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Title: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 14 Sep 2010, 23:47
Aight, dicks, I know it is way early for this, but I want a costume thread because I am doing this right and proper this year and I am making an awesome costume since I have been hella lazy the last couple of years. The problem is, I am not entirely sure what to do! I have a few ideas, but there are some problems with all of them that I am not sure how to work around, and I am pretty much ambivalent about almost all of them anyway.

1) Constellations. This is a pretty good group costume idea, I think, and would make a great masq set. I have access to faerie lights and fabric paint and other things I can make white and/or silver for most of my options. However, these might make better masquerade costumes, maybe, and I throw a masq thing for Mardi Gras every year, so I am undecided about using them now and coming up with something else for FebruaryMarch.
   a. Vulpecula (the fox). I have a fox tail and ears, but I am not sure what else the costume would consist of. Do I essentially make it like a furry?
   b. Cygnus (the swan). The costume shop down the road has nice quality and inexpensive white feather wings, but again, I am not sure what else to include.
   c. Corvus (the raven). Again with the wings, but in black. This might be the simplest one, because it would probably be something very similar to this (http://www.twygg.com/gallery/d/261-1/ravenQueen.jpg).
   d. Scorpio. A dominatrix-y thing in black (or white could work, I guess), it was the first idea I had on account of I am in the middle of "Legend of the Seeker" and the Mord (http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13300000/The-Only-Mord-Sith-To-Win-Richard-bridget-regan-13346071-1000-1257.jpg) Sith (http://www.sword-of-truth.com/sot/images/episode_stills/7264.jpg) are fucking hot. I could get some coathanger wire to flip that braid up over the back of my head like a scorpion tail with a stinger, too. The only problem is that I get the distinct impression that even if I had time to finish this (unlikely), and even if I made it all instead of buying it, it will be prohibitively expensive to try and do it in such a short time frame.

2) Sexy ChuckNorris.
Quote from: Meebo
[01:18] emilio: but see, "sexy chucknorris" is in itself an indictment of the current trend of making "slutty X" costmes
[01:19] emilio: and also a chance to dress as slutty chucknorris
But I still don't know where to get a hairy chest wig thing.

3) Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins. Specifically, her concept art (http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g85/302385/302385_1256887299_medium.jpg). I know how to make a glowy orb thing I could use, but it is complicated and requires me to know someone who can weld.

4) Something punny. Last year at Dragon*Con there was a guy walking around in a cardboard eggshell with tiny devil horns and a tail, which was pretty great. Someone this year had a babydoll strapped to their butt and sat on it a lot. One of my friends carried around a cereal box and a meat cleaver. I am also fond of the "grim rapper" concept, but I haven't yet hit on anything that I simply must do.

Anyway, input would be great! Also I will totally update with progress and construction photos once I get started.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 14 Sep 2010, 23:50
isn't "sexy chuck norris" kind of redundant?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jodizzle on 15 Sep 2010, 01:46
One of my friends is having a halloween themed party on the 1 October (just for somnething different).  But I wanted a costume I could wear as normal clothes so I am going as a very lazy Batgirl, derby hotpants essential.  Now I got the booty  may as well show it off when I'm not on skates!

This was no help to you at all Katie.  I apologise.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 15 Sep 2010, 02:47
And in furtherance of the "no help at all" aspect of this thread, I've been saying for years that this is the year I'm going to go as Gordon Freeman (as there is certainly a passing resemblance) but then I never get around to making the costume. 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 15 Sep 2010, 07:59
The constellation idea could be pretty cool if you got a few other people in on it. I see it being a really good group costume theme.

