I need costume ideas. I was thinking about getting together some friends and making a giant check for 1,000,000 dollars, a giant camera, balloons, flowers etc and walking around with everyone holding something like that you know? Maybe we could fool some people, but that could be a bit embarassing. Any ideas????
I’m not going trick-or-treating. I’ll probably be going to a party, and besides, trick-or-treating is unbecoming for a senior. However, if I can get away with it, I’m going to school with my face painted with blue whorls like a Celtic woad raider. (For the layperson, that means like the people in Braveheart, although Mel Gibson shouldn’t have done his whole face. He should’ve had a pattern going.) Sure, I might scare some people, but no more than I do on a daily basis.
To whoever asked me why I don’t leave my wallet around for the girl I fancy to find: she’s probably at least five hundred miles away. See, I met her over the summer at this thing I went to called NSLC (National Student Leadership Conference). As I’m feeling rather secure in the anonymity of the Internet once again and I don’t have anyone with doubtful scruples gunning for me this year, I’m going to tell y’all that I think I’m in love with this girl.
NOTE TO ANYONE FROM MY SCHOOL: IF YOU SPREAD THIS AROUND, I WILL FIND YOU. WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE FINDING WILL BE PAINFUL.
My feet hurt and I’m angry at my boss. He deserves it. He also deserves a heaping helping of my unbridled rage, I deserve more than minimum wage for what I put up with, and Karl Rove deserved to have his car shrink-wrapped the other day. Sadly, the third is the only one that has happened so far.
Oh, you tricked me. I thought this was the randomness thread. I’m going to copy and paste everything but the first paragraph into the randomness thread.
I desperately need costume ideas. I have a few, I just need to use the process of elimination and most likely I’ll end up as a dryad (which was what my mom was for my first Hallowe’en) (I was a pumpkin) (My dad was a tree) (I think). Hey! I could be Rhoda! Or what Rhoda would look like were she to dress up in as dryad-ish a costume as she possibly could. And then I’ll call myself “Elderseventh” and wander around switching things. And baffle everybody, especially my little sister. Because I won’t tell her a word. Hmm. Wonder if I can get down to California and maybe find Canix and Stormy and go trick-or-treating with them…
I’ll probably be going trick-or-treating. I think it was last year that I was going to quit, but I couldn’t give it up. I’m not ready to fully renounce my childhood (gosh, now that sounds pretentious), and there wasn’t a party to go to anyway. Plus I’m very small so maybe I can get away with looking like I’m twelve or something. (Not that it’s a big deal; I see teenagers trick-or-treating every Hallowe’en.)
Last Hallowe’en my grandma died. It’s sad, but kind of neat in a way too. Not that she died, but that she died on Hallowe’en.
I spell Hallowe’en with a comma. It’s really pretentious, but also quite fun.
Last year I was an Edwardian lady. Complete with hairstyle that I couldn’t touch for fear it would fall apart and very thin-soled boots through which I could feel the sidewalk and a lot of hairspray. The year before I was a witch. I think . . . I was sort of a cross between the classic witch and Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service. The year before that I was Wendy. It was possibly my worst Hallowe’en costume ever. The year before that I was Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and that was a really good costume, although we went t-o-ting in the boring-est town ever and no one knew who I was because it was so cold I had to bundle up. The year before that I was a princess and my crown kept falling off . . . and before that I was a chick. I dressed up in yellow and I had cardboard wings and a wimple . . . and then I sort of lose track. I know I was a ghost at one point, and possibly a butterfly when I was a toddler, but that might have just been my sister . . .
And that’s that.
My dad has very good stories from when he working in a haunted house, but I always get them mixed up with when he worked in a theater. He has a very interesting past, you know.
I’ll probably go as myself, w/ my friend and her little sister. Or I’ll go locally, and possibly get into shaving cream/ toilet paper madness.
It’s always cold and I’m told to where a coat over my costume.
I think I was myself last year, too… with a witch hat, I think. Boring.
Oh, man! I’m going as an all-out official emokid (no offense to anyone who might be emo…I said all-out)!!! I decided to try out my idea for wrist-scars (lip-liner lines) yesterday, and it worked beautifully!
So, that’s what I’m going to be, and I’m going to go trick-or-treating with a bunch of friends from my theatre group. It’s gonna be a blast!
Ahh, yes. Even though I am a sophomore, I’m still going out. My friend (also a soph) couldn’t go last year because of play rehersal, so she’ll come with me as will another friend. One of my close friends isn’t sure she’s going trick-or-treating.
I’m going to be a crow-girl for Halloween! I decided in June, after reading Someplace to be Flying. I was thinking about being Margeret (a magpie) too, but decided on Zia. My friend might go as Madia with me. I’m embelishing on the discription de Lint gave of them, though, to fit my purposes.
As for the costume, I’m wearing a pair of black capris that are sort of rough-looking, I’ll probably cut the hems a bit and fray them to give more effect and maybe add a few cuts here and there. I also have a long short-sleeved black shirt I’m going to cut a bit along the bottom too. To both of these I will attach feathers (the soft, long, fuzzy kind)
On my arms, I’m going to tie long strips of black material on my wrist, forarm, and just before the elbow. To each of these I will attach a long black-dyed goose feather (or maybe 2), tying them or gluing them to the loose ends of fabric.
Then I’m going to draw designs on the leftover skin, sort of like what Grant was talking about (post 3- nice, by the way) only in black. On my face I might have a sort of crow outline though.
I’m not sure what to do with my hair. I have several ideas, but I don’t know how hard they’d be or if they’d look good.
Idea1: Hair in high ponytail, with bangs (they’re as long as the rest of my hair (about mid-back)) hanging out in front (parted on either side of face) and a black goosefeather tied on to each of them with black embroidery floss. The hair in the pony tail would have a few thin braids in it with thin black feathers woven into the braids (I have those types of feathers already, they’re about 6 inches long and a quarter of an inch wide).
Idea2: Hair down, with lots of braids scatered into it. Woven into some braids would be the long skinny feathers, on some at the end there would be the soft larger feathers, and on some there would be the small feathers I have with black seed beeds strung on them. Then on other braids I would attach some silver charms, like the kind you find on a charm bracelet.
