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Over the years I have made my own costumes. My favs were Raggedy Ann, a clown and crayon. I still have those costumes from back in the day.
More recently, I've worn my father's Air Force flight suit. I've never seen so many zippers in one outfit. He died nearly 20 years ago but I just cannot part with that flight suit. I have his gas mask from WWII but I don't wear it. LOL.
Those all sounded like fantastic costumes. I had no idea Superman was a closet stripper too!
One of the best and most realistic costumes I ever saw was at this biker bar in a Chicago burb. I was standing near the back of the bar and heard this frantic pounding on the rear door. I opened it and there stood this guy. Compound fracture of the lower arm, huge lac across his head, blood gushing from both along with various other injuries. Right about then my inner EMT kicked in and I started to assess his injuries only to find out that it was one hell of a make-up job. Yeah, I was a little red faced for a while.
Needless to say, he won the costume contest. I came in a lowly third place. All black clothing, long straight dark hair and pale make-up with a single crystal tear, I was depression.
A friend of ours dressed up as a pirate. He looked great.......the pants, knee books, eye patch, white shirt, sash belt, the sword but the best part was his hand. He had taken a hay hook bandaged it to his hand, it was all bloody looking he was just like Captain Hook. One of the best adult costumes that I have ever seen.
These stories are great! I never had enough imagination to come up with my own costumes - always went with store-bought. But we had fun anyway!
Creativity comes from economic circumstance.
Besides, my very British grandmother passed her frugal gene down to me. Even though she came from a very well to do family living in London during WW1 changed her outlook on money. I've never regretted my inheritance.
A friend of ours dressed up as a pirate. He looked great.......the pants, knee books, eye patch, white shirt, sash belt, the sword but the best part was his hand. He had taken a hay hook bandaged it to his hand, it was all bloody looking he was just like Captain Hook. One of the best adult costumes that I have ever seen.
Arrrgh!
As an adult, I rarely dressed for Halloween.
One time though, when I lived in an 8-plex, I had these amazing gay neighbors. They found out that I was going to a party but I didn't plan on wearing a costume. That just didn't sit well with them.
Jim and Jim (true!) literally drug me to their apartment and two hours later I emerged as a semi-slutty French maid. The best part was the costume fit under my clothes. When my boyfriend ( who was totally unaware) and I got to the bar (yes, a biker bar) I excused myself and stripped down to my costume . The look on his face was priceless, as was the rest of the night!
Maybe I can get some ideas from you guys. This year I want to dress as The Washington Monument--cracks and all (and maybe a plastic figure repelling from my hat which would of course be the top of the monument).
I was thinking of making this out of cardboard, but I won't be able to sit. Any better ideas?
Maybe I can get some ideas from you guys. This year I want to dress as The Washington Monument--cracks and all (and maybe a plastic figure repelling from my hat which would of course be the top of the monument).
I was thinking of making this out of cardboard, but I won't be able to sit. Any better ideas?
You could always put a hinge where your hiney is!
Or make the lower part out of fabric and use a LOT of starch
Pamela funny you said that...I am going way back to the 70's and I too went to a Halloween party as a bag of jelly beans...I wore a leotard and tights then climbed into a clear trash bag and was filled with colored balloons then tied with a ribbon.
Well by the end of the night almost every single balloon got popped by dancing, people bumping into me and yes a few thought it would be funny to just pop my balloons...I was down to a clear trash bag, all wilted with a bunch of popped and wilted balloons sitting in the bottom and then there was me standing there in a leotard...LOL
Over the years I have made my own costumes. My favs were Raggedy Ann, a clown and crayon. I still have those costumes from back in the day.
When my kids were little I decided to do the same and I made them Raggedy Ann and Andy...It took me weeks to make the costumes and I even took a red rubber ball cut it in half and sewed by hand every piece of yarn to make the wigs. We were so excited for Halloween....well it rained cats and dogs and we were devastated..my neighbor came over and said "I'm taking them out anyway" off they went and probably the only kids out trick or treating and they looked like drowned rag dolls when they got home with their make up running as well as the colors in their costumes.
A couple weeks later I was assigned to sew Pilgrim costumes for the school play. I have not sewn since then.
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