Halloween Costumes

Shanazel · 09-22-2006, 07:36 PM

Halloween is just around the corner. What is the best costume you've ever worn or ever seen?

My husband once found a papier mache tyranosaurus rex head at a garage sale. He bought it for a quarter, spent another fifty cents on a set of insulated long underwear, and painted or dyed them all green, along with socks and gloves to cover his feet and hands. He called his mom and asked her to send him the large artificial eyes he used for his taxidermy course in high school. She could only find one, so she sent it and he attached it to the TyRex head along with a black patchand headband to stand in for the missing eye. He put on the costume and announced he was Moshe Dyanasaur (if you are too young to remember Moshe Dyan of Israel, you'll miss the joke, sorry). He went to the Buckhorn Bar dressed like this, and the guy at the door asked to see his identification. My hisband said, "Don't be ridiculous: I'm 350 million years old." They let him in.

Moon · 09-22-2006, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Shanazel

He went to the Buckhorn Bar dressed like this, and the guy at the door asked to see his identification. My hisband said, "Don't be ridiculous: I'm 350 million years old." They let him in.

I'm from the Netherlands, we don;t celebrate helloween (although I think it's gaining popularity now, but I think I'm to old to ask people for candy :p)
My best friend is from America. I've never seen him in a costume, but he decorates his room with fake spiders and cute little ghosts.
By mistake, I discovered a nice way to make fake cobweb. My friend has a cotton candy machine and if you leave it on but you are not making the candy fast enough, the sugar strands will "escape" from the machine and if the machine is too close to the curtains... well you can imagine...

The best costume I've ever seen? Hm, it was on tv. A quite realistic looking tyrannosaurus rex (spelling?) costume which fell apart when the persons wearing it tried to walk

AliPies · 09-22-2006, 09:03 PM

The silliest costume I ever saw was made by my friend Michelle, she didn't have a costume, but decided she wanted to dress up so she wore all black clothes and safety pinned receipts and and other small items to her clothes so she could look like the inside of her purse! It was really cool.

Shanazel · 09-23-2006, 02:10 AM

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I'm from the Netherlands, we don;t celebrate helloween (although I think it's gaining popularity now, but I think I'm to old to ask people for candy :p)

I adore Halloween, though I haven't asked people for treats in years. I just steal them from my children

. Of course, in Wyoming, we can always expect a major winter storm on Halloween night, so we have to plan childrens' costumes to fit over snowsuits. You have not lived until you see a ballerina tutu stretched over a snowsuit... I cannot tell you the number of blizzards I have stomped through to take my kids trick or treating. They have both outgrown trick or treating now, and I live out in the country on a dirt road with no street lights, so I don't get little ghosts and goblins at my door. Alas.

Moon · 09-23-2006, 07:53 AM

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and I live out in the country on a dirt road with no street lights, so I don't get little ghosts and goblins at my door. Alas.

What a pity. It sounds as a good "scary house" to go to on Halloween

Shanazel · 09-23-2006, 05:41 PM

Nah, 'fraid not. No creaking doors, no clanking chains, no eery moans (unless we happen to have a stray cat in heat somewhere.) Just a house on a hill with a bunch of trees. We do, however, have a black cat named Edgar Allen Cat. Our other black cat died the first of June at the age of 18 years. Alas. Now we are down to only seven kitties and two dogs, though they shed enough hair between them to make a new cat every week or so.

tim'ema · 09-24-2006, 07:35 AM

I'm a Halloween costume FREAK! Well - - -I really really love it!

I have many costumes and I try and make a new one each second or third Halloween. The in-between years I just rewear one from my collection or modify an older one.

I have a Star Trek The Next Generation costume, Cowgirl, Medieval Lady, Movie Theatre Usherette...and I like to really do it up - proper makeup and hairstyles - stature and body language, etc.

Last year my sweetie and I went out as a Victorian couple. He slicked his hair down, wore a tux with tails, pocket watch, white gloves and spats. Even a silver cane with a crystal (well, glass!) knob. I had a Victorian "bustle dress". Deep blue with burgundy and black passementrie. This is the style:

complete with a little hat with flowers and feathers.
I have to say, we looked great! We went out to dinner at a local hotel with my brother and his wife - they were dressed as a Medieval couple!

The year before that it was Anthony and Cleopatra! My sweetie made his own costume - cutting up a leather jacket from the thrift store and hammering a piece of aluminum into a custom breastplate! I tried beading for the first time and made an Egyptian beaded collar and constructed a braided wig!

Halloween is a TON of work - but I LOVE it!(gee, can ya tell?)
Any ideas about what I could be this year? whatever it is, I would need a complimentary costume for my sweetie, and I would have to wear my costume to work (so nothing scary or sexy/revealing).

AT

Shanazel · 09-24-2006, 10:00 PM

At one of our halloween parties, a couple of friends came dressed as a bride and groom. She wore white tie, and he wore a formal white dress accesssorized by a full black beard and a "pregnant" tummy. It was hysterical.