There were other ideas, but I don’t recall them at the moment. I’d probably wear my hair like that to school if I could manage it.
I had a really awesome costume idea. Get a large cardboard box, paint it, take out the bottom, and punch lifesize holes into the top. Put a long bit of carboard on the back, and paint it to say “WHACKAMOLE!” Persuade some friends to dress up as moles or gophers or other such terricolous critters (at least on the upper half of their bodies). Get another friend to dress up as a giant hammer. Voila! A whack-a-mole arcade game.
This is one of those ideas that is really awesome, but will never work in real life.
It’s always cold here for Halloween. There’s usually a decent amount of snow on the ground. So naturally we have to wear ski jackets cuz mom’s all worried about hypothermia and frostbite. Only this year I have this really sweet jacket that isn’t bulky but still keeps out the cold and wind really well.
I’m not going trick or treating this year. Hopefully there will be a party to go to because this is really depressing to me. My mom said she would make a costume though. So… I’m going to be violindino of Pomegranate. That’s myself from the pie war thread.
Past Halloween costumes:
Kindergarten: a pumpkin
First Grade: a black cat
Second Grade: Hermione
Third Grade: a vampire
Fourth Grade: I think I was a vampire again
Fifth Grade: a ghost. I bought a lovely piece of swamp to haunt from my friend who was a real estate agent.
Sixth Grade: a devil
Seventh Grade: a devil again (it was a very cool costume)
Eighth Grade: a dragon tamer
When I was little, my parents dressed me up as a penguin, a cheerleader, and a witch. I don’t remember these, but there’s pictures of me. I look particuarly unhappy in the cheerleader one.
I have no idea what I’m oing as. If I’m going with my little cousins I’m probably going to end up in something like a penguin costume, if I go with my friends, I’m going to try and convince them to do three of the muses with me. Ah yes, and feel fee to steal the Santa on Vacation costume. Fun stuff.
I’m not going, so I’ll be decorating the house. Fake gravestones in the yard (maybe), spooky silhouettes in the windows (probably), fake leg sticking out from under the porch (definitely.) Also, I’ll be dressing up as someone to greet the trick-or-treaters. Ideas?
eh, i’ll probably go to a party again. i’ve never been particularly good at making costumes…most of them were thrown together at the last minute anyway. i might wear a cape or a funny hat or something
Kindergarten: black widdow spider (my bro was a poisonous lizard)
First Grade: cow girl
Second Grade: gypsie
Third Grade: pesant
Fourth Grade: nacy drew (wow what a loooser costume)
Fifth Grade: sorceress (very awesome costume)
Sixth Grade: fortune teller
Seventh Grade: Zoe the fire breathing sheep (one of my comics characters
Eighth Grade: I was debating between Chiyo-chan and Bleu L. Finnegan but I wound up going as Rem from deathnote. it was an awesome costume. i mad it myself. except everyone thought i was a mumy.
I’m not doing anything this year unless I go to a party. 14 years realy shouldn’t go trick or treating in my opinion. they are too old.
I have a recipe for a tourist costume somewhere around here… *searches*
More than just a tourist.
Pirate:
There are two ways to dress up like a pirate. There a Smee-like sort of pirate, and there’s “tattered finery”. Or you could combine the two to make a third type.
Smee:
* Red and white horizontally striped shirt. Broad stripes are the best, but narrow ones will work too.
* Red and white bandana. Fold it in half diagonally and tie it around your head. You could also use green, red, or blue.
* Brown, black, or navy blue pants or capris. You can tuck them into your stockings or just leave them be.
* Stockings. Striped stockings are the best, but just plain white is fine.
* Brown or black boots. Rubber boots are okay, but leather, natural or man-made, is better, if you have it.
* Brown or black shoes. Penny loafers, Mary Janes, dress shoes, or even sneakers will do in a pinch.
* Sword, cutlass, or dagger. You costume will be pointless without at least one of these. You could probably buy a plastic sword at any toy store, but you could also make one. This is how:
First cut out a piece of corrugated cardboard the shape of your sword, cutlass, or dagger, including the hilt. Lay a thin strip of wood along either ` side of the cardboard sword to prevent it from bending, and cover the whole thing with silver duct tape. Take gold ribbon and wrap it around the hilt. Fasten it with glue or more duct tape – but make sure it doesn’t show – or tie it, and tuck the loose ends in. Tying is not advised, as the gold ribbon starts to come off in the middle of trick-or-treating.
“Tattered finery”:
* Instead of the striped shirt, go for a lacy, ruffly, or silky blouse. It doesn’t matter if it’s stained or ripped.
Cinderella:
Cinderella has two costumes, Rags and Riches. If you want to dress up as Cinderella at the ball, see the section “Princess,” but I warn you, unless you wear a big sign saying “CINDERELLA”, you’ll probably be mistaken for just any princess. Her Rags costume is more instantly recognizable as Cinderella, so thats what I’ve put down here.
* Brown dress. Technically, it doesn’t have to be brown. It could be red, blue, green, or purple, too, and these would give a sense of having fallen in the world but they would also take more dirtying than a brown dress to make them look like rags. Whatever color your dress is, it’s best that you get it very cheap or free at a thrift store or a clothing bank. That way you can rip, snip, and clip it ’til it looks like a rag. Mend some of the rips, but not all. If you get your dress from your own closet, then you probably shouldn’t tear it to pieces. To make up for that, baste patches onto it, or get mud on your hem (as long as it doesn’t stain!). You can take the patches off afterward, and wash the dress.
* Stained apron. You could probably find this in your kitchen, but if you can’t, here’s how to make one. A couple of weeks before Halloween, offer to cook one meal a day until Halloween. Make lots of tomato soup and chocolate cake, and when you wash it- instant stains! Well, maybe not so very instant. If that’s too much trouble, forget about it having to be stained and just wear an apron.
* Shawl. Any old scarf will do, doubly good if it’s wool.
* Broom. This is almost essential if you don’t want to be mistaken for the Little Match Girl. Make sure it’s small enough to carry.
* Shoes. It seems right and proper for Cinderella to be barefoot, but not you.
