore.

I was thinking of being "a person in the wind". Attaching street trash to my clothes and using hair goo to make my hair stand out to one side as though being in the wind.

[skylucy]

1. I was a kindergarten teacher for 38 years and one year I pinned numbers all over my

clothes and wore a sign on my back that said "I'm someone you can count on." Great for teaching the numbers and the adults got the pun.

I love your idea!

[mysteryowl]

3. Oh! Fantastic!!!!

[angstlessk]

2. I remember using a marine cami uniform and smallened it

to child size...maybe a navy/army store?

[mysteryowl]

4. Huh?

[angstlessk]

7. A camouflage marine uniform..adult size, since kids aren't marines

I just cut lengths from the legs, arms, and tightened the overall width, sewed it all back together, so my munchkin looked like a marine in camouflage.

[mysteryowl]

14. Oh, I get it.

Good one.

[redwitch]

5. I went to one party as Helen Blazes, Queen of Hell

Put together red tulle and satin puffy dress, sprayed my red hair crimson, over did the make up. Handed out business cards with my name and phone number which of course was 1-800-666-6666 and the motto “Snares, pitfalls and temptations my specialty”.

I had great fun with that costume!

[mysteryowl]

6. Ha! and you screen name is "Red Witch"

You have a theme.

[redwitch]

19. LOL

I can assure you that I am not any kind of evil anything!

[mysteryowl]

20. Oh, sure... I believe you...

[lunasun]

8. Me Grim Reaper was my best. You could use a turned out umbrella as a wind prop

[mysteryowl]

10. Thanks for the umbrella idea, good one!

Grim reaper, scary.

[PennyK]

9. Frank N. Furter

I also dressed as Marilyn Monroe one year.
But my daughter dressed up several years ago in a tutu made of newspaper and went as 'The Death of Print Journalism!'

[mysteryowl]

11. Ha!

What an advanced child you have!

[TygrBright]

12. That would be the year I cut one side from a gallon milk carton.

I put it on my head and went as a Missing Child.

sheepishly,
Bright

[mysteryowl]

15. Ha!

[LisaM]

13. The Stanley Cup, but it was really hard to move around.

I basically had to put it on, show people my costume, then take it off.

Years ago I went to a party where the winning costume was very, very simple. The person just dressed in black clothes, cut out the middle of a plastic laundry basket and put it around his chest, added a few wadded up clothes, put an empty cardboard box of detergent over his head, and waved an empty bottle of bleach. This was at a huge gathering, a charity fundraiser. He was the clear favorite, over many more elaborate costumes. When they announced, "the Laundry Basket!!" everyone cheered.

They might have been simpler times, but I always remembered that fun costume.

[mysteryowl]

17. I like it!

[femmedem]

16. Your idea is great!

One year Mr. femmedem and I wore black berets and turtlenecks. I painted nude, semi-abstract portraits on cardboard of our torsos, framed them, and we wore them over our clothes. (This was at a Halloween party at an art gallery.)

[mysteryowl]

18. Nice!!

[KT2000]

21. Magna-Tox TV

but people probably wouldn't know what that is now.
I painted a box black and cut out where the screen is. I wore it on my head.

[Solly Mack]

22. I went as a box of SpermEEZ. (sperm ease)

I had a basket of little boxes that said the same as my costume to hand out. I used a box, covered it in pink paper, used white paper for the labels w/ black print. Tucked my body inside (head, arms and legs free) and walked around as a method for having a baby without the hassles of a relationship with a man.

The who needs a man plan. Just add water.

Not even a sperm bank can claim that!

* Turkey baster not included.

Because I could. And I was a little angry at the time.

[targetpractice]

23. Easy to do, last minute... I wore all white...

...with little laminated cards stuck all over my body with typeset quotes like...

"The check is in the mail."
"Sorry, I need to wash my hair tonight."
"Something suddenly came up."
"No new taxes."

I was a little white lie.

I worked at Kinko's at time, and got invited to a party at the last minute... I took advantage of Kinko's resources before I finished my shift.

[cyclonefence]

24. One year I made my son into a basket of dirty laundry

Cut a hole in the bottom of a plastic clothes basket for his legs to fit through, then strings like suspenders to go over his shoulders to hold it up. Load it up with old towels etc and stick an empty detergent bottle in at a jaunty angle.

[rurallib]

25. Kid next door once pulled a clear plastic bag up around her body

and then filled it with blown up balloons of all colors.
She was an M&M vending machine.

[Kali]

26. I had 8 legs for my spiders!

Puffy brown spider when I was a kid and sexy black widow with red sequin hourglass when I was not a kid.

[lapfog_1]

27. back in 1986

I went with my roommates to a costume party...

We had workman jumpsuits on, with glow sticks on the inside (they were new then), faked geiger counters (on max with the volume muted most of the time) work boots, hard hats... and, in Russian, "Chernobyl Pipe-fitters Union" stitched on the back.

A little bit of gallows humor... but I was young.

Anyway, we won the costume contest.

[SunnyBaudelaire]

28. I was 10 and went as Cher!!!

Here’s an idea you can go as “Melanie”

https://www.amazon.com/Spazeup-Melania-Womens-Mechanic-Graffiti/dp/B07F2FKHQF?keywords=who+cares+what+you+think.+jacket&qid=1537925057&sr=8-1-fkmr2&ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr2_1

https://www.amazon.com/New-Look-Wigs-Halloween-Character/dp/B076MCDMPT?crid=W4IGP15FZRTZ&keywords=melania+wig+costume&qid=1537925241&sprefix=melania+wig&sr=8-2&ref=mp_s_a_1_2

[Funtatlaguy]

29. Mushroom headed Mario Kart costumes should be popular this year.

[Aristus]

30. Lord Byron.

I put together a terrific Empire-period outfit out of my own wardrobe, complete with leather riding boots. I walked with a limp, and carried a sheet of paper with Byron's poem So We'll Go No More A'Roving written out in calligraphy.

A year later, I recycled some of my costume elements to play Montresor in a Halloween production of "The Cask Of Amontillado":

[Danmel]

31. Connie conehead

When I was in college. I made a cone out of oaktag. Painted it with foundation make-up. Made "sensor rings" with aluminum foil.
My head was sweaty, but it was a great costume.

[keithbvadu2]

32. Naked on roller skates as a pull toy.

Naked on roller skates as a pull toy.

(Not really)

[krispos42]

33. This year I'm going as Florida Man, the world's worst super hero

I've got my mullet-and-beard wig, my tacky (I heart beer and titties) trucker hat, my "cape" (the state flag), a sleeveless tee, a chain for my wallet, and a bandolier that should hold 7 cans of Busch Light.

I just need to design a Florida Man logo and get it on the shirt!

https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/

[zanana1]

34. I went as a hooker.

I wore a long, brassy blond wig, fishnet stockings, a very short skirt and I wore a much-too-large bra and stuffed it. Oh; and my makeup was amazing. It was an easy (heh) costume.