I always have had a secret naughty yen to go to a Halloween party with my husband dressed as M&Ms (a kind of American sweet). He would be an M&M with nuts and I would be an M&M without...

For work, I have a set of cat ears. Would you believe I wore them all day one time and only one of the attorneys even noticed? She wanted to know where she could get some.

Mair · 09-24-2006, 11:53 PM

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I always have had a secret naughty yen to go to a Halloween party with my husband dressed as M&Ms (a kind of American sweet). He would be an M&M with nuts and I would be an M&M without...

One of my friends who's been known (not so much anymore) to be very conservative and rather straight-laced (always kept his hair short, dressed very neatly, spoke rather formally) shocked us all when he showed up at a Halloween party dressed as a hooker. :eek: :p

Angelofdance · 09-25-2006, 12:02 AM

MOON! NOOOOO! I'm living in the Netherlands (5 months in total) and I'll MISS Halloween!???? How could I have overlooked this??? Us students will have to do something at the guesthouse...oh goodnes...no Halloween?? Ahh!

iris *hyperventilates*

09-22-2006, 07:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,563	Halloween Costumes Halloween is just around the corner. What is the best costume you've ever worn or ever seen? My husband once found a papier mache tyranosaurus rex head at a garage sale. He bought it for a quarter, spent another fifty cents on a set of insulated long underwear, and painted or dyed them all green, along with socks and gloves to cover his feet and hands. He called his mom and asked her to send him the large artificial eyes he used for his taxidermy course in high school. She could only find one, so she sent it and he attached it to the TyRex head along with a black patchand headband to stand in for the missing eye. He put on the costume and announced he was Moshe Dyanasaur (if you are too young to remember Moshe Dyan of Israel, you'll miss the joke, sorry). He went to the Buckhorn Bar dressed like this, and the guy at the door asked to see his identification. My hisband said, "Don't be ridiculous: I'm 350 million years old." They let him in.

09-24-2006, 07:35 AM	#7 (permalink)
tim'ema Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Western Canada Posts: 141	I'm a Halloween costume FREAK! Well - - -I really really love it! I have many costumes and I try and make a new one each second or third Halloween. The in-between years I just rewear one from my collection or modify an older one. I have a Star Trek The Next Generation costume, Cowgirl, Medieval Lady, Movie Theatre Usherette...and I like to really do it up - proper makeup and hairstyles - stature and body language, etc. Last year my sweetie and I went out as a Victorian couple. He slicked his hair down, wore a tux with tails, pocket watch, white gloves and spats. Even a silver cane with a crystal (well, glass!) knob. I had a Victorian "bustle dress". Deep blue with burgundy and black passementrie. This is the style: complete with a little hat with flowers and feathers. I have to say, we looked great! We went out to dinner at a local hotel with my brother and his wife - they were dressed as a Medieval couple! The year before that it was Anthony and Cleopatra! My sweetie made his own costume - cutting up a leather jacket from the thrift store and hammering a piece of aluminum into a custom breastplate! I tried beading for the first time and made an Egyptian beaded collar and constructed a braided wig! Halloween is a TON of work - but I LOVE it!(gee, can ya tell?) Any ideas about what I could be this year? whatever it is, I would need a complimentary costume for my sweetie, and I would have to wear my costume to work (so nothing scary or sexy/revealing). AT __________________ My FructMal site My Blog

09-22-2006, 09:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
AliPies Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago, Illinois Posts: 45	The silliest costume I ever saw was made by my friend Michelle, she didn't have a costume, but decided she wanted to dress up so she wore all black clothes and safety pinned receipts and and other small items to her clothes so she could look like the inside of her purse! It was really cool.

09-23-2006, 05:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,563	Nah, 'fraid not. No creaking doors, no clanking chains, no eery moans (unless we happen to have a stray cat in heat somewhere.) Just a house on a hill with a bunch of trees. We do, however, have a black cat named Edgar Allen Cat. Our other black cat died the first of June at the age of 18 years. Alas. Now we are down to only seven kitties and two dogs, though they shed enough hair between them to make a new cat every week or so.

09-24-2006, 10:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,563	At one of our halloween parties, a couple of friends came dressed as a bride and groom. She wore white tie, and he wore a formal white dress accesssorized by a full black beard and a "pregnant" tummy. It was hysterical. I always have had a secret naughty yen to go to a Halloween party with my husband dressed as M&Ms (a kind of American sweet). He would be an M&M with nuts and I would be an M&M without... For work, I have a set of cat ears. Would you believe I wore them all day one time and only one of the attorneys even noticed? She wanted to know where she could get some.

09-25-2006, 12:02 AM	#10 (permalink)
Angelofdance Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 20	MOON! NOOOOO! I'm living in the Netherlands (5 months in total) and I'll MISS Halloween!???? How could I have overlooked this??? Us students will have to do something at the guesthouse...oh goodnes...no Halloween?? Ahh! iris hyperventilates