Tourist:
Not a very scary Halloween costume, but a funny one. But before you go trick-or-treating, make sure there aren’t any real tourists around. They might not like your parody.
Most of these things can be found at clothing banks or thrift-stores, or even in your own closet. If not your closet, maybe your parents’ or your siblings.
* Hawaiian shirt.
* T-shirt. If you go for a T-shirt instead of a Hawaiian one, then bear in mind that it should have either a brand name or a picture of something local on the front. Even if it’s not local to your home town, it shouldn’t be ambiguous, like a butterfly. It should also have words, even if it already has a picture. It should not be form-fitting. Here’s a tip: Lay it out on a flat surface, and if it’s anything more shapely than a rectangle with two little rectangles for sleeves, don’t wear it. Tuck it into your shorts, if you dare.
* Longish shorts, preferably beige. Large pockets don’t hurt either, and you can put your maps in them.
* Bermuda shorts.
* Velour sweatsuit.
* White or striped sneakers. Brand names or letters can be found on almost every pair, and will add to the tourist-y feel.
* Visor. Put your hair in a ponytail on the top of your head and stick it through. Voila! Instant tourist head-wear.
* Baseball cap. Wear it front forward to show off a brand name, or the logo of a company.
* Boater hats. Choose one with a logo on the front, like baseball hats.
* Fanny pack. Big is good. You can stuff it full of cotton or rags, or you could also put empty film canisters and and keys that no longer have locks to them inside it.
* Camera hung around the neck.
* Guidebook or map. It doesn’t matter if it’s a map of Hong Kong and you’re trick-or-treating in Louisiana, or vice versa. It isn’t absolutely essential, either, if you don’t want to lug a 500 page guidebook to Quebec around your neighborhood.
16-THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO OLD FOR HALLOWEEN. OR TRICKER-TREATING. Unless you’re like, eighty and can’t walk around dressed up, even as something simple and obvious.
I’m planning on being Fred/George Weasley, but I haven’t exactly figured out how… can anyone help me?
Then again, my mother would probably kill me because she loathes Harry Potter, so I’ll tell her I’m something stupid like *scoff* a magician *scoff*.
I still have haloween candy from last year! It’s very thin, though.
Yeah, some seniors I knew went last year. I’ll probably continue wearing a costume through collage and beyond, pretending to be someone else. Because that’s where the real fun lies (ahhh, pun, *pies self*).
Ideas for costumes– these are the best three I’ve ever seen:
Junior Bird Man: Walk around with your hands in that stupid upside-down goggle shape around your eyes. Wear whatever you like. (Two of my friends, who are high-school age, actually did this and got away with it).
Wolverine: All you need is butter knives and a bad attitude.
*Semi-nudist: Just because it’s funny. Walk around in nothing but a pair of crazy boxers (my friend had a pair of short ones that were red white and blue). I’m not sure if you can do this anywhere other than California, due to the fortunate combination of the residents’ open-mindedness and weather…
*Please remember that I hold no responsibility for any actions taken against you while in this costume.
I, for one, am going to be Dorothy from the wizard of oz, just because I want a slightly more common costume than Arwen, a Rennaissance wench, or a gypsy, which I have been three years in a row. The only reason is because people have told me I resemble Judy Garland (I can’t see it, but whatever) and because I am wearing it to our Halloween-themed dance.
(24) Did you know that Junior Birdmen were real? My father was one in the 1930s. I’ve seen his membership card.
For Dorothy, you’ll need a blue checked dress. That is one detail that the movie got right. As the book explains, the Munchkins accepted Dorothy partly because blue was their color.
Should I do the idea I mention in post one? Or should I be someone from the movie Hairspray? I could tease my hair and such and do the mashed potato down the street. Which one?
Ok can I take a poll? Who thinks I should do
a.) a group of friends with a giant check, camera, balloons, flowers etc. going door to door like those ‘you win 1 million dollars’ people
b.) A character from hairspray with crazy rock hard hair and a funny poofy dress and flats doing the mashed potato
I might act at the haunted hayride if I can get my parents to let me, but they wouldn’t let me do it last year. I’ll probably have to mooch rides off my friends to have any chance.
If I don’t do the haunted hayride I want to be really scary. I’ve been many kinds of witches, an angel, Emily the Strange, and a mime with my friend Rosalie. I’ve never actually been scary, but I’m going to this year. I should sneak around in bushes making weird noises and waving a pool noodle at people.
Scary Ideas:
Vampire
Zombie
Scuba gear zombie
Other stuff
I would love to have a big lacy dress like the one in the Marie Antionette movie, but I don’t know where to get a cheap one and my grandma isn’t making me one anytime soon. I could get a plain old long dress and make a bustle to put under it.
A girl in my taekwondo class makes all her costumes and they’re awesome. The ones I remember most are the Mona Lisa and a toy claw machine.
Beakman
A Pumpkin
Caper the Friendly Ghost
Princess
Black Cat
Vampiress
Chinese Girl
Baker
Washing Machine
Headless Person
And this year I’ll be Princess Leia from Star Wars created by George Lucas.
Kindergarten: Cat
First Grade: Fairy Princess
Second Grade: Skeleton
Third Grade: Will from W.I.T.C.H.
Fourth Grade: Snowflake Superhero
Fifth Grade: Otherplanetary Warrior
And this year, I’m being…
MAXIMUM RIDE!!!
I’m almosts positive. I’ve started making the wings and everything! It demands a lot of wire hangers, btw.
if I’m not maximum ride, i’ll probably be trillian or another interplanetary warrior (the costume possibilities are endless).
What I’m really depressed about is, next halloween (2008), while everyone I know will be dressing up and romping about the neighborhood in search of candy, I’ll be stuck in tight dress, welcoming people to my BAT MITZVAH DINNER.
grr!
And my mom actually sche——
BREAKING NEWS!!
my mom just interrupted my rant to say:
since the [nameofmycity] t-o-ting hours are 4-7, I can actually do it next year b/c my dinner starts at seven!! w00t!
