YOUR Best (and worst) Halloween Costumes
6It's that time of year folks where we like to dress up in creative ways just to go out drinking.
I'm looking for YOUR (as in not something you just found on the internet) best costume you have done in the past. Also feel free to post about your worst and cheapest ones as well.
To start things off, I will provide a cheapest one. My sophomore year of college there was one night that I went as Flavor Flavvvvv.
How did I pull this amazing feat off?
I grabbed some sunglasses I had laying around: 
Hung this alarm clock from some shoestring as a necklace:
I forget if I wore any particular clothes with it, but that is about it, I had all of the materials on hand to start, so it was pretty simple to do and basically free.
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My worst costume was when I was a teenager, really too old to go trick-or-treating but I went anyway. Blue jeans, a Beatlemania t-shirt and rainbow suspenders.
My favorite was when I played a mentally-unbalanced bride at a friend's Halloween party. We scripted an entire play, the setting was a wake for my dearly departed groom. My friend had a coffin (completed with dummy inside the coffin) and set up his living room as though it were the viewing room at a funeral parlor and he was the funeral director. I wandered around in my rented wedding dress, Timberland workboots and bright red socks, a pack of Marlboro lights stuck in my cleavage, while wearing a feathered mask I had bought in New Orleans. I spent the entire night thanking everyone for coming to my wedding, staying in character the entire night.
What can I say, I've had fun over the years. One Halloween I even had a friend cut lines into my hair, all the way to the scalp and color them in with eyeliner pencils into the shape and shades of flames. Something like this:
Though you can't see the flames real good and that is an old picture.
Or a Rorschach cosplay that doubled as a Halloween costume:
I made the mask myself too.
One of my favorite, but less successful ones was Big Bad Wolf in Grandma's Clothes:
I wore specs, a floral muumuu, bed cap, wolf nose, and lots of base and brown body paint. The picture was toward the end of the night and I had been sweating so my makeup got blotchy. Fun times were had.
@xarous I want to go as Ozymandias
@escowhat But where would we get a giant squid?
@xarous I really thought the way the movie handled it was a much better idea.
@JonT Because they made Doctor Manhattan wear a speedo in post-cinematic releases?
@xarous Nah...because it was a much more coherent and easy to understand plan. It didn't come out of nowhere like the squid.
@JonT I giggled when you said "it" because of aforementioned man-thong. Though yes in the end I was not a fanboy cursing the screen for the lack of squid.
In college, my worst (and possibly best for that reason) was an Incredible Hulk costume complete with the foam Hulk Hands. The place I worked was selling these costume for like $5. (not including hulk hands which I already owned) The only problem was, the costume was a child's size, but I figured I could pull it off and it would just make me look even more muscle-bound. I had that thing stretched to the max! The sleeves didn't go beyond my elbows and the top was basically a midriff. The pants were more like biker shorts leaving very little to the ladies' (and the unfortunate fellas') imagination.
My best costume was probably a dragon/dinosaur costume that my mommy sewed for me way back in the day. She made a different color one for my older brother too. Spikes down the back and a long tail with spikes on it. Those things were awesome. We wore them a lot after Halloween just for fighting in them and stuff.
@medz Send your mommy that last paragraph. She would probably be touched and appreciate it.
@Kidsandliz done
@medz Now you need a gold star instead of a K for being "best son ever"
Right after the first Geico Maxwell commercial starting airing, I decided to go as Maxwell. I walked around all night going, "Wheeee... Whee Whee Wheeee." Huge hit, probably took 50 pictures with people (fortunately they were mostly attractive woman in typical slutty Halloween costumes.)
My latest and greatest was, as you can see: Bacon. Yes, I made it myself. While difficult to see in the picture, the name tag says, "Hello - My name is Kevin" It's amazing how long it took some people to figure it out. I may have topped the picture count with this costume and all night had people yelling from across a very large meeting room (for the Henri David Halloween Ball in Philly - which is incredible), "Baconnnnn." Yes, it's true, everybody loves bacon.
@Cinoclav which pig-related costume are you going to go with this year?
@JonT That question has been gnawing at me for some time...
@Cinoclav Go as a functioning piggy bank and get people to drop money in it, maybe rceover some of your investment
@Cinoclav You should do a sausage costume or the Ham-burglar
Ooooo - Medusa, with snakes for hair. My go-to emergency costume: The Unabomber.
