It's getting to be that time again and I'm looking for this year's great costume idea...The past few years I've been slacking and going as a vampire (in various forms) or princesses or queens (LOL cause I can wear the same dresses... :D) but I want to do something different and really extreme without spending too much money. Any serious ideas and sites are welcome! :D Thanks...
2006-07-18 19:25:49 · 42 answers · asked by Jade Orchid 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
The best one I ever saw was a friend who dressed as Tippy Hedrens character from "The Birds". She wore a Chanel style suit and a pillbox hat (both from Goodwill), and then glued fake birds (from a floral supply) all over her face, hat, chest and shoulders, and put fake blood where their beaks touched her skin. She put small tears (peck marks) in a few places on the suit, and put blood coming out of the holes. She won the best costume award that year.
I also saw a couple dressed as Death and Taxes once a long time ago- everyone thought it was hilarious. He dressed as the grim reaper in a black, hooded cape/robe type thing and carried a cardboard scythe (sp?). She dressed as a 1040 form, but I don't remember the exact details- I think she just made a huge copy or scan of the form (tiled on the copier/printer) and glued it to a big cardboard box that she wore over black tights and top.
hope this helped
2006-07-18 21:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This will take a supreme amount of effort on your part but bear with me; go into your favorite thrift shop or costume shop and force yourself to look at things that you DON'T like, characters you would never consider being and become that character. In other words force yourself out of the same old dresses, the same old disguises, and guess what, it will truly become a costume because it will be something utterly unlike you. Trust me, this can work. Have fun, PS - - entrust a friend to put together an outfit for you, put trust in them, make it clear you want to be different and let them work their magic. Peace/
2006-07-19 23:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made the cutest costume for my son when he was a teenager.
I made him a pink tutu, and he work the tutu with a white shirt and tie and overcoat, and carried a wand and a machine gun -
he was a "Fairy Godfather". It was really funny watching people's faces trying to figure that one out.
Box of cereal with a knife through it and fake blood stuck on the front of a sweatshirt - be a
cereal (serial) killer. Get a rainbow wig - stick a john 3:16 sign on your chest and go as rainbow head (every sports event).
Put on black sweat shirt and pants and get yellow duct tape and make horizontal stripes, stick on a head band with antennae and go as a bee. Add a gun and you can be a killer bee. Add a crown and you can be the queen bee. Add letters all over and you can be a spelling bee. Add a ghost and you can be a boobee.
2006-07-21 15:23:33 · answer #3 · answered by Karla R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dressed as a lady pirate once and that was a great costume. Plus I really loaded my extra features for one night--just because I could. That was so fun. But I always wanted to dress in one of those sexy little maid outfits.
2006-07-18 19:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by just julie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right this is a few concepts: bo-peep a fairy a marionette doll (with the pink circle cheeks, curled hair, a flouncy gown, superb eyelashes and strings linked of direction) a fb/myspace internet site (use cardboard) somebody from a undeniable term 50s,60s,70s,80s(very relaxing!) or from medieval/rennaissance usually generally happening fictional charachter or a fairytale character-Rapunzel, etc. This one is particularly cheesy yet one among you may desire to string small ceral packing containers on a touch rope then stick forks with the aid of the packing containers and placed on it around your neck (subsequently THE CEREAL Killer)get it?? Yeah which you would be able to desire to be to "gay" for you (because 13yr olds who do matching costumes are) yet its purely a guideline.
2016-11-02 08:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by belschner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just wear black clothes and look as pale as possible. Simple yet effective. Plus add eye make-up like Gene Simmons of Kiss or Brandon Lee of The Crow.
2006-07-18 19:31:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One time I had a party, and a girl came dressed in long underwear that was dyed orange. she then took strands of orange yarn, about 4 feet long, and randomly tacked one end to the suit, allowing the loose end to dangle. She glued pumpkin seeds to the ends, and called herself "Pumpkin Guts"
I once went to a bargain store, and bought a wedding dress for under $20 and spray painted it black, & went as the bride of Frankenstein.
You could stuff garden gloves with cotton batting, and tack them to a shirt & call yourself an "arms salesman"
You could paint your face red, and wear all red clothes with a brown or white jacket over it and be a hot dog.
I've seen the cereal/serial killer one before -- but instead of one box, they used the little single serving boxes, and had plastic knives protruding out of each box, all over a sweatshirt.
Happy Haunting!
2006-07-21 18:15:30 · answer #7 · answered by amuse4you 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My friend won a prize for her costume as that Chick from Titanic...she wore a long gown, a life jacket and whistle...had a white life preserver ring that said SS TITANIC
and she wore eyelashes that looked like they were frosty white---she was cold in the water, remember? Good Luck
2006-07-19 01:48:01 · answer #8 · answered by helpmemama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a paper sack cut out eye holes and mouth holes, rol the sack until it touches the shoulder,it some raggy clothes, old beat up shoes, and go as a bag person
2006-07-19 03:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by union_lonely_girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had some leftover floor lineoleum, and I turned it into the queen of hearts. My ex-husband was the king. It was really cool. But you ought to be a lady pirate...arrrrgh!
2006-07-19 07:30:21 · answer #10 · answered by busy_kona_b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