Thread: Your favorite costume?

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My favorite is from a few years ago - a skeleton bride before it got to be so popular. I found a vintage black nightgown with a tight, low-cut bodice & big flowy skirt and wore it with fishnets, high lace-up boots, and opera gloves. I teased my hair up big & poofy, and made a black tulle veil with a jagged hem and long black ribbons hanging from it. I painted my face like a skull, and painted a ribcage on my chest (interesting effect with the low-cut front).

Hubby that year actually shaved his head & painted it all white, to be my skeleton groom. No one believed it wasn't a skull cap, until they saw him afterwards.

What a great party that year... the guests TPed our trees *hee*

Victoria

5 of my friends and I dressed up like a six pack of BudLight about 2 years ago.. we put paper plates on our head spray painted them a shiney silver.. Wore black nylons, skirts with tanktops that had the budlight logo on them pust a string around ourselves to hold us all together like a six pack.

My favorite was my Bill Clinton/Monica costume. I started with a Clinton Mask. I bought a man's suit at thirft store (I'm a chick) and a blue dress. I also purchased a blow-up doll at an XXX store. I dressed as Clinton (I wore high chuncky boots inside my husband's size 13 dress shoes so I'd have height and man's feet) I wire-tied Monica around my waist so her head faced my crotch. When I walked or danced, her head would bob all around. People stopped in their tracks when I walked by. Girls (I guess they thought I was a guy) flocked to have their pictures taken with me! What a blast I had!

I think my favorite costume would have to be Cartman from South Park. I saw someone dressed up like Cartman and actually fit the part. It was one of the coolest things I ever seen in my life.

Well, last year was the first time I had dressed up for Halloween (this was for Guavaween in Ybor City, FL) since I was a kid...so I suppose it would have to be my favorite costume. I went as Neo from The Matrix...black t-shirt, black dress pants, wide black belt with silver buckle, dark shades similar to the movie version, and to complete the costume a custom made fully tailored trenchcoat that was almost exactly what he wore in the movie (the first movie that is)...

Interesting question, but not one I can answer with just one costume.

My favorite *movie* costume was Jason. I based it on Jason from F13 Part 6. Tan work pants, an olive drab army shirt, leather work gloves, and legitimately worn hiking boots (after five years of use and nary a polish, they had reason to look worn!). An army-style pistol belt, machete scabbard, and plastic machete completed the ensemble.

The mask was Dead Meat from Death Studios, with one of the standard plastic hockey masks available at that time, a tad modified to make it look more like Jason's.

You tell me how it worked out....

The next one is kinda semi-based on a movie -- specifically, Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death -- but since I look nothing like Vincent Price, I did some modifying again.

The robe is actually four pieces: the robe, a separate hood, a band (I don't know what else to call it) that wraps around the throat of the mask and fastens in back with Velcro, and another piece (I think some people call it a tabard) shaped like a V, front and black, that fits over the entire thing and fastens with Velcro on one shoulder. There's also a nylon rope belt dyed red and red Spandex gloves. I used Naturalizer driving gloves and removed the leather pieces with a seam ripper. Skin-tight fit, which was what I was after.

The mask was from Death Studios again -- Corpus Delicti. DS used to do repaints of theirs masks, provided it used colors they already had. I had them repaint Corpus so it looked freshly dead, with lots of blood in the open sores.

The result:

Close-up of the face:

Gotta do some scanning before I continue this....

Ooookay, what happened to my pics?


That's OK, I've reworked them to make the face look a bit less green, more like it actually looked:

Full-size:

Just the face:

Just a couple more and I'll stop boring you.

This was my attempt at Army of Darkness. Well... sorta.

I always knew what I wanted to do with my life....

"I shall call him... Mini-Mortuis!"


Incidentally, is there some reason why I couldn't edit my previous post?

Post editing has a time limit. I think it's a day or two.

Ya know, after seeing "Mini-Mortuis!" I just realized that 'Childhood Halloween Costumes' would be a good thread to start...

My favorite was Bride of Frankenstien. I wore my white high school graduation gown black chunky army boots and painted my face white with my real hair(very long at the time) hairsprayed (three cans of Auqa Net) upsidedown and painted. I had to recline the car seat and put my hair in first and ride laying down just to get to the party!!

Love the costumes Mortuis...especially the one from childhood!...so cute!