My two best office costumes were the Masque of the Red Death years ago and the pregnant zombie I did last year. The Red Death costume was great because the makeup came out fantastic. I assembled a Victorian formal outfit, then using latex and theaterical paints I created these horrific sores all over my hands and face. People couldn't stand to look at me when they talked to me. One girl turned around and screamed when she saw me. The pregnant zombie was inspired by speculating about what would have happened if Lori's baby had died in the womb on the Walking Dead. Since everyone has the virus it would theoretically have gone zombie. So I cut a very realistic preemie baby doll in half and painted it up all zombie, cut a hole through the belly of a t-shirt and fixed the doll to a waist strap inside to hold it in place. Smeared paintable white acrylic caulk all around the "wound" and gunked it up with blood and gore. Then I did zombie makeup for myself. That's another costume that elicited some genuine horror. I can't seem to find any photos of it though. Maybe on my cameras SD card.
Here we go, the photo from last year's office Halloween. Just looking at all the baby powder I put in my hair to deaden it makes my scalp itch:
Since I can't find costume photos, here are a couple of photos of some cupcakes I made for the office party.
@moondrake very cool spidercakes!
I never did this one and it would have to be at a party of people of "a certain age." Miss Molly
blue dress
high-heeled sneakers
alligator hat
string of pearls
diamond ring
A very cheap one I did in college was a monk- large brown robe & sandals
cheap one I did was 30 gal garbage bag. Cut newspaper into 1" strips the long way. Tape strips in rows all over bag. Paper bag over my head also covered in strips (shades of cousin "It" from the Adam's family).
I haven't worn any really good costumes, but one year one of my buddies did the "free mammogram" costume. This isn't him, but it looked like this.
@jsh139 You are one sick puppy
@Kidsandliz It wasn't me!
Why do I get the feeling that halloween costumes will be showing up in the near future… like maybe tomorrow's deal?
I have a best costume, but I'm out of country away from my pictures until Monday. If you know me you have probably seen pictures. If now, and someone reminds me on Monday i will share.
@Bogie Remember, if nobody reminds you, it's @Thumperchick 's fault
@TaRDy Yes. I could just remind him on Monday. His costumes are pretty great.
@Thumperchick @TaRDy I beat you both too it. I posted lower down.
Best/Worst was the year I went as a mad scientist. I had purchased a white lab coat, brought a stake and a hatchet, and kept adding fake blood to the lab coat as the night progressed. The best part? I'd also bought a real cow's heart (not sure you can get that item at your neighborhood store any more). Someone else came as Nick Chopper (the Tin Woodsman). He did indeed get a heart that night.
My best and worst Halloween costume was in 1992- I went as the Eyeball Fairy. I had a bucket of gum balls that were made to look like eyeballs that I carried around and handed out to people. It was awesome. (my wings are hidden behind me in the pic, and you can hardly see my antennae, which were blinking light-up eyeballs.)
I still have that eyeball sceptre, too... LOL
@Pony
My family did a Futurama theme last year. I was Zoidberg, my brother was Bender, My 5 year old was Leela, and my 3 month old was Nibbler. We decided on the theme about a week before Halloween, so it wasn't the best quality, but it still went over really well. I reused the Nibbler outfit when we took the baby to a Con, and people kept stopping me to take pictures, which amazed me because I had spent the least amount of time throwing hers together. I wish I could find pictures.
My now 6 year old has discovered Pokemon, so that is this years theme.
Edit- All I could find was a picture of my daughter trying on part of Zoidberg that I crocheted. But I don't know how to do images here.
@milujite Find out how to do images here I want to see more! :)
okay:
@Bogie
@Bogie - Quite the Renaissance Man.
@KDemo Pfft, get him to post the pics of his wife, if she's okay with it. Together they (and their costumes) are a stunning couple.
@Thumperchick, @Bogie - I'm told we need to see Mrs Bogie. No holding out!
@KDemo @thumperchick She may not be happy with this picture because she's making a funny face, but here's a more recent:
@Bogie; So, you guys are royalty, or what?
@Bogie: Stunning indeed.
@KDemo oh, no. Just nobility.
@Bogie Wow! There's a lot of money in those outfits. You guys do Ren Fairs?
@Teripie We do. We are newer to the nobility stuff. Actually doing a small local faire this weekend.
Can't get pics right now but I wore a baseball cap with a "c" sticker on it, a baseball type tshirt where the sleeves are one color and the center another and put stickers on it spelling "Go Ceilings!"
I was a ceiling fan
@chellemonkey I can't figure out if this is your best or worst costume…
@JonT easy to say it is both. I don't celebrate Halloween so technically my only Halloween costume ever. I just wanted to not wear my uniform to work and this way I wore jeans.
@JonT I do celebrate the week after halloween cheap candy at stores though
My worst was probably as a young fundie for a youth group "harvest party." We were supposed to come dressed as a character from the Bible. Partly because I knew everyone was going to do the dumbass shepherds in bathrobes bullshit (yes, they did) I came as myself and cited Romans 7.24 (KJV of course). 1) It was the laziest thing I could think of and 2) I imagined it to be way more clever than it actually was; though, in my defense, people seemed to genuinely not get it, which definitely left me feeling more clever than they were (hey, I was, like 16 or 17).
