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Just curious,what was your favorite costume as a kid?
Man,I could name a few.
The Land of the Lost Sleestak costume,from Ben Cooper or Collegeville costume company was awesome,along with a slew of Vampires and other assorted creatures of the night.
But my favorite costume was a werewolf mask I had in the mid to late seventies that I won a grade school costume contest with.
Zany Zappers in the eyes,chains,fur.....it was a hoot.
What was our favorite costume when you were a kid?

I have the best memories of a pirate costume...aaarg!

For a mere $2.98 I bought a werewolf / bat? mask that was rather roomy inside, almost anyone could wear it and it had "hair" on it.
It was a classic mask, I think they sold alot of them over the next 15 years?
I'm not even sure it was made out of latex because it took many, many years to finally decompose.
The face was mouth-open with pointy teeth, the eyebrows were rather accented, it had big ears it was an immeadiate attention getter!
Just what ever mask should do.
It had a nose that looked like a fruit bat's but I thought it was a werewolf?
Hairy and scary, that was what it was no matter which it may have been?
Loads of fun!

I recall, still with a thrill, the late summer day in '77 when my mom came home from a store called Wizards, which was one of the SF Valley's first AD&D FantasyGoth kinda shops, WAY back in the 70's... anyway, she had taken my brother to buy some metal miniatures because he was into painting them.
At any rate, she had this box for me. WHAT?
An over the head mask of THE FLY, my absolute favorite movie during that era!
Thick black rubber, short scuzzy hair all over, the eyes were these gold lexan bulbous things which still had some kind of see-through-mirror finish, the little proboscus mouth thingy was all rubbery and when you moved your chin against a little rubber post inside the mask, it moved the proboscus around and it was just incredible!
Apparently it had been on deep discount from $70 to about $20, and she knew I loved the movie, so... lucky me!
I wore it for a week straight, and for Halloween the next two years. I made a fly claw hand/glove, and mom sewed up a lab coat. Heaven!
Memories, indeed! Good times and yes, loads of fun, just like Gym said!

Mike C.

I would have to say mine was back in '82(give or take a year), I got a full head wolf mask, and my friends mom made me a full body hairy suit, it was great.
I still have the mask to this day and still use it for various things. My one soon wore it this halloween for a whilie when he was in the dog kennel thrashing around out front.

Back in...'70? I made myself up as Mr. Hyde using Dick Smith's great "Famous Monsters" monster make-up magazine as a guide and won first place in a costume contest - that was pretty cool.
I remember in kindergarten my mom dressed me up in a prisoner costume (horizontal stripes - probably a collegeville number) with a skull mask and a great blown plastic rattling skull on a stick. Boy, did I feel scary in that costume, and I'm sure people were justifiably frightened by a 3 1/2 foot tall five year old with a plastic skull on a stick! I actually still have that skull, now decorated with black candle drippings - and it still comes out every Halloween...

I had a witch costume that my grandmother had made for me, I think I was around 7 or 8. It was this long black dress, with this four foot train, these long bell shaped sleeves and a huge collar that stood up around the back. She dusted the entire dress with silver glitter and used purple piping to outline the neck, sleeve openings and bottom of the skirt. (Of course, a huge pointed hat as well!)I wore it every Halloween till I grew out of it, it was comfy, it looked awesome and it was just plain fun to wear. It was the coolest looking costume, I wish I could've replicated it for adult use!

After that I'd have to say the storm trooper costume I had in college, now that thing kicked butt...

As a kid..the Superman was the thing. Gotta fly, gotta bend steel. NOOO! Don't make me wear a coat!!! Superman does NOT get cold!!
In 7th frade, I used a large box and made a Pepsi vending machine. Coin slot with a holder for coins, and a chute to drop a can of pepsi out of. Best one I ever did. But #%^& loser teens...your homeroom chose who to go be in the best costume contest. And so they went with the popular kid..crammed into a storebought Superman costume and acting silly. Ironic huh? Bastard.

All the ones I remember from childhood are the homemade ones:

The Mummy: a set of white long johns and 3 or 4 50-cent sheets from a garage sale, torn into strips. I was literally sewn into the costume, one wrap at a time. Mom, you're a saint.

The Robot: A cardboard box for the torso, a 2-gallon ice cream bucket for the head, all spray painted silver, miscellaneous nuts and bolts from the junk drawer glued on. I could barely move.

The Bat: Dressed in black, with bat wings: taped to a coathanger by way of a back harness, and made of black garbage bag and old arrow shafts (that really flapped, by pulling strings attached to a hinge at the top of each wing)

But curiously, the most vivid impression is from those flimsy vacu-formed styrene masks that went with the Ben Cooper costumes. I can smell it today, just thinking about them! I haven't a clue what the actual costume was, though.

The costume that I remember the most is when I was in 4th grade. I was really into the whole Star Wars thing and I decided I wanted to be a Jawa for Halloween. Of course it was up to my mom to figure out how to pull the whole thing off. She sewed a robe with a hood out of brown fabric. The opening of the hood had black fabric sewn into it that would cover my face and then I wore a band made out of cardboard around my head. On this band were two small lights that protruded out through the black cloth to look like eyes. She rigged up batteries to power the lights and even put a switch in there so I could just turn the eyes on when I was ready to go into a house. It was awesome. But to this day we still can't figure out why no one ever took any pictures of it! I never actually got to see what I looked like in it since I couldn't see out of it very well. I tried looking in the mirror but couldn't see well enough to really tell what I looked like. Everyone said it looked great though. Although when I went into a house of someone who wasn't familiar with Star Wars, they thought I was a monk. At that age I didn't know what a monk was. I reused the hooded robe for may Halloweens after that. Don't know what happened to it though. Haven't seen it in years.