Either as a kid or during adulthood
Not me, but my spouse. In 2008 as the economy was tanking, she went as a box of Franzia. Painted wardrobe box with 2 bladders of wine in there, she took days to paint the box like a real Franzia box. Thing must have weighed 20 pounds. Went to a parade and huge outdoor event and she was very popular. Those nozzles saw a lot of action, and were basically a public health danger 30 minutes into the night. The wine lasted hours and she ditched the box with some wine still in at some house party we passed.
I have a big bushy beard which somewhat limits my costume options if I’m going for any kind of accuracy unless I want to wear a mask
My two standby costumes that I dust off when I find myself with unexpected Halloween plans are
A lawn gnome. I dye my beard white, put on a blue ren faire sort of tunic, a wide belt, and a red pointy hat
And a Monty Python lumberjack. Red flannel shirt partially unbuttoned over a bra, suspenders, high heels, and a knit hat. I also have a big ol’ double bit felling axe I may trot out if the occasion warrants it.
I suppose I can also lose the heels and bra and just be a regular lumberjack.
But what fun would that be??
Plague doctor in 2020.
I had been a plague doctor one Halloween several years before the 'rona hit. I definitely dug the mask back out and went grocery shopping with it a few times during the height of the pandemic.
Ninja samurai, not quite a samurai but wearing more (cheap plastic or foam) armour than a regular ninja. 9 year old me had it so good. The sword almost lasted a whole 20 minutes of play
Actually i.take it back, 10 year old had it better, a homemade bespin outfit luke skywalker and I got to use my lightsaber all night
When I was 5 I wanted to be a chocolate chip cookie. I remember vividly driving up to a dumpster behind a big box store to find a single piece of cardboard big enough to make a me-sized cookie. Then I got all upset because everyone at school wanted to eat me 🤣
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“A bad night”
Handcuff on one wrist, dress shirt ripped, tie still on. Hair messed up, lipstick, blood, dirt, and no pants.
Went clubbing like that.
A vandal. A visibly hand-made empty egg carton, a baseball bat, a ski mask, and a candy sack. Felt pretty proud of myself with that one.
Zombie. At college I had a costume party coming up with few options. However I had a ripped sweatshirt and a bunch of plastic spiders and rubber snakes. A bunch more rips, some strategic dirt, and attaching the critters turned me into a passable zombie. I really liked the results.
Note: I wish I had the confidence to…… the winners at that party was a couple dressed in trash bags. Only trash bags
Back in colege we used to do a zombie pub crawl that was pretty epic. We’d start with 5-10 people each year, most of whom were makeup artists.
At every bar, people would ask to join, and we’d do their makeup! 1 year we ended up with 200 people, not including the 4 police officers who’d been assigned to our growing mass of the undead. They let us do their makeup, and were driving a runner car before and after us, as we no longer could keep contained to the sidewalks.
IRS agent, I had a clipboard and a plaid jacket. I looked the other way for an extra piece of candy. I came home with stuffed pillow case full sweets and a pencil, fuck those guys.
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The Spanish Inquisition from that one Monty Python sketch. I was 15.