One year for a big party I dressed up as Dilbert/generic computer nerd. Yeah, it was basically my own clothing (short-sleeved white collared shirt, etc.) and a few accessories I had but rarely actually used (pocket protector, old school TI programmable calculator, etc) and some dorky reading glasses. The coup de grâce, IMO, was that I had carefully bent a clothes-hanger and inserted it into my tie so as to mimic the swoop of Dilbert's tie. I won some kind of prize. I think people just liked it because it conformed to their preconceptions of me. Assholes. ;-)
Odd-erable mention. One year, at the age of 10 or 11, I dressed as a woman. I was, if I must say so myself (you would, if you'd actually seen me), quite fetching. I was also quite tall for my age and maybe a little too convincing. Several houses initially refused to give me candy because they thought I was just someone's mom. Sheesh. I also distinctly remember the difficulty (compared to the relative ease when you're a guy in regular guy clothes) of wearing pantyhose and a dress and trying to pee (yaknow, against a tree kinda thing, which I did back in the day, 'cause I guess that's just what we did, damnit; don't you fucking judge 10-year-old Joel).
Spent a few dozen hours with TV boxes, hot glue, foam, and paint. Won Best Elvis at a "Lost Vegas" themed post-apocalyptic Halloween party last year.
Also, about 5 years before that, did the original Lego Man. That was also fun, but Lego Elvis was better.
I really get into Halloween. I did the Dr. McNinja costume back in 2008 and nobody got it. What a bummer.
@InfamousLBX What a dapper creeper.
@JonT You're black-n-white! A monochrome triumph.
Worst costume for me was that of a drowning victim. I discovered a recipe that made plain gelatin look like water but stay solid. So I mixed up a big batch of the very, very thick gelatin and poured it over my head. It looked awesome! I looked sopping wet and half rotted. The amazing costume turned into my worst ever when time came to remove all that gelatin. Couldn’t use boiling water on it. Took days and days to pick and scrape it out of my hair.
Just remembered my cheap costume from last year: UFC Referee.
1.a) Affix a printed out UFC logo via safety pin
Bonus points if you are my cousin that steals my costume because he has dreads and can pass as Herb Dean:
@TaRDy Herb Dean is the man.
A slightly worried gypsy.
Not Halloween, but I was a pretty kick-ass Princess Leia.
Best/Worst Costume: Mens bathrobe, cleavage inducing bra, mens boxers with appropriately rolled and placed sock, fluffy slippers = transvestite. The best part was when a male buddy decided to sit in my lap. He lasted about 30 seconds before the sock made him VERY uncomfortable.
Ok, it doesn't like the first link. Pewp.
@Mavyn Fixed the first link :)
@JonT Thanks! Not sure why it didn't work when the 2nd one did, same source. As one says...meh. :)
Okay so in college I decide that I would try and make costumes for my (at the time) boyfriend and I. We decided R2D2 and C3PO would be pretty good. So I found this super cool fabric from a thrift store and got some felt and paint from Michaels.
Mine turned out pretty good (I think) but poor @Dalek's didn't turn out quite as we'd expected. I didn't know how to sew at the time so @Dalek's costume literally fell apart half way through the night and we had to tie it together with caution tape. I cut the head hole WAY too big for his head and the velcro I'd glued to the seams just didn't stay. But he was such a champ and stayed in costume all night.
This year I think I'm going to be a spoon or a cat emoji. :3
@hollboll if i had the head part, it would have been solid.the picture doesn't do it much justice
@hollboll Your friend's cat head costume is pretty good.
@JonT but it that 8 lives used or 8 lives left?
reply hazy. try again.
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This year, I'm a mad scientist... I mean, ethically-challenged researcher. Whatever's PC.
@PocketBrain I did a take on Superman a few years back. I was Retired Superman. Blue nylon pants pulled halfway up my chest, the S t-shirt, lots of gray in the hair, reading glasses falling down my nose, a cane, and a very weathered looking cape that I shredded, dirtied, and gave burn holes. It was surprisingly well received.
If anyone is dressed up at work today I wanna see some costumes!
If you're not dressed up now then snap a pic before you go out tonight.
@JonT I'm wearing my woot Casual Friday the 13th shirt at work today http://shirt.woot.com/offers/casual-friday-the-13th
@JonT I dressed up to hand out candy.
@JonT We're dressing up tomorrow night for a costume party. This year is my favorite costume we've ever done. And we made a great Shrek and Fiona, unfortunately, there were no pics of that year.
This year is my favorite costume so far:
Perry the Platypus and Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb.