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⌈ Secret Post #5401 ⌋

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What are the Halloween costumes you liked the most or were proudest of?

Or what costume ideas have you always wanted to try out, but haven’t yet?

My best costume was Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction. Black wig, tight black pants, white dress shirt, and a prop syringe that looked like it was sticking out of my chest.

It was low tech (just anchored to a piece of cardboard that was tucked into my bra) but I was so damn pleased with that.

Pretty nifty! I love a good DIY costume solution.

I love this!

Three very young kids dressed as Walt, Jesse, and Saul from Breaking Bad. A very impressive Darth Vader (dude was tall and big and had the breathing thing, it was cool af lol) with a toddler Kylo Ren. The homemade witch costume I had as a girl (I won Best Witch at my school's costume contest lol).

Ah, I love surprisingly adorable costumes of menacing characters

And belated congrats on Best Witch

My s/o and I did Bill and Ted (of WYLD STALLYNS fame) one year - that was freaking hilarious. And surprisingly tough - I had to pin down all the little details like the print on Bill's button-down shirt, and what all the patches on Ted's shorts are... We went to a karaoke bar and sang "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" as a duet; my brother and a bunch of our friends were there too and I kept air-guitaring next to the stage while they were up, and they were dressed as like a pirate and a monk and such, so we got pictures with "historical figures". XD

That same year, while s/o was at work, I had nothing to do during the day and was impatient to get into a costume, so scrounged up a random "autumn wood nymph" costume from ren faire garb and cosplay pieces and floral garlands and such. It was such a success that a couple weeks later I recreated it and went out to a woodsy area with my photographer sis-in-law to take actual PRO photos of it, and THOSE came out so well I decided to do a version for all the seasons, swapping out colors and types of floral garlands, and matching colored streaks in the green wig. It went over pretty well at cons even, though it's an original design and basically closet cosplay.

Also fairly proud of my Morticia Addams, and mildly annoyed that a friend chickened out of being my Gomez that year. Still want to take that to karaoke if I can ever sing again, and do "Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers. :D

This all sounds fantastic. I love the idea of seasonal nymphs. And while doing karaoke terrifies me, I would love to be an audience member at any of those performances.

Hahah, I concede that I am a total ham. Don't have a great voice, but I can stay in tune and I like to perform, and so I just kind of hope the performance (and often "wtf that tiny little frail girl is going to sing System of a Down?") makes up for a mediocre voice. :D

cool. I was Morticia one year too and won a prize for it.

Sweet! I just wore mine to hand out candy so my only prize was the discovery that at least some of the neighborhood kids are familiar with the classics, because they recognized me. :D

I've always adored Halloween, celebrating every year with decorations and buying lots of pumpkin and bat related goodies and ooooh I love haunted houses and masquerade-type parties, but I was never big on actually dressing up myself. I think it's in part because I've never been able to wear makeup of any kind due to my sensitive skin and I'm eird about wearing things on my head in general. IDK, it's almost like a claustrophobic feeling, if I had to describe it?

It'd be so cute to dress up as a satyr kind of thing though if I ever get over it. Krampus is forever cool so maybe it'd be more towards Christmas but yeah.

I definitely get the physical discomfort. I used to be able to wear wigs and corsets/wings/headgear and such, but I can't stand it these days.

But decorations are equally awesome. I usually don't have the motivation or aesthetic sense to do it myself, but I love seeing what other people do with their homes. Maybe I'll manage to rustle up some pumpkins and window silhouettes this year.

as a fulltime cosplayer and professional cosplay maker, I don't go all-in on Halloween. sometimes I barely go half-assed. full disclosure.

since we bought a house our Halloweens have been themed, regardless of whether we're hosting a party. We've done Addam's Family, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Nightmare Before Christmas, and a few others, so if we're hosting a party I have to have a costume that goes with the theme. I managed to make my own checked shirt for Adam from Beetlejuice and it was right, but hardly anyone noticed. If I'm proud of anything, it's that I found the exact poncho Giles wore in one of the Buffy Halloween episodes for our Buffy theme, even if I didn't look at all like Giles. I needed the sombrero but couldn't get one in time. And the kids in our neighborhood don't know Buffy lmao.

we don't have a theme this year and it's almost too late to even decorate. we're not having a party. I just don't fuckin care anymore, I've blown my load on other people's costumes and don't have energy for my own now.

