Worst Costumes

ClassyLady · #1 10-26-2001, 02:29 AM

For all of you who dressed up or trick or treated for Halloween, what was your absolute WORST costume????

My mother didn't believe in spending money for a costume that I was only going to wear once, so my costumes were consistently bad from year to year. To make things worse, my elementary school had a yearly Halloween Parade in the gym where all of the students would wear their costumes and show the whole school. So, everyone of my classmates saw just how bad Halloween was for me.

Here are some of the worst:

1. I wanted to be a vampire, but the entire costume was too expensive so my mother just bought the cape. I had to wear black courdoroys with a black turtleneck and a cape. Nobody knew what I was supposed to be.

2. The next year my mom decided that she wasn't buying a costume at all. She was going to dress me up as the StayPuft marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. She wrote StayPuft Marshmallows on my father's white sweatsuit and stuffed it with newspaper. The pants were way too big and I had to keep holding them up with one hand. Plus, the newspaper was scrathing me. By the time I took it off, my legs were so ashy I looked like a ghost.

I know I can't be the only one who had to suffer like this.

kiml122 · #2 10-26-2001, 07:42 AM

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Originally posted by ClassyLady
For all of you who dressed up or trick or treated for Halloween, what was your absolute WORST costume????

My mother didn't believe in spending money for a costume that I was only going to wear once, so my costumes were consistently bad from year to year. To make things worse, my elementary school had a yearly Halloween Parade in the gym where all of the students would wear their costumes and show the whole school. So, everyone of my classmates saw just how bad Halloween was for me.

Here are some of the worst:

1. I wanted to be a vampire, but the entire costume was too expensive so my mother just bought the cape. I had to wear black courdoroys with a black turtleneck and a cape. Nobody knew what I was supposed to be.

2. The next year my mom decided that she wasn't buying a costume at all. She was going to dress me up as the StayPuft marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. She wrote StayPuft Marshmallows on my father's white sweatsuit and stuffed it with newspaper. The pants were way too big and I had to keep holding them up with one hand. Plus, the newspaper was scrathing me. By the time I took it off, my legs were so ashy I looked like a ghost.

I know I can't be the only one who had to suffer like this.

Honetly I don't have any bad costume stories, but your are funny as hell. I'm sorry but you made me laugh early this morning. ...thanks for that.

Also please check your PM.

Ideal08 · #3 10-26-2001, 08:29 AM

Man, from kindergarten to 3rd grade, I had THE SAME COSTUME!!! HATED IT, HATED IT, HATED IT. You know, I don't think I've ever talked about this, lawd. I was FRANKENSTEIN. Can you even believe it???? A little girl, FRANKENSTEIN. I hated that friggin costume. HATED IT!!!!! I hated in the first time I wore it, but at least no one could guess who I was. I mean, who woulda guessed a girl was a monster??? The next THREE TIMES, everyone knew who I was, and of course commented, "Didn't you wear that last year?" It was so embarrassing.

IU Intelligence · #4 10-26-2001, 10:47 AM

My mother used to make all of our (mine and my brothers) costumes and we always won contests with them. One year I was Raggedy Anne, then a Bumble Bee, my brother was Mr. T and Incredible Hulk, those are just a few examples.

Anyway, one year I was SUPPOSED to be a cute gray mouse who happened to be a little plump in the stomach area, but when I went to the houses to trick or treat everybody kept saying, "Oh how cute! A pregnant rabbit." I was quite upset.

vanda · #5 10-26-2001, 10:53 AM

One year, my grandmother waited too late to get a costume for me so I had to go as what the store had left: Alan Alda's character from MASH. To this day I get an attitude if anyone brings it up.

Ideal08 · #6 10-26-2001, 12:03 PM

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Anyway, one year I was SUPPOSED to be a cute gray mouse who happened to be a little plump in the stomach area, but when I went to the houses to trick or treat everybody kept saying, "Oh how cute! A pregnant rabbit." I was quite upset.

LMAO!!! WHY would anyone dress a kid as a PREGNANT anything??? LMAO!!!!! People can be so dense sometimes, lol.

Y'all got me cryin' over here... LMAO @ vanda as Alan Alda!! What's so funny is that the character actually had a costume! I mean, really, how many kids watched M*A*S*H? I have NEVER heard of anyone saying, "Mommy, I wanna be a M*A*S*H person!!!" LMAO!!! Why did they even make those????

AKAtude · #7 10-26-2001, 12:47 PM

I don't have any bad costume stories either. I'm so sorry for y'all.

The only thing I hated was wearing those masks and those plastic costumes.