I personally am going to be Death (http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9116/640401-books_of_magicdeath_super.jpg) from Sandman. Hopefully people will not think I'm dressing as a goth or something, but I think enough people I know have read that comic.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Catfish_Man on 15 Sep 2010, 09:13
For the last 4 years or so I've wanted to go as a metaphor. Never figured out how to make a metaphor costume though.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ptommydski on 15 Sep 2010, 09:19
My suggestion was Sarah Palin, from this photo (http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID15166/images/sarah_palin_bikini1.jpg).
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Gemmwah on 15 Sep 2010, 10:38
I agree with Tommy.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 15 Sep 2010, 13:01
I personally am going to be Death (http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9116/640401-books_of_magicdeath_super.jpg) from Sandman. Hopefully people will not think I'm dressing as a goth or something, but I think enough people I know have read that comic.
I'm going as death, too, but I don't think I can pull off that top, so I'm going as Bergman's Death from The Seventh Seal. Going to tape pieces onto a chessboard and carry it around. See how many people get the reference.

I like the constellations idea too.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 15 Sep 2010, 13:56
I originally wanted to be Delirium, but I don't want to buy contacts. Which also counts out Desire as well, even though that would be the easiest character for me to pull off. But I really like death and I think if I get the look right, I think it'll work out nicely. I wish I could get some more people to do it with me, but I think a lot of my friends will be doing couple themed things.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Buttfranklin on 15 Sep 2010, 14:02
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/Xegar/badasshalloweencostume.jpg  I was this last year.

Probably going to use the mask again this year.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 15 Sep 2010, 16:31
I really want to be Peg Bundy from Married With Children, her being my female role-model and all, but I just don't know where I'd get a wig like that!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: De_El on 15 Sep 2010, 16:50
I am probably going to resort to something easy but awesome like Tom Waits or Nick Cave. If I go the Nick Cave route I can be Birthday Party-era Cave and be more Halloweeny.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 15 Sep 2010, 17:15
I want to go as communism. Anyone know where I can find a yellow hammer and sickle?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 15 Sep 2010, 17:22
If I go the Nick Cave route I can be Birthday Party-era Cave

And forego the opportunity to wear an amazing biker 'stache? Bah!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 15 Sep 2010, 17:24
I'm thinking about going as this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Pyg) this year


I've already found a mask (http://www.stockroom.com/Pink-Pig-Face-Mask-P3325.aspx) (NSFW) that could work (should probably have had that on there)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Avec on 15 Sep 2010, 17:25
The local blacksmith can serve all of your hammer and sickle needs.

Edit: Your source for getting that mask is pretty unsettling.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 15 Sep 2010, 17:27
I would prefer if they were plastic.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Avec on 15 Sep 2010, 17:30
What's going to happen when you need to harvest your grains? Plastic? I think not.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 15 Sep 2010, 17:33
Or harvest zombie brains? It is Halloween, after all.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Avec on 15 Sep 2010, 17:33
I see what you did there.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 15 Sep 2010, 17:54
If worst comes to worst I could make it out of wood
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: De_El on 15 Sep 2010, 18:09
If I go the Nick Cave route I can be Birthday Party-era Cave

And forego the opportunity to wear an amazing biker 'stache? Bah!

I have no idea whether I could grow an adequate biker stache.  Or fake an adequately receded hairline.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Melodic on 15 Sep 2010, 18:38
an undead clockwork orange
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 15 Sep 2010, 18:41
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/7880/11518915.gif)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 15 Sep 2010, 18:57
I may actually be doing something for Halloween this year, which means I have to come up with a costume idea too. A couple years ago my fiancee and I dressed as Scooby Doo characters. Those were some of my favorite costumes (especially hers; Daphne is a fox) because Scooby Doo is awesome.

