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Who can/does put together halloween costumes from things around the house?
what is the costume and how do you acheive it?
what is the costume and how do you acheive it?
No buy Halloween Costumes
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Boxes... they make great dice, robots, refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers, cars, trucks, spaceships, christmas presents, rubick's cubes, dressers, you name it... just add paint...
sheets... ghosts, of course... roman togas...
large clear plastic bag and leftover birthday balloons... blow them up, put them in the bag with arms and leg holes... now you're a gumball machine... or a bag of jellybeans...
hawaiian shirt, sandles, camera, map in your pocket... you're a tourist...
sheets... ghosts, of course... roman togas...
large clear plastic bag and leftover birthday balloons... blow them up, put them in the bag with arms and leg holes... now you're a gumball machine... or a bag of jellybeans...
hawaiian shirt, sandles, camera, map in your pocket... you're a tourist...
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TxRad said:Nude with a pair of roller skates on and I become and instant "pull me" toy....
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White sheet, black belt, piece of cardboard, small cardboard box. string, paint/markers.
Cut a hole in the sheet so you can place it over your body like a pancho. Belt it. Cut out a sword, paint it, stick it in the belt. On a big square of cardboard, paint it white, then a red cross on it. cut holes in the four corners and make a big loop to go arond your neck with the string. At the bottom, use two pieces you can tie behind your back like a bikini top.Take the box, Cur eye holes and brathing slits. paint & decorate to taste.
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Cut a hole in the sheet so you can place it over your body like a pancho. Belt it. Cut out a sword, paint it, stick it in the belt. On a big square of cardboard, paint it white, then a red cross on it. cut holes in the four corners and make a big loop to go arond your neck with the string. At the bottom, use two pieces you can tie behind your back like a bikini top.Take the box, Cur eye holes and brathing slits. paint & decorate to taste.
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We had bamboo strainers, round basket things on long handles. Paint the bottoms of the round parts red and attach them to the face. Now you have a fly's eyes and a pair of antennae. The ones we used were a good four-five inches across. The eyes were big and covered the features. The rest of the fly was done with gray, black and brown cloth and horizontal bandings of black fake fur. Wings were cut out of a plastic dropcloth and painted with veins.
We had bamboo strainers, round basket things on long handles. Paint the bottoms of the round parts red and attach them to the face. Now you have a fly's eyes and a pair of antennae. The ones we used were a good four-five inches across. The eyes were big and covered the features. The rest of the fly was done with gray, black and brown cloth and horizontal bandings of black fake fur. Wings were cut out of a plastic dropcloth and painted with veins.
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Instant Sort-of Geisha
Satin-looking robe, narrow length of fabric (long enough to wrap around your waist a couple of times as an obe), hair combs (hot-glue old showy earrings and such to them), flip-flops, white powder for face, black eyeliner and red lipstick – instant sorta-Geisha.
Satin-looking robe, narrow length of fabric (long enough to wrap around your waist a couple of times as an obe), hair combs (hot-glue old showy earrings and such to them), flip-flops, white powder for face, black eyeliner and red lipstick – instant sorta-Geisha.
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"Scarecrow" is pretty easy if you have some old clothes, newspaper to stuff them into a lumpy shape, and a handful or two of straw to stick out the wrists and button holes. If you're feeling flush, use a little black greasepaint to make your eyes into triangles or anything that looks painted on.
"Hobo" was one my parents used when we were kids. Ratty clothes, slouchy hat if you can find one, hunk of corncob (cleaned and dried) on a stick for a pipe, and a beard made by smearing the skin with a little Vaseline and dusting it with tea leaves.
Dressing a boy as a girl or a girl in her brother's football gear often works, but can backfire. Evidently my eldest uncle once went as a girl, with the help of his three sisters who dolled him up with their makeup and hid his short hair by clipping curlers all over it. When he arrived at one house, the woman who answered the door said, "Oh, you poor dear! You didn't have a costume!" and gave him extra candy. He was most chagrined.
