Post your Halloween costume ideas here

[spinbaby]

Bonus points for low-cost ideas and costumes that work for groups.

I did Miss Piggy once in an old bridesmaid's dress, a cheap blonde wig, elbow-length pink gloves from the thrift store, and a rubber pig nose.

[pdx_prog]

1. Giant pair of tighty whities

and three people inside dressed like the fruit of the loom guys...

[Patiod]

2. Raisin in belly button - go as a cookie (serious ideas, too....)

Seriously - My S.O. actually won a contest once by wearing his tux, a $1.50 "phantom" 1/2 mask, and a cape that I stitched up in 10 minutes (just bought black satin, turned over one edge and sewed, insert black satin ribbon and pulled like a drawstring)- instant opera cape.

One year back in college, I glued blue felt stars to a pair of white short-shorts, wore white knee socks with white espadrilles (looked like boots), made a little white vest with blue felt stars, stuffed a pair of knee socks into a blue blouse and tied it around my ribs and went as a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. I had boys following me around like a pack of dogs (I was also 5'10" and 120 at the time, with flat-chested but otherwise hot body).

One guy was almost drooling, so I pulled out a pair of kneesocks and offered them to him, saying "here, wanna cop a feel?" Best. Costume. Ever.

[gmoney]

20. Guess you had real sox appeal that night...

I'm sure you have, um, pictures from that party... um, you know... umhh..



:blush: :hide:

[Patiod]

23. Puns - the lowest form of humor!!!!

:spank:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I turned by son into a hula girl with a green garbage bag that I made

into a grass skirt. I wrapped a colored print scarf around his top, gave him a lei, and put another scarf around his head with loop ear rings attached to it. We had just moved and didn't have time to sew him a costume.

I also once sewed a cow costume for my dog!

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. I've always wanted to go as Deee-Lite.

I could pull off a decent Dmitry; but I don't have a tall, skinny woman to play Kier, or a little Japanese guy to go as Towa Towa.

[FLSurfer]

5. Low budget costume

One white T-shirt and a black marker.
Put a giant letter P on the shirt and color in a "black eye" with the same marker.

Black eyed pea. Get it?

[KyndCulture]

6. I won a contest a few years back with about 15.00 worth of stuff..

It was a plastic tarp that I stapled small colorful balloons to (which popped all night - double fun) and was a bag of Brach's Jelly beans.

[CornField]

7. We did "delivery" one year

(No, I swear this doesn't have anything to do with the postman!)

I was the delivery person and the three kids were a slice of pizza, a can of soda & a bottle of Tums.

We've also done "dog walker" with me as the walker and each kid as a different dog. (Really handy when the two youngest were little... I could keep them on a leash! LOL!)

My sweet and often odd husband painted his upper body and head brown and put a large box around his waist, filled with kitty litter.

Edited because my 13-yr-old just double-dog dared me to share this photo:



Mr. CornField and I doing the cross-dressing thing a few years ago.

[HEAVYHEART]

8. Haven't decided on the details yet

but I know for sure i'll be a vampire. I'm a vampire every year.

[Left Is Write]

9. I don't have any ideas, but I need some!

We got invited to a Halloween party, and we need costumes for ourselves for the first time in years!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. A Chimpy costume

It involves the mask below, with a rumpled blue suit. For effect, you can hold a bottle of Jim Beam in your right hand and a bag of pretzels in your left. You can add sprinkles of white powder of your choice on the lapels and urine, vomit, and whiskey stains on the front of the suit.

[Lisa]

16. don't forget the back bulge!

Tape one of those little mini-boxes of cereal to your back (or to your shirt) prior to putting on the jacket.

[thefloyd]

11. I have always wanted to

dress up as the Flex Capacitor. Big box with the appropiate lighting

[graywarrior]

12. I wore a toilet seat and cover. Put my head through the seat hole

and wore it on my shoulders with the lid slapping the back of my head and a roll ot toilet paper attached by a rope to my waist.

[DanCa]

13. I am stitching a half Dr Zayus half Bush mask.

Would wearring a german uniform be pushing it?

[johnnie]

14. Put tire tracks across your back

Stick some little pieces of fur on yourself and go as roadkill.

[graywarrior]

15. Now that's funny.

[Lisa]

17. for the scientists (just to get you out of the lab)

A hydrogen atom. Draw a "+" on the front of a plain white T-shirt. Show up with a yo-yo that has a "-" on it.

A cell. You could wear a cardboard box, around you if it's large enough (or around your neck if not) if you want to be a plant cell (cut a door in the "wall" and attach a fold-out diagram of the various cell parts). Or you could just draw the organelles directly onto a plastic dry-cleaning bag (the "membrane" if you're an animal cell). My classmate did this, and was able to study for her bio midterm at the same time!

[StellaBlue]

18. .

And my local record store is selling Jacko masks that are pretty scary.

[gmoney]

21. Look at those puppies...

You know, that kind of costume attracts hurricanes. Just ask the folks in N'awlins and Key West.

[StellaBlue]

19. Also

I once dressed up as a pregnant, East Texas homecoming queen from the 80s. But that wasn't for Halloween.

[DanCa]

22. A name tag that says god,

pinned to the outside of my jacket.