Come to think of it, 80s cartoon characters are a goldmine for costume ideas. Too bad about Hollywood's recent obsession with making movies about old TV shows, hmph.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 15 Sep 2010, 22:00
I'm going to be dressed as ruyi dressed as kitty pryde

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/coolcathay/DSCN6169.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 16 Sep 2010, 00:05
We should all dress up as forumites who don't come around here much any more.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 16 Sep 2010, 00:06
It would be the saddest and creepiest Halloween ever.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 16 Sep 2010, 00:33
I can be kieffer because I am fuccin cool and I wanna climb rocks.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 16 Sep 2010, 01:13
You need to work on your doubleposting more.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 16 Sep 2010, 01:14
dogg
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: est on 16 Sep 2010, 03:51
dress as a slutty wookie!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ptommydski on 16 Sep 2010, 04:21
I think we can drop the "slutty" prefix now, on Halloween it's essentially a given.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 16 Sep 2010, 06:59
Would a slutty wookie be waxed?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 16 Sep 2010, 07:09
GISing "slutty wookie" got me, among other more disturbing things, a picture of Joaquin Phoenix

It also got me some adorable things:
(http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/chewie-thumb.jpeg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 16 Sep 2010, 07:13
So only on the torso, then.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 16 Sep 2010, 07:44
CONCEPT COSTUME:

i am being \m/ METAL \m/
mostly this involves making myself all silver and wearing a ratty slayer shirt
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 16 Sep 2010, 09:40
Zombiedude, right now any Halloween or costume or party store will have sickles and hammers as props for other costumes. They will be plastic, and you might have to cut the shafts down, but they will also be cheap and affordable. Yellow spray paint will then get you the desired colour. Alternatively, you can use cardboard and spray paint for +1 inexpensivity.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 16 Sep 2010, 17:03
I think we can drop the "slutty" prefix now, on Halloween it's essentially a given.

I have frequently been surprised at how dedicated women can be to wearing little clothing on Halloween. Where I live, it is always almost freezing on Halloween, and some years it has even snowed on Halloween. And yet if you go out, you will still see people in revealing outfits.

I'm glad that there are no societal pressures on me to wear skimpy clothing (and everyone around me should be too).
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Elizzybeth on 16 Sep 2010, 17:07
Halloween thread, maybe you can help me. 

I'm invited to a "zombie prom"-themed birthday party this weekend.  I plan to stop by a Goodwill and pick up some sort of prom-like dress that I can rip up and throw fake blood on.  But what else can I do?  How can I look properly zombie-ish?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 16 Sep 2010, 17:13
get a friend to compound fracture your forearm, load up on painkillers, and win the coveted "most dedicated costumer" award.

....then pass out in a pool of your own blood when the meds wear off and it dawns on you that not all your bones are inside you anymore


not necessarily in that order
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 16 Sep 2010, 19:07
I have frequently been surprised at how dedicated women can be to wearing little clothing on Halloween. Where I live, it is always almost freezing on Halloween, and some years it has even snowed on Halloween. And yet if you go out, you will still see people in revealing outfits.

I used to get hit on by women wearing barely anything on Halloween. That was awesome, I miss that.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 16 Sep 2010, 19:42
Halloween thread, maybe you can help me.  

I'm invited to a "zombie prom"-themed birthday party this weekend.  I plan to stop by a Goodwill and pick up some sort of prom-like dress that I can rip up and throw fake blood on.  But what else can I do?  How can I look properly zombie-ish?

now here's a question i can help with!
gelatin makes great fake scabs but it's SUPER sticky. make sure you don't have any hair where you put it... it's usually best to take a piece of tissue and coat it in the gelatin and then stick that to you.

    *Fake Scab Recipe:
    1 part Gelatin
    1 part water
    +Mix in small quantities, and apply to skin within 30 seconds. This will harden to form a decaying flesh texture. Do this before putting makeup on!
-what i did was put cotton balls in my cheek to puff it out while the stuff dried, then when you cheek is normal the stuff looks just disgusting all wrinkled up

    *Fake Flesh Recipe:
    2 cups Self-Raising Flour
    1 cup Salt
    4 teaspoons cream of tartar
    2 cups water
    2 Tablespoons cooking oil
    +First boil the water, and add everything but the flour. Then add the flour slowly, over low heat. Cook until it becomes a warm doughy ball. Form this into rotting flesh slabs, and adhere them to your face with liquid latex(ideally), or fake scab mix. This stuff has been tested, and it makes great scars, gashes, and decaying flesh