32-Good idea……..*sigh* he is pretty good looking, but he isnt my favorite. I think I will kidnap Nick Jonas and make him walk around with me and be Link……WAIT! Oh no, if I ask my mom if I could be amber and get someone to be Link she would be like oooooohhhhhh in that lovesick puppy dog voice!!! OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do what to do…….oh well. Maybe she will just get over it, I hope so…..*cries*
24- yay for wolverine, but you also need side burns!
i’ll wait and see what other people are doing, but so far i’m uninspired. in my city you just don’t go out in a costume unless you’re at a party or whatever. your town/city may be diferent.
32- Maybe you could do a Halloween-themed costumey Bat Mitzvah? If that’s not completely taboo or anything. I don’t mean to offend anyone. I know basically nothing about Jewish culture so do forgive me but I mean no harm with that.
I would die if I was allergic to chocolate. I’m not allergic to anything, but my sister likes to tell me I am because she’s jealous and wants me to have allergies like her.
38- Oh my. I can’t say I’m really sorry for you, since the candy isn’t the best part nohow, but that does put a bit of a damper on t-o-ting.
I’m trying to think of a candy that doesn’t have corn syrup, because I know it must exist, but I just remembered that we had to use corn syrup when we made nut brittle. And we never use corn syrup.
Maybe I’ll be a kayaker. I can make a big cardboard kayak and cut out the bottom and carry a paddle around with me, and wear a tuilik (GAH! NO! Inflexibility!) and a life jacket and three wetsuits. Then if I want to roll, all I have to do is learn how to cartwheel in a tuilik, and I’m set. I wonder how many people I would injure.
I didn’t t-o-t last year. And maybe not the year before. It’s odd. The last year I did, I was the thing I want to be when I grow up, so I didn’t know where to go from there. And all of the kids in my neighborhood are little and people give Not Especially Tasty Candy (NETC) here too. We just sit on the porch stealing candy from the big basket of stuff we are handing out, and get better stuff.
I probably wouldn’t have to dress up to scare anyone here anyways!
23-You seem to like to call people “honey” when talking to them if you have a different opinion… /
I just learned that we are not t-o-ting with the girl we usually t-o-t with, because she will be in Texas. So unless I happen to meet someone who is going trick-or-treating (not too far-fetched of a goal), I probably won’t go.
I plan to ToT every year until people stop giving me candy. I bought a bunch of plain white tshirts that I’m going to sew into a dress and dye dark red and be the Queen of Sparta. Hehe. (I’m fourteen. Yay for being in high school and still ToTing! It’s cooler since I’m sewing my own costume anyway.)
49- Like in 300? Man, now I sooo want to be a Spartan! However, the cape/codpiece garb could be a bit of a problem… Maybe I’ll be an Immortal instead.
I dunno if I’m going this year; it depends on what’s going on and how much I’m thinking about NaNoWriMo. But I am totally wearing my pointy ear tips to school on 31 October!
I have decided that I want to be a blamange for Halloween. I do not know how I will manage this, but I definitely need a tennis racket. I don’t really think I’ll go trick-or-treating, though. Although if I can find some people to go with, maybe I will.
WAIT!!!! Should I be Tracy from Hairspray with my hair all poofed up and everything and try to find a Link? Or should I be a ballet dancer with a stiff sparkly tutu and my face all gooped up? OOOOOHHHHHH…….hard choices……………
I LOVE EVERYONES HALLOWEEN SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My cousin is having her wedding in two weeks and I’m junior bridesmaid so I’m going to use that as my costume and be a duchess or something. (gotta find a tiara and some good costume jewelry)
I dunno what I’ll be for halloween. Last year I was simply a colonial person. Big whoop. I’ve been a princess, pirate (on more than one occasion), pumpkin, witch, ghost (I think.), and person form Harry Potter. Others too, but I can’t remember them.
Maybe this year I’ll go as a pirate queen, put on my colonial shift, jumps, petticoat, stockings and shoes, dad’s big brown colonial jacket that’s way too big on me, a sash to hold it together, my ancient cap gun stuck in the sash, a sword, (preferably not the wooden one,) and the hat with one side cocked, since I don’t have a tricorn.
I guess that would work, but I hate dressing up in colonial clothes in a manner that they wouldn’t have done; people are so stupid about historical clothes to begin with, that it really throws them off. Grrr. I can feel a rant coming on, so I’ll stop typing and just submit this already…..
Last year I was Marilyn Monroe. And there were two juniors that duct-taped themselves together and went as the two sides of a mullet. One was in a suit, and the other was…. well……just weird.
I need costume ideas. I was thinking about getting together some friends and making a giant check for 1,000,000 dollars, a giant camera, balloons, flowers etc and walking around with everyone holding something like that you know? Maybe we could fool some people, but that could be a bit embarassing. Any ideas????
Woo! I’m going to be myself, unless plans change. I’m plenty scary enough.
I’m not going trick-or-treating. I’ll probably be going to a party, and besides, trick-or-treating is unbecoming for a senior. However, if I can get away with it, I’m going to school with my face painted with blue whorls like a Celtic woad raider. (For the layperson, that means like the people in Braveheart, although Mel Gibson shouldn’t have done his whole face. He should’ve had a pattern going.) Sure, I might scare some people, but no more than I do on a daily basis.
To whoever asked me why I don’t leave my wallet around for the girl I fancy to find: she’s probably at least five hundred miles away. See, I met her over the summer at this thing I went to called NSLC (National Student Leadership Conference). As I’m feeling rather secure in the anonymity of the Internet once again and I don’t have anyone with doubtful scruples gunning for me this year, I’m going to tell y’all that I think I’m in love with this girl.
NOTE TO ANYONE FROM MY SCHOOL: IF YOU SPREAD THIS AROUND, I WILL FIND YOU. WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE FINDING WILL BE PAINFUL.
My feet hurt and I’m angry at my boss. He deserves it. He also deserves a heaping helping of my unbridled rage, I deserve more than minimum wage for what I put up with, and Karl Rove deserved to have his car shrink-wrapped the other day. Sadly, the third is the only one that has happened so far.
Oh, you tricked me. I thought this was the randomness thread. I’m going to copy and paste everything but the first paragraph into the randomness thread.