Not op

What you do sounds really cool, but it bums me out that you don't have enough energy for your own costumes :/

I'll say, i love that you have themed Halloweens! I always dress up for Halloween (the laziest I did was a lizard lady which basically amounted to me smearing gold/green make up around my eyes and cheeks while wearing a black dress with a white turtle neck lol i was kinda not up for partying that year) even if I'm just going from work to my home.

Lol at your Buffy reference because the minute you said poncho it popped in my head

Themes sound very cool, I would love to go to a themed Halloween party. Especially since you're clearly picking some excellent ones.

And I love that you did a Giles-at-Halloween costume, even if you didn't have an appreciative audience!

I had a FANTASTIC Crowley Good Omens once but the party I went to, absolutely no one else there had seen TV Omens. I got so many details, incorporated my snakeskin print boots and did the little 'tattoo' and so on and so forth...

My Tina Belcher was a success in part because we ate at a restaurant where the booths and walls were as such that I could get photos framed to look like I was in Bob's Burgers, even though the costume itself was pretty basic beyond the wig.

In high school I did a really good Dana Scully, had a little badge made up and a suit and someone who agreed to do Mulder.

One I really want to do but have never done (yet) is Eddie from RHPS.

Damn, I would love to see that Crowley! It sounds very impressive. And Scully sounds great.

Eddie would be a very cool costume. I feel like it might even work for people who didn't recognize what it was referencing. I mean, Frankenstein monster/zombie in 70s fashion is a cool Halloween look, even without the context.

I've always wanted to do Columbia but I don't have the legs for it.

My favorite costumes that I wore:

1) The fourth Doctor from "Doctor Who". I curled my brown hair with mousse, sculpted my features with an extremely mild amount of matte eyeshadow, and even knit my own scarf. I was fortunate enough to score a perfect duplicate of his umbrella. The really crazy thing about wearing this getup was that i knew this girl who was a virtual clone of Sarah Jane Smith. She jumped sky high when I scared her in the library while wearing the outfit. Good times. (Not to mention that I had a substitute teacher who was a doppelgänger for the second Romana/Princess Astra... no, I wasn't hallucinating!)

2) I was in a high school skit themed as "gangster version of a scene from Shakespeare". I reused the fourth Doctor fedora for that one. Fun.

3) I was a stuffed pumpkin for a kindergarten Halloween party. My mom made it with me.

4) A Native American girl

5) A cat. I used a heavy paper mâché mask for that one.

SA

6) My family went to a Renaissance fair where there was a photographer who had pleasant costumes and props to wear for picture talking. Best family portrait ever. I was such a happy princess!

Heh that reminds me of the time my mom and her best friend and friend's daughter and I did one of those costume photoshoots where the photographer provided the costumes.

I was fucking furious that they all got to dress as pretty princesses and I got stuck with the stupid wizard outfit. I was maybe eight and it was cis girl me's first time being misgendered. If I could've turned him into a frog with the prop wand I would've, and it absolutely showed in my expression.

I still love ott frilly fancy dresses, but if I could pull off a better made version of the wizard getup I wouldn't mind dressing as one now.

Re: Your best Halloween costumes

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Re: Your best Halloween costumes

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My very best was either Darth Vader or Bellatrix Lestrange. My favorite as a kid was Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, I went as him 7 years I think.

I really want to do LOTR movie or Tolkien book costumes, but I need to lose a lot of weight before I'd feel comfortable doing that.

A good Darth Vader and Bellatrix Lestrange sounds like quite the accomplishment!

And I empathize re: weight and feeling comfortable in costumes. I've put on a lot of weight in the last year and wouldn't feel comfortable doing many of the things I've thought up in the past. I guess I'll have to either get over it or find a new costume idea.

Re: the weight thing--dress as a hobbit!

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