KnowledgeEternal · #8 10-26-2001, 01:13 PM

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Originally posted by vanda
One year, my grandmother waited too late to get a costume for me so I had to go as what the store had left: Alan Alda's character from MASH. To this day I get an attitude if anyone brings it up.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That is hilarious.

#9 10-26-2001, 01:59 PM

OMG you all have me laughing so hard I'm crying over here.

Rain Man · #10 10-27-2001, 02:36 PM

For the record, GCers, Alan Alda's character on M*A*S*H was named Capt./Maj. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, aka HAWKEYE!! I just had to set the record straight.

Vanda, I can understand why you so upset that your mother dressed you up as Hawkeye. It was because they ran out the "Hot Lips" Houlihan costumes (j/k, jokes, yall, just jokes

)

My worst costumes were:

Halloween 1979-Well, the costume wasn't bad at all, just the timing. My mother dressed me up as a clown before school for the Halloween parade--did a great job with the face painting. But I had to go through school all day with it on me, even had a pair of underwear on my head. When I entered my classroom with that getup on, I was bombarded with laughter. It took an hour for the class to stop snickering.

1981 - I was supposed to be a Mexican person, but no one knew that. All I wore was a straw hat and some makeup.

1982 - I didn't have a costume, but a friend of mine created a decent looking mask using a big paper supermarket bag and put it over my head. I was wearing that and street clothes. As DL Hughley would have said, I was supposed to be a "broke negro"

1985 - I was supposed to be this little heard of comic book character called Ibis the Invincible--He wore a turban and a suit and carried an Ibis stick--a wand that he could make things appear, dissappear, etc. The outfit was great, but no one knew who I was b/c no one read the Feb. 1940 issue of Whiz Comics.

1986 - I was supposed to be a ghost, but because the way the sheet was draped around me, people thought I was an Arab sheik.

I stopped with the costuming after that year.

CrimsonTide4 · #11 10-27-2001, 02:58 PM

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Originally posted by ClassyLady
For all of you who dressed up or trick or treated for Halloween, what was your absolute WORST costume????

My mother didn't believe in spending money for a costume that I was only going to wear once, so my costumes were consistently bad from year to year. To make things worse, my elementary school had a yearly Halloween Parade in the gym where all of the students would wear their costumes and show the whole school. So, everyone of my classmates saw just how bad Halloween was for me.

Here are some of the worst:

1. I wanted to be a vampire, but the entire costume was too expensive so my mother just bought the cape. I had to wear black courdoroys with a black turtleneck and a cape. Nobody knew what I was supposed to be.

2. The next year my mom decided that she wasn't buying a costume at all. She was going to dress me up as the StayPuft marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. She wrote StayPuft Marshmallows on my father's white sweatsuit and stuffed it with newspaper. The pants were way too big and I had to keep holding them up with one hand. Plus, the newspaper was scrathing me. By the time I took it off, my legs were so ashy I looked like a ghost.

I know I can't be the only one who had to suffer like this.

I am over here CTHU @ your stories. Sounds like you were a wee bit traumatized as a child. I think the STAY PUFT will be a classic. Do you have pictures??

CrimsonTide4 · #12 10-27-2001, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by vanda
One year, my grandmother waited too late to get a costume for me so I had to go as what the store had left: Alan Alda's character from MASH. To this day I get an attitude if anyone brings it up.

CTHU over here. I am sooooo weak with laughter I can barely type or pull up a really good smilie. You poor thing.

I was really blessed then because the costumes I remember were not traumatic at all. My mom made 3 of them: the witch, the clown, and I forget the other one.

Elevated1 · #13 10-27-2001, 03:14 PM

Click this link if you want to see a really bad costume idea...

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stor...3-Horrific.sto

ClassyLady · #14 10-27-2001, 10:43 PM

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

I am over here CTHU @ your stories. Sounds like you were a wee bit traumatized as a child. I think the STAY PUFT will be a classic. Do you have pictures??

NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I was old enough to refuse. I was so mad and the worst part was that my sister, who was about 16, helped my mom put the monstrosity (sp?) together. Actually, it was her idea to spray baby powder in my face instead of buying make up.

CrimsonTide4 · #15 10-27-2001, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by ClassyLady

NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I was old enough to refuse. I was so mad and the worst part was that my sister, who was about 16, helped my mom put the monstrosity (sp?) together. Actually, it was her idea to spray baby powder in my face instead of buying make up.

AAAAAAW H*LL NAW -- Spray Baby Powder!?!?!!?

There is a BABY POWDER SPRAY!?!?
Hmmmmmmmmm
STILL LMAO though.