What Are You Going As For Halloween?? (costumes, the best, woman)

[Leana76]

I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW... I'm way early for this thread. But I'd thought it'll be fun!!

I'm thinking of going as a Hee Haw Honey (you know, from the show Hee Haw?). My hair will be longer then and I could put it in 2 pigtails, wear a gingham type button shirt (tie it near the stomach), and just look like an innocent country girl. That will be fun!

So, if you know already (or still thinking about it already), what you going as??

[poconoproud]

I searched the world over, and thought I found true love,
you found another ...and


you was gone.....I used to love Hee-Haw!

I thought my kids asked too early about halloween! Maybe I'll go as a ....

[RDSLOTS]

Same thing I am every year -- just because I am SO good at it! A witch.

I have a nose that my two younger sisters tease me about, calling it a bird beak because it is p-o-i-n-t-y (aristocratic, I correct them), and I can cackle with the best of Shakespeare's "weird sisters."

I do put my own little special twist on the costume every year, however. When I was teaching, I had a few buttons pinned to my witch's hat: one that read 'ghoul friend' and another, 'for this I spent all those years in college?' One year, I had some sort of district-wide meeting to go to after school, and couldn't afford to look any more like a nut than what I normally do, so I put on my normal face (make-up-wise), and wore a black knife-pleated skirt with an orange T, and a sweater with a Jack o' lantern embroidered on it (and ghost buttons, no less!). I wore my regular calf-high, lace-up witch boots, with orange and black striped tights, and carried my broom, err. . . witches' preferred mode of transportation. And, wore my very pointed witches' hat (only the point flops over, ever-so-fashionably.)

One of the kids coming down the hall, stopped me to ask, "What are you, Mrs. M?"

Now, what do you think I was? Were you brighter than the student?

A 'preppy witch.'

[findinghope]

oh i love being a witch too. last year my witch costume was a black dress and short granny like sweater, with orange striped tights, pointed balck shoes and a pointed hat complete with veil and spiders--lol
i like to try and match with my son and hubby, but i couldnt find a pirate costume
i will try again this year to find something for all of us.
my son's first halloween, my mom bought him a cow costume, so hubby and i dressed as farmers...

[115db]

Its still a few months away so really, will have to wait and see if we're allowed to dress up that day.

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Livewire

Its still a few months away so really, will have to wait and see if we're allowed to dress up that day.

Uh.. Livewire, I'm sure they're going to allow you to "dress up".. Unless you wanna go there dressed in your "Birthday suit"! If that's the case, I'll be doing a lot of shopping at the Lowe's you work at on Halloween!

LOL.. Sorry... I couldn't resist!

[Racelady88]

Never too early to be thinking about Halloween costumes. I have a costume part to attend every year. We make our own costumes, and sometimes they can be a little involved.

Last year I was a southern belle. Previous years I have been Dorothy, Tinkerbell, cave woman, medieval serving wench, Pochahantas, and a witch. Husband always has a costume to "go with" mine.

I was thinking we might go as garden gnomes this year, but he hates that idea. We have friends who go to the party with us and I suggested The Scooby Doo Gang, but nobody liked that either. Maybe we will do Cleopatra & Julius Caesar.

[poconoproud]

[RDSLOTS]

You know, after giving this some careful thought, I may just go as myself and scare everybody I know.


Racelady, friends of ours won a costume contest last year with fairly simple ones the wife made. They went as M&Ms -- she was plain, he, with peanuts.

And instead of going as Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, consider going as the 'ghosts' of the characters. One of the most effective costumes I've seen in years. Instead of going in-the-flesh, so to speak, the couple painted themselves with white, nontoxic baby-shoe polish, and then applied slightly 'ghoulish-look' makeup around the eyes, on the hands etc. Caesar wore a wilted laurel wreath, her headdress a tad tarnished and worn, and their robes were a bit tattered and grey. It was a fantastic take on Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

It would work great for about any other costumed couple too -- Hiawatha and Pocahontas, Marie Antoinette and ole Louis. You could probably very easily re-do or re-think costumes you already have. The 'ghosts of' Rhett Butler and Scarlett would be quite cool.