My sibling and I got good milage out of our father's old army fatigues. Add a toy gun and you're a soldier.
"Robot" tends to be fairly easy too - just some plain dark clothing with a cardboard "panel" hung on the front with as many interesting buttons, screens, and gears as you can draw. Gluing on tin foil and whatnots from a tool bench helps. You can add an oil can in a holster too.
Oh yes - and I've seen several women get good mileage out of an old bridesmaid's gown by adding a wand. Instant fairy godmother.
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"Hobo" was one my parents used when we were kids. Ratty clothes, slouchy hat if you can find one, hunk of corncob (cleaned and dried) on a stick for a pipe, and a beard made by smearing the skin with a little Vaseline and dusting it with tea leaves.
Dressing a boy as a girl or a girl in her brother's football gear often works, but can backfire. Evidently my eldest uncle once went as a girl, with the help of his three sisters who dolled him up with their makeup and hid his short hair by clipping curlers all over it. When he arrived at one house, the woman who answered the door said, "Oh, you poor dear! You didn't have a costume!" and gave him extra candy. He was most chagrined.
My sibling and I got good milage out of our father's old army fatigues. Add a toy gun and you're a soldier.
"Robot" tends to be fairly easy too - just some plain dark clothing with a cardboard "panel" hung on the front with as many interesting buttons, screens, and gears as you can draw. Gluing on tin foil and whatnots from a tool bench helps. You can add an oil can in a holster too.
Oh yes - and I've seen several women get good mileage out of an old bridesmaid's gown by adding a wand. Instant fairy godmother.
Shanglan
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yui said:Instant Sort-of Geisha
Satin-looking robe, narrow length of fabric (long enough to wrap around your waist a couple of times as an obe), hair combs (hot-glue old showy earrings and such to them), flip-flops, white powder for face, black eyeliner and red lipstick – instant sorta-Geisha.
Seeing Yui and Geisha in the same post is almost more than I can take....hubba hubba....
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One year I was a black cat. I happened to have these striped black and white and grey tights. I put those on and these short shorts (you couldn't see the shorts under the rest) and attached the tail. Then I wore a long button up gold lame shirt with a colar and a black tie. I got a headband with kitty ears (that was made for a kid and didn't want to stay on) and wore that. I had blonde hair at the time, and it looked great. Anyway, I drew on a cat nose and lines to my lips (painted red) and wiskers, and played up my eyes and lashes trying to use liner to elongate my eyes more like a cats. Black heals for shoes and optional black gloves. Voila!
sexy kitty.
All the boys loved the tail.
sexy kitty.
All the boys loved the tail.
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The_Fool said:
I usually wear a black dress (sexy or otherwise- as the mood strikes) black nylons (or fishnets one year) backcomb my hair and do my make-up kinda goth. Add a broom and optional pointy hat- all set. In the end, the broom is hard to carry and the hat flies off ever two seconds so it's better just to leave them off.
When I was a kid, I wanted a real black cat just to have it follow after me on Halloween.
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sweetnpetite said:I usually wear a black dress (sexy or otherwise- as the mood strikes) black nylons (or fishnets one year) backcomb my hair and do my make-up kinda goth. Add a broom and optional pointy hat- all set. In the end, the broom is hard to carry and the hat flies off ever two seconds so it's better just to leave them off.
When I was a kid, I wanted a real black cat just to have it follow after me on Halloween.
Thigh highs are good. You can tuck your love potions inside them.....
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The_Fool said:
I like that idea. Thanks.
Course, you can use wide fishnets as a verital bulatin board!
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I never thought about it before, but I don't think I've ever worn a store bought costume in my life. My mother made them all when I was a kid and I threw them together later. My favorite - flasher. Trench coat over bikini top and cut offs. I got a lot of extra candy and a lot of dirty looks depending on who came to the door. Then again, when you stop for cigarette breaks while trick-or-treating you're prolly too old to be doing so....
Then again, when you stop for cigarette breaks while trick-or-treating you're prolly too old to be doing so....
