What's the best costume you've ever worn?

Halloween is right around the corner so tell us about your best costume. Better yet post a picture of it.

pretty cool homemade costumes and had a lot of fun. Sorry, no pics.

:D :hi:

I went trick or treating for drinks done up as the Jolly Green Giant. Just me and my old fashioned glass. Had a great time.

Took a couple of days to get all the food coloring out of the (blonde) hairs on my arms. Sorry, no pics.

I dressed as a French Maid.

Can't even begin to tell you the comments I got for that one.

pajamas, slippers, teddy bear. I applied makeup for dark circles under my eyes. I was an insomniac. Just had to wash my face and I was ready for bed.

well, without with the crying and pooping my pants part. ;-)

went to pick up my wifes friend who called drunk from a halloween party and was wrecked, i turned up on my way home from work in uniform, all the drunks thought it was a costume and i won a bottle of jack daniels :) my wife still jokes that it was the gay cop costume ala Reno 911...

isn't it?

i love the guys who dress as thieves with the swag bags or as gangsters etc, always funny.

we had a live metal band and was having a grand ol' time. Until two cops showed up at our door..well, they LOOKED like cops..down to the stitch!! It was funny because the band thought they were really cops too and trailed off their music..lol..Even their rubber guns looked super real.

Very fun.

from what I understand a kilt is considered formal wear that would even get you into White House black tie affairs.

I would wear one every day but at 250£ it is not practical- I fold my own great kilt out of 9 yards I bought years ago.

Took my Bible and some Chick tracts and went as a fundy.

This is a conceptual costume.

I tape a piece of bread to my chest. I tape a piece of bread (with help) to my back.

What am I?

and the height of her career was being one of the screaming children in "The Birds".

not specifically kwassa.

I looked freakishly like Ferro when I was 15.

That was my favorite costume that my mom made me as a kid. I have an awesome gold and white cape, white outfit with gold sequins. It was awesome, I tried to wear it every day for MONTHS afterward.

As an adult, again, my mom made me an awesome fairy costume one year. I had this beautiful bronze dress, a sheer golden overlay with gold swirls in it and these olive green wings with bronze and gold on it. I'm a natural redhead so the coloring looked great on me.

The cheerleader was easy: Short shorts, white boots, tied up a dark blue blouse to expose the midriff, put a pair of socks in each cup of my bra, and had men following me around all night. Finally stopped, reached into my bra, pulled out socks and handed them to one of the guys saying "Here, go ahead, cop a feel - you know you want to." I have a great picture, but it's an old-fashioned snapshot, and I never got it scanned.

For Captain Morgan, I called a friend who is Thomas Jefferson at Williamsburg, and borrowed a gorgeous colonial coat. Black knickers, ruffled white blouse, knee socks, tri-cornered hat and the key ingredient: a shot glass and bottle of rum. In the interest of looking cute, I didn't go with the beard - cross-dressing only goes so far. All night used the costume as an excuse to approach attractive men and made them do shots with me. No pic - damn!

that might be nearly as good as the picture of you in the costume.

And it taught me a very valuable lesson about men - I got more attention with those damned socks than I ever had in any shorts, bikini, short skirt, etc.

I had been to parties at that fraternity before and never met a soul, but I stuffed my bra --- and BOOM! Miss Popularity. And I got the same reaction at the bars later on, so it wasn't just the fraternity boys.

(I know it was the socks, because the next year, when I was Wonder Woman in a similarly scanty outfit minus the socks, and made FAR less impact)

I've had a crush on him since 3rd grade (TJ, that is)! :loveya:

His name is Bill - I used to date his housemate, and Bill and I used to be the first two up on Saturday mornings, and we would watch Pee Wee's Playhouse together, hungover, in our pajamas.

He is actually a very funny person, a native Philadelphian (with some family in North Carolina, so not a total Yankee). I've never been to see him at Williamsburg but I hear he's great. Nice gig - he's met all the Presidents since Bush Sr, all the Supreme Court justices, the Queen of England and tons of other famous people, and they pay for him to go to Europe all the time for Jefferson-y stuff.

The guy I used to go out with is a lawyer, and it used to infuriate him that Bill, a mere actor, got to talk about the Constitution with guys on the Supreme Court.

and went as a dick-tater.

Some people just cannot take seriously a cautionary tale.

I tend to dress up as the worst disaster of the day. Perhaps I'll go this year as "2012". :rofl:

One year when her commercials were still airing I dressed up as her and did psychic readings.

Grew up in a family that owns a professional costume business.

A few years ago, the M Museum was having this huge Halloween bash (their first) and had our company sponsor their event.I was asked to go and judge costumes. So, I'd been working non-stop and was just exhausted. It was cold outside. I had no idea what I was going to wear, and I had to leave in five minutes.

So, I went and got myself a costume from Fiddler on the Roof. It was a huge bulky skirt, an apron, a big poofy peasants blouse, a shawl and a headscarf. Something like this:
only I'm young and the colours were nicer.

Every other girl at this event (VERY YOUNG) went the "traditional" Halloween way: Cat ears, corset and underwear, mouse ears and underwear, underwear and underwear, basically no one was dressed. They all stared at me like I was insane, in my big bulky outfit. Joke was on them, because I wasn't freezing my cha-chas off :P I stood out like a sore thumb, not that I cared. I never went in for that whole wear-your-undies-in-public thing. My friend still gets the giggles when she pictures me in this sea of sex dressed like a turn of the century Jewish Russian pesant.

The cab driver that took me home was from eastern europe. He loved my outfit, and complimented me repeatedly on it, and told me I was so very sensible to not parade around naked. He said every year he ends up giving free rides to freezing cold young girls who're out in their gotchies. He didn't mean it in a creepy way, he meant it in a "wow I feel so bad for them being so cold" but he also would comment on the foolishness of it.

