Thread: Most Epic Halloween Costume

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I'm sure that this has been discussed before, I can't seem to find any threads about it. But inquiring minds want to know: what is everybody's best/most epic/favorite Halloween costume? You know, that one costume that inspires your fondest Halloween memories. The costume you put hours of work into. The costume you paid $5 for at Walgreens. We're talking about the costume that made you FEEL Halloween. The costume that, years later, you (and everybody who knows you) still bring up in fits of nostalgic love.

For instance, when I was 13, I went out as Carmen Miranda, giant fruit basket hat and all... my family and friends still remember me hobbling down the street in my bright-red dress, 6-inch platforms, and pillow case full of candy. I spent weeks putting that costume together... finding just the right scarves, gluing plastic bananas, grapes, and oranges onto what turned out to be a very heavy hat. I have literally never gotten so many compliments on a costume... especially from older/elderly candy-givers - I seemed to evoke a lot of memories for them.

My most favorite costume was a tie between Vampire Avon Lady (a fun little thing I pulled together at the very last minute after not being able to find what I originally wanted) and Pile of Leaves (where I sewed garlands of leaves onto a skirt and hot-glued single leaves all over a black shirt.

Tell me about yours!

It's gotta be the bunch of grapes costume. I can't remember how old I was in a purple sweatshirt and purple sweatpants (you know.. with the elastic at the ankles) pinned with purple balloons. I thought I was so cool (till I couldn't sit down.)

The one that my folks still talk about is in 1999, I got a bleeding skull mask, dressed in black, and had bones sewn to my shirt. My fave costume is in 2008, I went as a dead phantom of the opera. I dressed in black. Had a vampire cape. I had a blackout mask, a skeleton overhead rubber mask over that, and a Hot Topic white phantom mask over that, and a black pinstripe fedora.

And some skeleton gloves.

I went as Jambi from Pee-Wee's Playhouse last year. It was amazing.

When i worked at Halloween haunt in 2009 I was in the asylum maze, my costume was bassiclly a patient covered in blood, and torn up black gloves. my mask looked like its nose got pulled down and nail gunned to the chin. XD

ofcourse thats not why i posted this reply, (cuz that costume wasnt really "epic")
While I worked at Haunt , there was this costume of a monster , it was HUGE!! it was called a wraith and it was bassiclly worn from the torso and shoulders up. it was about 9-foot-3 to 10 feet tall when it was worn. It looked so awsome in the dark and fog lol. If i find a picture of it I will post it

I was about 11 years old and I was a "Baseball Fury" from the movie "The Warriors". Face painted in grease paint, base ball helmet, bat, etc. A lady down the block (about 7 houses down) saw me walking up the sidewalk, screamed, and ran inside, saying.."No No No...I saw you on HBO last night just keep going!" I was thinking "What the Hell!?!?" and my dad was laughing his ass off.

Marc V.

I doubt anyone is familiar with the Cheech and Chong movies anymore (we were ummm, slackers growing up) but if you are, I was Alice Bowie one year.

Mine was when I was about 7 or 8. Neither of my parents did much for us on our halloween costumes other than take us to the discount store and let us pick out the plastic apron screenprinted with the costume and the mask with the elastic band... so it was a HUGE deal to me to get to borrow a neighbor's homemade clown costume that her kids had outgrown. It was a white fabric bodysuit with multicolored circles, pom-poms down the front, ruffles at the wrists and ankles and had the hat and collar ruff with rickrack and I was just awed at how cool it was and hated to take it off after TOT was over with.