Thread: Looking To Up The Ante On My Costume This Year - IDEAS

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Last year I was able to win several costume contests for my "grim reaper" costume. I Love the costume a lot and want to use it again this year, but want to add some more props or up the ante in some way.

Ideas?

I've attached a photo

Costume Contains:

• My Robe & Garb (Weathered) - Bought it at target
• A Staff I Built
• A skull I crafted & added laser (eyes) basically red filters embedded with flashlights
• A medallion with a tiny skull (with red eyes)
• Mask - A crypt keeper mask picked it up from spirits - and it was perfect for the costume.
• Bone hands - I found these at kroger & mixed with some cream / gray & white / yellow paint - I matched my entire hands this color
• Voice Box - Wired to mic that was inside my mask
• Skull kamas (I made these from a 8.00 staff Ifound)

Ideas?

You could go as the H1N1 reaper....keep telling people to wash thier hands...or else!

how about some rotting flesh(gelatin based perhaps) hanging from face or running down from eye sockets? you look a bit too clean and proper to me, cobwebs stuck to the robe...makeup around your eyes where they show thru the mask, same for hands, lower arms...if it wasn't a costume but you were the creature what would you look like over time?

An hourglass, dangling from the belt.

A crow or raven on your shoulder.

Shroud your face with black cheese cloth like a veil - give 'em a hint of the skull.

Make the robe, a big capital T of fabric, and wear a separate hood, called a cowl. Get a large one that covers the shoulders and the upper arms. The monk's look is what you want. Look for monk's robes with a cowl.

Get a real antique scythe, and decide - staff or scythe? Not both.

Give up both the scythe and staff and get a scepter and a crown.