Halloween Costume

[GeekyPenguin]

I wanted to reprise my pro-choice shotgun wedding bride costume from two years ago, but we're going to a party with a competition for best couples costume, so now I am trying to think of something good for the Conservinator and I to be - I kind of want to do Hansel and Gretel but he's not a big fan of that idea.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

I wanted to reprise my pro-choice shotgun wedding bride costume from two years ago, but we're going to a party with a competition for best couples costume, so now I am trying to think of something good for the Conservinator and I to be - I kind of want to do Hansel and Gretel but he's not a big fan of that idea.

My friend did Raggady Ann and Andy. Except she was Andy and he was Ann.

Im going as an ADULT for halloween....
That requires that you just put on your regular clothes...

[Buttonz]

If I dress up it will be in my Cat in the Hat costume. I tried to get my night professor to give us extra credit if we showed up in costume and he said no

[sunnyhibiscus]

I don't know what I want to be for Halloween. I'm deciding between a sailor, a snow queen, or a pirate. I'm going have to decide by Friday, because I will be getting my costume.

[summer_gphib]

I think we are going to do the pirates thing this year. Hubby already has a very cool pirates costume I made him several years ago, and I can make Forrest the basset hound and myself pirate costumes.... it should be pretty funny. Although I thought about making Forrest the treasure chest. *lol* He would be so cute. But I think his own pirate costume would be better.

[scbelle]

I wish I were more "homemakerish" so I could make my own costumes... I've been browsing online and can only find "hoochie-pirate" or "slutty-princess"... does anyone know of a place I could find a respectable costume?

[summer_gphib]

Making a costume isn't that hard. Here's how I made Adam's pirate costume (still haven't started mine and Forrest's yet.)

We were very, very low budget at the time, so I did it with virtually no money.

I took a pair of old khaki pants and rolled them up to the capri level. Then I took socks, and with a red sharpie, made stripes on them. I took a thin white t-shirt and put holes in it, and used make-up to stain it up. I did buy a yard of cheap fabric from the store and tied it around his waist. Added some a few gold chains, a cheap eye patch, and a bandana. He wore shoes he already had. I did some make-up work on him, and spent some time on that, and I blackened his teeth with eyeliner. Here's a pic....(He won 2nd place)




The next year we did a redneck costume. We found a hideous hat, I think we used the same pants, and made our own camoflauge t-shirt with food coloring. Again I blackened out the teeth and did make-up to roughen him up. *lol* He won first place, if I remember correctly.