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minsue said:I never thought about it before, but I don't think I've ever worn a store bought costume in my life. My mother made them all when I was a kid and I threw them together later. My favorite - flasher. Trench coat over bikini top and cut offs. I got a lot of extra candy and a lot of dirty looks depending on who came to the door.
LOL, I love it.
I've read that theres been a trend of adults trick or treating. Our generation grew up with it and doesn't want to give it up. At least I'm not the only one!
(course, everyone thinks I'm a kid anyway)
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Come. Sit down. I will strum my biwa and feed you warm rice wine.The_Fool said:Seeing Yui and Geisha in the same post is almost more than I can take....hubba hubba....
If you will come as a flasher, my address is 625 Sweet Springs Road.minsue said:I never thought about it before, but I don't think I've ever worn a store bought costume in my life. My mother made them all when I was a kid and I threw them together later. My favorite - flasher. Trench coat over bikini top and cut offs. I got a lot of extra candy and a lot of dirty looks depending on who came to the door.
We could drink beer and smoke your ciggies.
I'll leave a light on for you.
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sweetnpetite said:
I don't trick or treat, but we do have friends who have a costume party every year - not on Halloween, usually, which I appreciate. That means that I get to dress up twice - once for the party, and once to hand out candy to the charming children who inhabit our estate. The SO and I always dress, and the dogs sometimes do as well. Two years ago Big Girl was Hairy Potter with a litte wizard hat and her own pumpkin - very neatly carved by biting the front half of it off.
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I've been a vampire (long black coat, boots, heavy belt, jeans, black t-shirt and red shirt over for the Spike ensemble with teeth and blood drip). I've also been an Agent from the Matrix (suit, tie-pin, gun and shoulder-holster, earpiece made from old headphones), Leonard Shelby from Memento (that one was fun - beige suit, blue shirt, old camera and photos of all of my mates in the left hand pocket with stuff scribbled on the back).
This year, I'm going as a Wicked Witch - black hat, cloak and clothes, hooked and warted nose, with fake gold bling all over. Kinda a meta-reference there.
I've never bought a costume; just a couple of the extraneous pieces, like holsters and teeth.
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This year, I'm going as a Wicked Witch - black hat, cloak and clothes, hooked and warted nose, with fake gold bling all over. Kinda a meta-reference there.
I've never bought a costume; just a couple of the extraneous pieces, like holsters and teeth.
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Listen carefully, because this is really cool.
Get a piece of styrofoam packing material or some doubled-over cardboard or a cardboard box that'll fit in the shoulder of a big man's sport coat or jacket. You dress that in a turtleneck or teeshist and then put the jacket over it and that goes on the top of your head so that the shoulders are sitting on the crown of your head. You should be able to see through the turtleneck.
Then you stuff a full-face mask with newspapr or something, shove a stick into it for a neck, and punch that down through the top of the styrofoam.
You're now like 6 or 7 feet tall with a monster mask for a head that you can control by moving the stick, and you still have one arm left for gathering goodies.
If not that, then get a designer sheet and cut eyeholes in it, put a wig over the top, and go as the ghost of Martha Stewart. Or wrap yourself in toilet paper and go as the toilet mummy.
Get a piece of styrofoam packing material or some doubled-over cardboard or a cardboard box that'll fit in the shoulder of a big man's sport coat or jacket. You dress that in a turtleneck or teeshist and then put the jacket over it and that goes on the top of your head so that the shoulders are sitting on the crown of your head. You should be able to see through the turtleneck.
Then you stuff a full-face mask with newspapr or something, shove a stick into it for a neck, and punch that down through the top of the styrofoam.
You're now like 6 or 7 feet tall with a monster mask for a head that you can control by moving the stick, and you still have one arm left for gathering goodies.
If not that, then get a designer sheet and cut eyeholes in it, put a wig over the top, and go as the ghost of Martha Stewart. Or wrap yourself in toilet paper and go as the toilet mummy.
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sweetnpetite said:
It's the thowing up from too much candy corn that I really miss.
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