I desperately need costume ideas. I have a few, I just need to use the process of elimination and most likely I’ll end up as a dryad (which was what my mom was for my first Hallowe’en) (I was a pumpkin) (My dad was a tree) (I think). Hey! I could be Rhoda! Or what Rhoda would look like were she to dress up in as dryad-ish a costume as she possibly could. And then I’ll call myself “Elderseventh” and wander around switching things. And baffle everybody, especially my little sister. Because I won’t tell her a word.
Hmm. Wonder if I can get down to California and maybe find Canix and Stormy and go trick-or-treating with them…
I’ll probably be going trick-or-treating. I think it was last year that I was going to quit, but I couldn’t give it up. I’m not ready to fully renounce my childhood (gosh, now that sounds pretentious), and there wasn’t a party to go to anyway. Plus I’m very small so maybe I can get away with looking like I’m twelve or something. (Not that it’s a big deal; I see teenagers trick-or-treating every Hallowe’en.)
Last Hallowe’en my grandma died. It’s sad, but kind of neat in a way too. Not that she died, but that she died on Hallowe’en.
I spell Hallowe’en with a comma. It’s really pretentious, but also quite fun.
Last year I was an Edwardian lady. Complete with hairstyle that I couldn’t touch for fear it would fall apart and very thin-soled boots through which I could feel the sidewalk and a lot of hairspray. The year before I was a witch. I think . . . I was sort of a cross between the classic witch and Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service. The year before that I was Wendy. It was possibly my worst Hallowe’en costume ever. The year before that I was Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and that was a really good costume, although we went t-o-ting in the boring-est town ever and no one knew who I was because it was so cold I had to bundle up. The year before that I was a princess and my crown kept falling off . . . and before that I was a chick. I dressed up in yellow and I had cardboard wings and a wimple . . . and then I sort of lose track. I know I was a ghost at one point, and possibly a butterfly when I was a toddler, but that might have just been my sister . . .
And that’s that.
My dad has very good stories from when he working in a haunted house, but I always get them mixed up with when he worked in a theater. He has a very interesting past, you know.
I’ll probably go as myself, w/ my friend and her little sister. Or I’ll go locally, and possibly get into shaving cream/ toilet paper madness.
It’s always cold and I’m told to where a coat over my costume.
I think I was myself last year, too… with a witch hat, I think. Boring.
Oh, man! I’m going as an all-out official emokid (no offense to anyone who might be emo…I said all-out)!!! I decided to try out my idea for wrist-scars (lip-liner lines) yesterday, and it worked beautifully!
So, that’s what I’m going to be, and I’m going to go trick-or-treating with a bunch of friends from my theatre group. It’s gonna be a blast!
*rubs hands* Let’s see…
Ahh, yes. Even though I am a sophomore, I’m still going out. My friend (also a soph) couldn’t go last year because of play rehersal, so she’ll come with me as will another friend. One of my close friends isn’t sure she’s going trick-or-treating.
I’m going to be a crow-girl for Halloween! I decided in June, after reading Someplace to be Flying. I was thinking about being Margeret (a magpie) too, but decided on Zia. My friend might go as Madia with me. I’m embelishing on the discription de Lint gave of them, though, to fit my purposes.
As for the costume, I’m wearing a pair of black capris that are sort of rough-looking, I’ll probably cut the hems a bit and fray them to give more effect and maybe add a few cuts here and there. I also have a long short-sleeved black shirt I’m going to cut a bit along the bottom too. To both of these I will attach feathers (the soft, long, fuzzy kind)
On my arms, I’m going to tie long strips of black material on my wrist, forarm, and just before the elbow. To each of these I will attach a long black-dyed goose feather (or maybe 2), tying them or gluing them to the loose ends of fabric.
Then I’m going to draw designs on the leftover skin, sort of like what Grant was talking about (post 3- nice, by the way) only in black. On my face I might have a sort of crow outline though.
I’m not sure what to do with my hair. I have several ideas, but I don’t know how hard they’d be or if they’d look good.
Idea1: Hair in high ponytail, with bangs (they’re as long as the rest of my hair (about mid-back)) hanging out in front (parted on either side of face) and a black goosefeather tied on to each of them with black embroidery floss. The hair in the pony tail would have a few thin braids in it with thin black feathers woven into the braids (I have those types of feathers already, they’re about 6 inches long and a quarter of an inch wide).
Idea2: Hair down, with lots of braids scatered into it. Woven into some braids would be the long skinny feathers, on some at the end there would be the soft larger feathers, and on some there would be the small feathers I have with black seed beeds strung on them. Then on other braids I would attach some silver charms, like the kind you find on a charm bracelet.
There were other ideas, but I don’t recall them at the moment. I’d probably wear my hair like that to school if I could manage it.
I now have my Princess Leia Regal White costume, but it’s transparent, basically. So I have to wear white.
This is the whole reason I grew my hair long!!
I’ll choose my favorites for you guys.
1- That’d be hilarious.
2- Ah, yesh. xD
3- Sounds good. And, I’m not from your school. Dun worry.
5- Again, sounds good. *szhoom, szhoom*
6- Toilet paper- now THAT’S an idea…
7- That’s what my friend is doing. xD
8- Cooooooooollllll……
I had a really awesome costume idea. Get a large cardboard box, paint it, take out the bottom, and punch lifesize holes into the top. Put a long bit of carboard on the back, and paint it to say “WHACKAMOLE!” Persuade some friends to dress up as moles or gophers or other such terricolous critters (at least on the upper half of their bodies). Get another friend to dress up as a giant hammer. Voila! A whack-a-mole arcade game.
This is one of those ideas that is really awesome, but will never work in real life.
It’s always cold here for Halloween. There’s usually a decent amount of snow on the ground. So naturally we have to wear ski jackets cuz mom’s all worried about hypothermia and frostbite. Only this year I have this really sweet jacket that isn’t bulky but still keeps out the cold and wind really well.
I need a costume idea…
:idea:TNÖ:idea:
I’m not going trick or treating this year. Hopefully there will be a party to go to because this is really depressing to me. My mom said she would make a costume though. So… I’m going to be violindino of Pomegranate. That’s myself from the pie war thread.