    *Other Useful Tips:
    + Toilet paper soaked in blood recipe works good as splattered guts. Use a little vaseline to make it stay in place.
    + green & gray eye makeup works best for coloring the skin. Also we’ve used oil crayon pastels. Don’t overdo it though, or you’ll end up looking more like the Hulk than dead.

personally what i do is after the scabs and gory stuff, i'll put a few choise bruises around... yellow, purple, violet, blue etc. make sure to make sure you have hella purple eye bags! use green near mucous membranes (eyes, nostrils, corners of mouth) as well as at the edges of your scabby grossness. then just make yourself pale all over it, then you might need to do a little more colors over it but i prefer the freshly turned look over the super green hulk zombies. i also rolled around in the dirt and climbed through a bush for accuracy. oh and for realistic clothes shredding, instead of a scissors, just take a steak knife and make the tiny lil holes, then rip!

obviously i mean, if you are not dirtpoor like me, you could just get liquid latex and costume make up but...
oh and corn syrup + chocolate syrup + red food coloring = extremely messy and gross and sticky fake blood that tastes good. excellent for putting in your mouth and then letting it drip down :) i hear it's not so sticky gross if you put dish soap in it... but i bet it doesn't taste as good.

OH lastly: that green gel food coloring stuff? put it in your mouth, give it a swish and spit it out. between your teeth and your gums are now green. as well as the inside of your lips. pretty cool looking i think
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 16 Sep 2010, 19:54
I too have resolved to take my costume seriously this year after lazing off for several years but I have no ideas yet. Suggestions are welcome, else I'll be back when inspiration strikes.

i got the idea to be kenny powers a week or two ago, but my hair won't be a mullet by oct 31st. next year!!!!

o/
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 16 Sep 2010, 20:03
If you want fake blood that's not sticky, cakes in crevices, and washes off relatively easy, try a mix of cocoa, water and red and yellow food colouring.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 16 Sep 2010, 20:13
I think we can drop the "slutty" prefix now, on Halloween it's essentially a given.

I have frequently been surprised at how dedicated women can be to wearing little clothing on Halloween. Where I live, it is always almost freezing on Halloween, and some years it has even snowed on Halloween. And yet if you go out, you will still see people in revealing outfits.

I'm glad that there are no societal pressures on me to wear skimpy clothing (and everyone around me should be too).

I hate slutty Halloween costumes. 1. They are slutty. 2. Most premade costumes are the slutty ones. 3. They are made for girls that are about 5'5" or have no torso, because I tried one on once (it was the only Alice costume they had and I was willing to alter it if need be) and the damn thing didn't even cover my butt. So unless I want to be a renaissance maiden (which if I did, I'd just buy something at the ren faire), finding costumes suuuucks. Which is why I am doing Death this year, because I already have most of the costume! I just need a black wig and an ankh.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 16 Sep 2010, 20:39
I have frequently been surprised at how dedicated women can be to wearing little clothing on Halloween. Where I live, it is always almost freezing on Halloween, and some years it has even snowed on Halloween. And yet if you go out, you will still see people in revealing outfits.

I used to get hit on by women wearing barely anything on Halloween. That was awesome, I miss that.
I just realized that this is my first Halloween that I probably will be out and about, not fat or ridiculously scrawny, and don't look actual, non Halloween scary. And also the first Halloween that I have a girlfriend, so I can't really enjoy the half-naked people. Funny how that happens.

Yeah, we have a costume store that I have been to a few times, and all of the costumes look like they wouldn't fit most people at all.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Patrick on 18 Sep 2010, 23:32
isn't "sexy Anal Prolapse" kind of redundant?