I just picked something easy to put on that didn't need alteration, was warm, and went over my work clothes so I would have to carry them around all night.
Not a very exciting costume or story. If you could have seen this party with me in that outfit though, you'd see the funny in it.

sexy (__fill in the blank__).

I think most of them are mistaking sexy with trashy, though, frankly. LOTS of stuff can be considered sexy. But to lots of people I've seen out there, it seems like it can't be sexy unless 3/4 of yourself is showing, at least. It can't be sexy unless your boobs are out, belly out, bum out, barely covered anywhere. I dunno, I guess I just don't 'get' it.

Someone called me a 'throwback Victorian', once. :shrug: Weird.

The best news in all of this change, though, is that for the most part now a days our costumes get rented out to people who appreciate them more and seem to take better care of them. We don't have any 'sexy kimonos' or 'sexy cats' or 'sexy anythings' really. We have stuff lots of people would think IS sexy, but nothing that appeals to these generally very young people. This is a good thing.

In drag. And I'm NOT posting a picture.

and scared the HELL out of my daughters.

the "red Death" from the Edgar Allan Poe short story. The shroud I made for it allowed me to completely disappear when I stepped into a shadow.

Handy tip - Don't put red nail polish on your face. It burns like hell.

I really am a mouse!

i'm assuming.

very nice.

:thumbsup:

Or a gangster. (Both costumes were all my own clothes. Actor, you know... ;-) ) :

that you were able to create both of those costumes.

We bobby pinned it up into a styrofoam cone, then painted white stripes with the hair dye in a can. Borrowed a wicked cape, wore a frilly necked nightgown (leggings underneath) and did my face up. I had a lot of fun!

no pictures?

It may be in the hands of my 1st husband, which means it has been destroyed or his parents have it. This was in 1993.

with swimming goggles on my head. The words "fallopian swim team" emblazoned on my shirt.

I was 12.

This year I might top it.... I will be even more of a villain than Catwoman ever was.

Cut a hole the shape of a television screen in a box that I painted black.
Painted dials and MAGNA-TOX on the front and wore it with my head iside.
It was fun but awkward to wear.

was a Batman costume that I got for my 7th birthday.

Up until I was about 14 or so, I really wanted a costume that looked like Bugs Bunny in "Hyde and Hare", but I never could find one.

Elvis.

What was cool is that she made me a horse, too. Unfortunately, no pictures were made of the costume and I played in it until I wore it out. It was sort of like this commercially made one:


No, I was never that cute.

made big fluffy ears and tail and cat feet/hands, had a big fake stogey, but my downfall was incorporating "drunken" into the costume idea. Let's just say that by sometime after midnight, I got an awful 'hairball' and was puking off the back porch for an hour or two. It actually made an apparently funny sight cause everyone else at the party thought it was hilarious. The downside is I ruined the costume I had worked so hard on, but... it was worth it sort of.

Sorry you ruined your costume, but your story is hilarious!!

Beginning of the night...


a bit later, and more "in character"....


Luckily no one captured the 'hairball' moment that I know of...

Hedgehog costume for my daughter


Never got pictures of th banana suit or the Pokemon Cubone costume

I'm impressed

:D

Really, really cute. :D

I was in 4th grade and when my Mom went into the basement to get my costume out to clean it before Halloween, it was found to have gotten wet beyond use.

Fortunately my Mom worked at a hospital, and a raid of the supply closet yielded operating room attire (gloves, surgical mask, etc).

My dress shoes and some fake blood from a friends vampire costume and--one mad Doctor;)

I wore a Cheney mask and a prison costume, and walked around carrying a little piggy bank with Halliburton stickers on it. Everybody in the office thought it was hilarious - even the VP, who was a right-winger. I didn't win our costume contest, tho', because he wouldn't vote for me. :P

Jeans, biker boots, chaps, white shirt, tie, suit jacket, briefcase, and a business card reading "Hells Accountants" in a play on the Hells Angels patch

Human Skin Suit.

The inhabitants of this planet are so easily fooled.

My mom made my costume -- it was blue though, very cute and my best friend's mom
made her the same costume out of the same fabric.

:wow:

It's the stockings and garters...

...and the rest of you... ;-)

The rest of me... not so much. You gotta KNOW I lingered over your costumes as well. :D

We could start our own Goth vampire club... B-)

Including resume picture:

It was my friend's idea. We took a rubber 'old witch' mask, cut holes out of it to make it look like it was patchwork.
Dear lord I was a sick fuck...

scariest thing I could think of

I got a picture from the internet of his face cut it out and glued it to similarly shaped cardbord for a mask
1st year wore a school boy uniform and a dunce cap
2nd year wore a toga with red cape with a card board shield with dollar sign painted on and plastic sword and helmet

It was fun to act out and get into character. My highschool teachers at my very hippie charter school were very impressed

Gore-encrusted scrubs. Kids in the Hall was still quite popular at the time. Big hit at the Castro. :D

and a really ugly green rubber mask, then placed a plastic toddlers chair on my head like a hat.

I told people I was a booger wiped under a chair.:freak: Funny thing is, I met my future wife for the first time at that party.

To this day, I still thank her for picking me that night.

My mom made me a Wilma Flintstone dress out of a sheet when I was little and I had a mollusk shell on a string for a necklace. You can make really good costumes that don't take a lot of work or skill.

My daughter was a U2 fan in junior high. One year she decided to go as MacPhisto which is a Bono character where he dresses in a gold jacket and pants, painted his face white and had red devil horns. I made her a gold shirt and pants and she wore some red horns and painted her face white so she was Margarita MacPhisto.