Past Halloween costumes:
Kindergarten: a pumpkin
First Grade: a black cat
Second Grade: Hermione
Third Grade: a vampire
Fourth Grade: I think I was a vampire again
Fifth Grade: a ghost. I bought a lovely piece of swamp to haunt from my friend who was a real estate agent.
Sixth Grade: a devil
Seventh Grade: a devil again (it was a very cool costume)
Eighth Grade: a dragon tamer
When I was little, my parents dressed me up as a penguin, a cheerleader, and a witch. I don’t remember these, but there’s pictures of me. I look particuarly unhappy in the cheerleader one.
I have no idea what I’m oing as. If I’m going with my little cousins I’m probably going to end up in something like a penguin costume, if I go with my friends, I’m going to try and convince them to do three of the muses with me. Ah yes, and feel fee to steal the Santa on Vacation costume. Fun stuff.
I’m not going, so I’ll be decorating the house. Fake gravestones in the yard (maybe), spooky silhouettes in the windows (probably), fake leg sticking out from under the porch (definitely.) Also, I’ll be dressing up as someone to greet the trick-or-treaters. Ideas?
Already? bit early
eh, i’ll probably go to a party again. i’ve never been particularly good at making costumes…most of them were thrown together at the last minute anyway. i might wear a cape or a funny hat or something
my past hallowe’en costumes:
Kindergarten: black widdow spider (my bro was a poisonous lizard)
First Grade: cow girl
Second Grade: gypsie
Third Grade: pesant
Fourth Grade: nacy drew (wow what a loooser costume)
Fifth Grade: sorceress (very awesome costume)
Sixth Grade: fortune teller
Seventh Grade: Zoe the fire breathing sheep (one of my comics characters
Eighth Grade: I was debating between Chiyo-chan and Bleu L. Finnegan but I wound up going as Rem from deathnote. it was an awesome costume. i mad it myself. except everyone thought i was a mumy.
I’m not doing anything this year unless I go to a party. 14 years realy shouldn’t go trick or treating in my opinion. they are too old.
14- Hmm. No idea. Tutankhbastet.
I have a recipe for a tourist costume somewhere around here… *searches*
More than just a tourist.
Pirate:
There are two ways to dress up like a pirate. There a Smee-like sort of pirate, and there’s “tattered finery”. Or you could combine the two to make a third type.
Smee:
* Red and white horizontally striped shirt. Broad stripes are the best, but narrow ones will work too.
* Red and white bandana. Fold it in half diagonally and tie it around your head. You could also use green, red, or blue.
* Brown, black, or navy blue pants or capris. You can tuck them into your stockings or just leave them be.
* Stockings. Striped stockings are the best, but just plain white is fine.
* Brown or black boots. Rubber boots are okay, but leather, natural or man-made, is better, if you have it.
* Brown or black shoes. Penny loafers, Mary Janes, dress shoes, or even sneakers will do in a pinch.
* Sword, cutlass, or dagger. You costume will be pointless without at least one of these. You could probably buy a plastic sword at any toy store, but you could also make one. This is how:
First cut out a piece of corrugated cardboard the shape of your sword, cutlass, or dagger, including the hilt. Lay a thin strip of wood along either ` side of the cardboard sword to prevent it from bending, and cover the whole thing with silver duct tape. Take gold ribbon and wrap it around the hilt. Fasten it with glue or more duct tape – but make sure it doesn’t show – or tie it, and tuck the loose ends in. Tying is not advised, as the gold ribbon starts to come off in the middle of trick-or-treating.
“Tattered finery”:
* Instead of the striped shirt, go for a lacy, ruffly, or silky blouse. It doesn’t matter if it’s stained or ripped.
Cinderella:
Cinderella has two costumes, Rags and Riches. If you want to dress up as Cinderella at the ball, see the section “Princess,” but I warn you, unless you wear a big sign saying “CINDERELLA”, you’ll probably be mistaken for just any princess. Her Rags costume is more instantly recognizable as Cinderella, so thats what I’ve put down here.
* Brown dress. Technically, it doesn’t have to be brown. It could be red, blue, green, or purple, too, and these would give a sense of having fallen in the world but they would also take more dirtying than a brown dress to make them look like rags. Whatever color your dress is, it’s best that you get it very cheap or free at a thrift store or a clothing bank. That way you can rip, snip, and clip it ’til it looks like a rag. Mend some of the rips, but not all. If you get your dress from your own closet, then you probably shouldn’t tear it to pieces. To make up for that, baste patches onto it, or get mud on your hem (as long as it doesn’t stain!). You can take the patches off afterward, and wash the dress.
* Stained apron. You could probably find this in your kitchen, but if you can’t, here’s how to make one. A couple of weeks before Halloween, offer to cook one meal a day until Halloween. Make lots of tomato soup and chocolate cake, and when you wash it- instant stains! Well, maybe not so very instant. If that’s too much trouble, forget about it having to be stained and just wear an apron.
* Shawl. Any old scarf will do, doubly good if it’s wool.
* Broom. This is almost essential if you don’t want to be mistaken for the Little Match Girl. Make sure it’s small enough to carry.
* Shoes. It seems right and proper for Cinderella to be barefoot, but not you.
Tourist:
Not a very scary Halloween costume, but a funny one. But before you go trick-or-treating, make sure there aren’t any real tourists around. They might not like your parody.
Most of these things can be found at clothing banks or thrift-stores, or even in your own closet. If not your closet, maybe your parents’ or your siblings.
* Hawaiian shirt.
* T-shirt. If you go for a T-shirt instead of a Hawaiian one, then bear in mind that it should have either a brand name or a picture of something local on the front. Even if it’s not local to your home town, it shouldn’t be ambiguous, like a butterfly. It should also have words, even if it already has a picture. It should not be form-fitting. Here’s a tip: Lay it out on a flat surface, and if it’s anything more shapely than a rectangle with two little rectangles for sleeves, don’t wear it. Tuck it into your shorts, if you dare.
* Longish shorts, preferably beige. Large pockets don’t hurt either, and you can put your maps in them.
* Bermuda shorts.
* Velour sweatsuit.