Oh man I love the word filter today
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 19 Sep 2010, 02:05
I know. Best use of that word filter ever.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 22 Sep 2010, 01:43
I think I have decided on doing Morrigan from Dragon Age for my costume. Any suggestions on how to do a small clear orb with a [cluster of] LEDs rigged inside?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: ALoveSupreme on 22 Sep 2010, 05:38
Gonna be Andy Kaufman, the Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion (whit underwear top and bottom, blue short workout shorts). 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 22 Sep 2010, 06:26
Katie, some craft stores sell clear plastic balls of various sizes that can open, so if you get some battery operated LEDs, that would work.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 22 Sep 2010, 19:05
So I'm participating in Novembeard as usual this year, which means I have to shave on October 31st.

I might bend the rules a bit and shave on the morning of November 1st so that I can incorporate very silly facial hair into my halloween costume.

Ideas?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 22 Sep 2010, 20:56
Sexy pirate.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 22 Sep 2010, 21:26
Sexy Billy Gibbons.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 22 Sep 2010, 22:08
Be realistic, guys.

Here's what I have to work with.

Pardon the nudity.

(http://i55.tinypic.com/2ni9zc9.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 22 Sep 2010, 22:14
Okay, then. Normal Billy Gibbons.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 23 Sep 2010, 00:01
Gene clearly the easiest Halloween costume option for you is Robert Downey Jr.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 23 Sep 2010, 00:09
That actually could work. Young or recent? More recent, he would need a bit of hair dye to get the salt and pepper beard thing going.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 23 Sep 2010, 04:01
Yeah, I've been told I look like Iron Man before.

But then I wouldn't really be dressing up.

I was considering Charlie Chaplin's tramp character. Ill fitting tailcoat, bowler hat, cane, ironic Hitler 'stache.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ptommydski on 23 Sep 2010, 04:43
Robert Downey Jr has played Chaplin and Iron Man in a film. Weird eh?

Groucho Marx would be way better though.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 23 Sep 2010, 05:59
For a long time I've though that the best Halloween costume would be to just dye your hair and wear coloured contacts. Not freaky colours, as close to natural colours as possible but utterly different from your current hair/eye colour. You'd be you, only with completely different colouration.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ptommydski on 23 Sep 2010, 06:30
I draw the line at Blackface.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 23 Sep 2010, 12:22
For a long time I've though that the best Halloween costume would be to just dye your hair and wear coloured contacts. Not freaky colours, as close to natural colours as possible but utterly different from your current hair/eye colour. You'd be you, only with completely different colouration.

Or buy a fake mustache or goatee and call yourself the evil version
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: ForteBass on 23 Sep 2010, 21:32
We should all dress up as forumites who don't come around here much any more.

I call dibs on ForteBass.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 23 Sep 2010, 23:56
Chuck! We have missed you. What have you been up to? Should I buy this shirt (http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=15632) and send it to someone in Oz?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 24 Sep 2010, 15:54
No. It is a horrible shirt.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: LittleKey on 24 Sep 2010, 16:48
For a long time I've though that the best Halloween costume would be to just dye your hair and wear coloured contacts. Not freaky colours, as close to natural colours as possible but utterly different from your current hair/eye colour. You'd be you, only with completely different colouration.

That is a really good idea! and it gives me the idea to go as the vegan guy from Scott Pilgrim. Where do you get colored contacts anyway?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 25 Sep 2010, 05:45
Any place that sells contacts, usually. But you may have to get an appt to get fitted for them.

Re Australia shirt: I like the idea, I hate the execution. The colors and font are horrible, but I'm sorry Australia, you do kind of look like a gorilla in a fez now...
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 29 Sep 2010, 20:12
I just did a search for "bee wings" because, well, I needed a picture of bee wings. You would not believe the number of sexy bee halloween costumes there are.

Although in many cases describing them as bees is really stretching it.

I mean seriously?

(http://www.3wishes.com/images/sexystinger-jv.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: tania on 29 Sep 2010, 20:20
if you'll excuse me for just a second, i need to go set fire to the earth now
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 29 Sep 2010, 21:17
... Where are her wings?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 29 Sep 2010, 21:19
They should include a fake tattoo of a tramp stamp with wings. It would fit pretty well.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Liz on 30 Sep 2010, 07:52
The part of her body most covered is her legs.

