Thread: What are the Good & Bad points of your costume last year?

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I had this idea to basically get those of us still haunting around the forums to have a bit of a costume discussion. Share Ideas, give input and suggestions based on what we're thinking of doing this year or even help with possible problems putting the outfit together.

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Last year

Costume:
Picture of Costume:
Successes:
Failures:
How i'd change things if i were to go back:


This Year

Costume Ideas:
Possible costume problems:


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So here is mine:
Last year

Costume: Zombie Amy Winehouse

Pic: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...43306_9287.jpg

Successes: Nobody imagined it's what I would do. The beehive and make up worked well.

Failures: I didnt have time to dye my Shirt to the same colour as my skin so it looked a tad odd at times. Ideally would have found a black dress to wear too.

How i'd change things if i were to go back: Clothing mostly, less blood on the hands.


This Year

Costume Ideas: Wolverine, a Terminator or one of the housewives from suburban shootout (Suburban Shootout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) - imagine Desperate Housewives meets the Godfather.

Possible costume problems: The choice i think largely depends on how much I get back into shape.

Wolverine - making the claws could be tricky, found a few tutorials... also it may just end up that im not wearing the claws half the night which IMO is a bit of a costume faux pas... I try to design my costumes so i can wear them from start to party end without losing chunks of it.

Terminator, largely this'll be weapon dependant and have good skin cut effects to show the endo/metal skeleton beneath. It should time nicely with the Terminator movie being released this year.

Suburban Shootout housewife. Not that many people know the show so I might spend half of the night explaining myself. This one is also weapon related... I'd probably do a few cardboard guns + clay knuckle dusters spray painted.

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so that's my rambling done, hopefully you'll guys will find this an interesting idea and join in

Costume : The Swinging Granny



Sucesses:

The costume is very realistic

The comments were very favorable all around including this forum

Everyone said that I make an excellent granny as well as a woman in this costume

Negatives:

The party I was supposed to go to got cancelled!

It takes a lot of time to get dressed.

I am terrible at putting on makeup though Granny does not need alot

The costume by my costume maker requies a 115" hoopskirt. Hard going up and down stairs and through small places.

Would change if I went back.

No hooped petticoat. No hoopskrt style. Difficult to put on. Had to use suspenders to hold up the hooped petticoat though now my costume maker has a permannt set for me and I can just slip into.

Possible Costumes:

Martha Stewart as a Victorian vampire using the Granny dress. (Martha wig, vampire cape lined with red satin, Victorian purse, vampire pendulum , long black gloves and Victorian hat)

Tryout photo with out makeup:



The Joker

Egyptian Pharoah

Interview with The Vampire; Use my golden French Aristocrat outfit with the cape, pedulum and fangs.

The negative on is the makeup. I do not have a lot of patience or experience with this.

The Costumer

Thanks for joining in The Costumer, your costumes look very professionally put together! I'd be very intrigued to see You as the Joker or a Pharaoh!

Originally Posted by Scry

Thanks for joining in The Costumer, your costumes look very professionally put together! I'd be very intrigued to see You as the Joker or a Pharaoh!

The Pharoah! yes!

Very little or no makeup!

TC

Last year

Costume: A very old ghost. I decided to be brave and sew an old school dress. Kind of along the lines of a Marie Antoinette costume, but not as elaborate.
Picture of Costume: Sadly, never completed.
Successes:I got the top half done!
Failures: It was lacking the skirt... perhaps this year. And I was too picky about wigs, I couldn't find a white wig I liked.
How i'd change things if i were to go back: Get my lazy bum off the couch and sew the whole thing.


This Year

Costume Ideas: The same or I can go back to my traditional witch or vampire
Possible costume problems: None, I shall overcome laziness and busy work schedules.

Last Year:

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Successes: Great wig!! One of the nicest I've ever worn. Costume showed off the girls which I hadn't done in a looooong time. Makeup looked good.
Failures: Shoes were a bit too big, and dagger kept falling out of my belt. Makeup took a long time to apply.
Changes I would make: Fasten the dagger to the belt, get better fitting high heels, not much really, I was overall pretty psyched about the whole outfit.

This Year:

Vampire.

Possible problems: I want desperately to have contacts as part of my makeup, but never having worn them, am a little apprehensive about the whole thing. Money is going to be an issue, too, because want contacts (not cheap) and at least one really cool Goth/Victorian costume piece (also not cheap). Oh well, looks like lots of overtime this summer for ol' Hooch!!!

Thanks for starting this thread, great idea!

whoa hooch i LOVE your costume... even though im a bit young in theory for Elvira i'm a huge fan, i imported the haunted hills dvd as we only have her first movie here in britain, i was also bought the Movie Macabre dvd boxset for my birthday so i am a huge fan. you did the make up perfectly!!!

I know what you mean with contacts, im considering them this year too, they make a great costume an unbelievable and unforgettable costume imo. Im gonna go to an opticians to see if im suitable. As when i was 14 i bought black ones - kinda cheap - and basically the white of one eye went blood red and had to have drops to help it heal. so im very wary but kinda wanting them all the same.

Last year

Costume:Undead Bast (version of the Egyptian cat-headed goddess)
Picture of Costume:


Successes:
>I put a lot of effort and experimentation into the mask and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. It was much more comfortable (and smaller) than the monstrosity in my avitar.
>I learned a lot about how not to treat certain fabrics when trying to self tailor (continued in failures)
>I managed to freak out teens and adults while most kids were cautiously friendly, which is the optimal reaction in my opinion. Of course, I hammed it up and hissed a lot more when I was around adults.

Failures:
>my tailoring abilities and knowledge of fabric properties are lacking (I found out cheesecloth likes to clump to itself, but at least it wasn't catastrophic)
> most of the costume was a rush job, and I didn't have time to add the scrims over the orbits. I have used scrims in the past to hide my own eyes and (especially) hide the fact that I'm wearing glasses underneath. However, a friend said it looks like a nightmarish version of the wolf in granny's clothing with my little oblong glasses visable, which made me quite happy, even if it was unintentional.

How Id change things if i were to go back:
>I wouldn't use cheesecloth again, rather I would find a nice flowing material that is easy to really rough up and age (which would involve some experimentation with potential materials).
>Set aside time each week to work on the costume at least a couple months out.

This Year
Costume Ideas: Hmm, I usually don't commit to a particular costume until late Summer, but the ideas I've had so far include an interpretation of Poe's Raven, a version of the reaper, the nightmare ringleader design I abandoned last Spring when I started thinking about the Bast costume, or whatever may stalk into my head by August.

Possible costume problems: Materials (getting the right costume element/price). That will probably decide which costume I go with.

that is one incredibly freaky Bast... I like the fact you took a recognisable concept that made it a little more twisted. and the outfit as a whole looks great!!

Never got to a costume for me last year. I was so busy right up to the ToTs that I just threw on a mask...

Next year...

If all goes to plan, and part of that is me learning to sew, then I will be a pumpkin reaper