* White or striped sneakers. Brand names or letters can be found on almost every pair, and will add to the tourist-y feel.
* Visor. Put your hair in a ponytail on the top of your head and stick it through. Voila! Instant tourist head-wear.
* Baseball cap. Wear it front forward to show off a brand name, or the logo of a company.
* Boater hats. Choose one with a logo on the front, like baseball hats.
* Fanny pack. Big is good. You can stuff it full of cotton or rags, or you could also put empty film canisters and and keys that no longer have locks to them inside it.
* Camera hung around the neck.
* Guidebook or map. It doesn’t matter if it’s a map of Hong Kong and you’re trick-or-treating in Louisiana, or vice versa. It isn’t absolutely essential, either, if you don’t want to lug a 500 page guidebook to Quebec around your neighborhood.
* Wristwatch.
16- Too OLD? How on Earth can you be too old?
I just want the atmosphere. I don’t care about the candy.
16-THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO OLD FOR HALLOWEEN. OR TRICKER-TREATING. Unless you’re like, eighty and can’t walk around dressed up, even as something simple and obvious.
I’m planning on being Fred/George Weasley, but I haven’t exactly figured out how… can anyone help me?
Then again, my mother would probably kill me because she loathes Harry Potter, so I’ll tell her I’m something stupid like *scoff* a magician *scoff*.
I still have haloween candy from last year! It’s very thin, though.
Too old is when it’s not fun anymore. Not fun for me anymore. Of course it varies person to person.
That said I will eat all the low priced candy. The sweet taste of an excuse, mwaha.
Yeah, some seniors I knew went last year. I’ll probably continue wearing a costume through collage and beyond, pretending to be someone else. Because that’s where the real fun lies (ahhh, pun, *pies self*).
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. This year I will probubly either be a preying mantis or a peice of asparagus.
14-What the Halloween do you mean you’re not going?!?!?!?! Why???
16-Honey, I’m 16 this year, and I’m going trick-or-treating! There’s no such thing as “too old” in this case.
Ideas for costumes– these are the best three I’ve ever seen:
Junior Bird Man: Walk around with your hands in that stupid upside-down goggle shape around your eyes. Wear whatever you like. (Two of my friends, who are high-school age, actually did this and got away with it).
Wolverine: All you need is butter knives and a bad attitude.
*Semi-nudist: Just because it’s funny. Walk around in nothing but a pair of crazy boxers (my friend had a pair of short ones that were red white and blue). I’m not sure if you can do this anywhere other than California, due to the fortunate combination of the residents’ open-mindedness and weather…
*Please remember that I hold no responsibility for any actions taken against you while in this costume.
I, for one, am going to be Dorothy from the wizard of oz, just because I want a slightly more common costume than Arwen, a Rennaissance wench, or a gypsy, which I have been three years in a row. The only reason is because people have told me I resemble Judy Garland (I can’t see it, but whatever) and because I am wearing it to our Halloween-themed dance.
PS.–The semi-nudist is good for boys. Probably not good for girls, unless you live in a REALLY open-minded community…
(24) Did you know that Junior Birdmen were real? My father was one in the 1930s. I’ve seen his membership card.
For Dorothy, you’ll need a blue checked dress. That is one detail that the movie got right. As the book explains, the Munchkins accepted Dorothy partly because blue was their color.
Should I do the idea I mention in post one? Or should I be someone from the movie Hairspray? I could tease my hair and such and do the mashed potato down the street. Which one?
Ok can I take a poll? Who thinks I should do
a.) a group of friends with a giant check, camera, balloons, flowers etc. going door to door like those ‘you win 1 million dollars’ people
b.) A character from hairspray with crazy rock hard hair and a funny poofy dress and flats doing the mashed potato
I’d do the one that allows you to dance.
I might act at the haunted hayride if I can get my parents to let me, but they wouldn’t let me do it last year. I’ll probably have to mooch rides off my friends to have any chance.
If I don’t do the haunted hayride I want to be really scary. I’ve been many kinds of witches, an angel, Emily the Strange, and a mime with my friend Rosalie. I’ve never actually been scary, but I’m going to this year. I should sneak around in bushes making weird noises and waving a pool noodle at people.
Scary Ideas:
Vampire
Zombie
Scuba gear zombie
Other stuff
I would love to have a big lacy dress like the one in the Marie Antionette movie, but I don’t know where to get a cheap one and my grandma isn’t making me one anytime soon. I could get a plain old long dress and make a bustle to put under it.
A girl in my taekwondo class makes all her costumes and they’re awesome. The ones I remember most are the Mona Lisa and a toy claw machine.
Beakman
A Pumpkin
Caper the Friendly Ghost
Princess
Black Cat
Vampiress
Chinese Girl
Baker
Washing Machine
Headless Person
And this year I’ll be Princess Leia from Star Wars created by George Lucas.
28-good idea!!! I’ll go with the Hairspray one. Maybe I can be Amber and can get someone to dress up as Link….but who……
31- KIDNAP ZAC EFRON
My previous costumes:
Kindergarten: Cat
First Grade: Fairy Princess
Second Grade: Skeleton
Third Grade: Will from W.I.T.C.H.
Fourth Grade: Snowflake Superhero
Fifth Grade: Otherplanetary Warrior
And this year, I’m being…
MAXIMUM RIDE!!!
I’m almosts positive. I’ve started making the wings and everything! It demands a lot of wire hangers, btw.
if I’m not maximum ride, i’ll probably be trillian or another interplanetary warrior (the costume possibilities are endless).
What I’m really depressed about is, next halloween (2008), while everyone I know will be dressing up and romping about the neighborhood in search of candy, I’ll be stuck in tight dress, welcoming people to my BAT MITZVAH DINNER.
grr!
And my mom actually sche——
BREAKING NEWS!!
my mom just interrupted my rant to say:
since the [nameofmycity] t-o-ting hours are 4-7, I can actually do it next year b/c my dinner starts at seven!! w00t!
32. me and my friends used to be obsessed with WITCH- we all thought we were witches and they thought i was hay lynn.
if you’ve heard the song bananaphone than this should make sense!
i’m ordering a banana costume and sharpieing on numbers!
so i will be a bananaphone!
32-Good idea……..*sigh* he is pretty good looking, but he isnt my favorite. I think I will kidnap Nick Jonas and make him walk around with me and be Link……WAIT! Oh no, if I ask my mom if I could be amber and get someone to be Link she would be like oooooohhhhhh in that lovesick puppy dog voice!!! OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do what to do…….oh well. Maybe she will just get over it, I hope so…..*cries*
32- My friend is obsessed with that book. O.O
33- I love the W.I.T.C.H series! I’m on like… fifteen or something.
24- yay for wolverine, but you also need side burns!
i’ll wait and see what other people are doing, but so far i’m uninspired. in my city you just don’t go out in a costume unless you’re at a party or whatever. your town/city may be diferent.
32- Maybe you could do a Halloween-themed costumey Bat Mitzvah? If that’s not completely taboo or anything. I don’t mean to offend anyone. I know basically nothing about Jewish culture so do forgive me but I mean no harm with that.
23- I’m allergic to corn syrup (ruling out half of all known candy) and chocolate (ruling out the other half.)
38-That’s awful! *sends non-chocolate, non-corn-syrup candy*
I would die if I was allergic to chocolate. I’m not allergic to anything, but my sister likes to tell me I am because she’s jealous and wants me to have allergies like her.
37- L’OMG!!!
YESPLZTHNX
I AM SO DOING A HALLOWEEN BAT MITZVAH
but… my mom doesn’t want me to have a theme.. so oh well.
38- EAT PIXY STIX! pure sugar…
38- Oh my. I can’t say I’m really sorry for you, since the candy isn’t the best part nohow, but that does put a bit of a damper on t-o-ting.
I’m trying to think of a candy that doesn’t have corn syrup, because I know it must exist, but I just remembered that we had to use corn syrup when we made nut brittle. And we never use corn syrup.
Maybe I’ll be a kayaker. I can make a big cardboard kayak and cut out the bottom and carry a paddle around with me, and wear a tuilik (GAH! NO! Inflexibility!) and a life jacket and three wetsuits. Then if I want to roll, all I have to do is learn how to cartwheel in a tuilik, and I’m set. I wonder how many people I would injure.
5- And me! I live there to.
19- Is she really religious?
42- Comment 42, Ag! Congrats!
43- Wha? Oh, hey! Cool!
I don’t really know what to be..
Choice number 1: vampire
2: Black Parade member
3. Helena (possibly)
4. those people with fishbowls on their heads
I guess one or three would both be the most fun. Huh. I’ll have to watch the Helena video again.
32 – Awesome! I love Maximum Ride.
I didn’t t-o-t last year. And maybe not the year before. It’s odd. The last year I did, I was the thing I want to be when I grow up, so I didn’t know where to go from there. And all of the kids in my neighborhood are little and people give Not Especially Tasty Candy (NETC) here too. We just sit on the porch stealing candy from the big basket of stuff we are handing out, and get better stuff.
I probably wouldn’t have to dress up to scare anyone here anyways!
23-You seem to like to call people “honey” when talking to them if you have a different opinion…
/ 
*Gobbles candy*
RtH
I just learned that we are not t-o-ting with the girl we usually t-o-t with, because she will be in Texas. So unless I happen to meet someone who is going trick-or-treating (not too far-fetched of a goal), I probably won’t go.
I plan to ToT every year until people stop giving me candy. I bought a bunch of plain white tshirts that I’m going to sew into a dress and dye dark red and be the Queen of Sparta. Hehe. (I’m fourteen. Yay for being in high school and still ToTing! It’s cooler since I’m sewing my own costume anyway.)
49- Makes sense. I just don’t want to do it with my sister.
40- ^_^ do it!
49- Like in 300? Man, now I sooo want to be a Spartan! However, the cape/codpiece garb could be a bit of a problem… Maybe I’ll be an Immortal instead.
I dunno if I’m going this year; it depends on what’s going on and how much I’m thinking about NaNoWriMo. But I am totally wearing my pointy ear tips to school on 31 October!
I am going to be a doctor. my godfather works at a hospital so he can send me the works (srubs,booties,mask,cap)
I have decided that I want to be a blamange for Halloween. I do not know how I will manage this, but I definitely need a tennis racket. I don’t really think I’ll go trick-or-treating, though. Although if I can find some people to go with, maybe I will.
51-Ooh! NaNoWriMo! I can’t wait!!
WAIT!!!! Should I be Tracy from Hairspray with my hair all poofed up and everything and try to find a Link? Or should I be a ballet dancer with a stiff sparkly tutu and my face all gooped up? OOOOOHHHHHH…….hard choices……………
I LOVE EVERYONES HALLOWEEN SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My cousin is having her wedding in two weeks and I’m junior bridesmaid so I’m going to use that as my costume and be a duchess or something. (gotta find a tiara and some good costume jewelry)
I dunno what I’ll be for halloween. Last year I was simply a colonial person. Big whoop. I’ve been a princess, pirate (on more than one occasion), pumpkin, witch, ghost (I think.), and person form Harry Potter. Others too, but I can’t remember them.
Maybe this year I’ll go as a pirate queen, put on my colonial shift, jumps, petticoat, stockings and shoes, dad’s big brown colonial jacket that’s way too big on me, a sash to hold it together, my ancient cap gun stuck in the sash, a sword, (preferably not the wooden one,) and the hat with one side cocked, since I don’t have a tricorn.
I guess that would work, but I hate dressing up in colonial clothes in a manner that they wouldn’t have done; people are so stupid about historical clothes to begin with, that it really throws them off. Grrr. I can feel a rant coming on, so I’ll stop typing and just submit this already…..
Last year I was Marilyn Monroe. And there were two juniors that duct-taped themselves together and went as the two sides of a mullet. One was in a suit, and the other was…. well……just weird.
Early Thread! wow!
…and if youre wondering, I am a Dungeons and Dragons character.
You are? l thought you’d be the samurai. That was an awesome costume.
i don’t know if I’m dressing up this year. I don’t have anygood ideas.
I need something surreal.
61- hmmmm… a spirit of somekind mabe?