I think something is wrong here.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 30 Sep 2010, 14:43
Fine. Ladies, buy some fancy lingerie and go as a Victoria's Secret model.


(Read: No, don't actually do that. It's a terrible idea. Especially if you're wearing a thong.)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 30 Sep 2010, 16:13
Especially if you are somewhere cold. Frostbite isn't sexy.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 30 Sep 2010, 16:33
last year my friend went as hurricane katrina which he accomplished by making a tornado-like structure around himself with coathangers and toilet paper+cotton balls.

then he just got blacked out and wrecked peoples' stuff. The illusion was complete.


I think he's gonna try to be the gulf oil spill this year. not sure how he's gonna do that one, but I'm pretty sure I won't want to be near it.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: tania on 30 Sep 2010, 16:34
it's not women wearing revealing clothing i am opposed to at all, i think women (and men i guess) can wear whatever they want. the whole neverending "sexy ______" trend in halloween costumes just bums me out because i think halloween is for the most part a really fun venue to express your originality or creativity one day every year through the use of a great costume idea and it's disappointing when more and more people choose to opt out of anything original or thoughtful in favour of just appealing to the lowest (and possibly sexist) common denominator, which is basically wearing as little clothing as possible because hey, everyone likes naked women, can't go wrong there. if you want to be naked that's fine but man, why not at least try to be creative and interesting about it once in a while or something.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: allison on 30 Sep 2010, 16:47
I used to make clever costumes but then realized no one got them sooooo slutty Snow White Sailor Jupiter it is!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: tania on 30 Sep 2010, 17:28
Ah, yes the sexy bee costume is such a tired old cliche.

i followed joe's suggestion and google image searched "bee halloween costume" (no mention of gender) and yeah, it kind of is. it's actually really challenging to find a costume on that page that doesn't feature an incredibly revealing outfit and high heels.
again, i'm not going to tell people what to wear or do with themselves but you can only give something so much benefit of the doubt before finally admitting that it really is part of a major and occasionally pretty annoying pattern.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 30 Sep 2010, 18:36
I'm not complaining about the cliche (not at the present moment anyway) and certainly not about the revealing outfit (on the first page I was reminiscing about girls wearing even less than that) but about the sheer crappiness of that costume. What the hell are those things on her head? And what's with the leg things? I'm pretty sure that costume was 100 frickin dollars. If not that one, then several other equally crappy ones were that expensive.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Papersatan on 30 Sep 2010, 19:25
I think the issue for me is not how well the costume is made, or how revealing it is but that it only represents a bee in only the vaguest of ways.  She could just as well be a Steelers cheerleader.  I love Halloween and I love costumes and I think that the first thing your costume should do is convey what you are supposed to be.  If it is also sexy more power to you.  In this case what she wanted to be for Halloween was sexy the "bee" aspect is secondary.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 30 Sep 2010, 19:35
You know what would be interesting? Wearing that bee lady costume, and then getting a bunch of small dogs and dressing them up in dog bee costumes (they exist) and getting them to follow you around everywhere. You'd be the queen bee!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 30 Sep 2010, 19:37
That is a cute idea! I wish I had dogs now...

If she had wings, it wouldn't fail so bad. But she just looks silly as is. There are ways to be sexy while having a real costume at the same time. I think my favorite "sexy" costumes are the beer maids. Just say yes to tiny lederhosen.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 30 Sep 2010, 19:58
The thing that the beer-ladies wear is a dirndl, not lederhosen. That's what the stereotypical oktoberfest/bavarian man wears (or Jim Morrison, considering that it just means leather pants).

Or maybe you knew that, and were saying you like men in tiny lederhosen. Can't tell.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Carl-E on 02 Oct 2010, 15:37
God, I haven't done Halloween in years.  I just pass out candy, now.  "Old guy in the big dark house" is scarey enough, I suppose. 

But when I was in college, we went for puns at the halloween parties.  One year I had a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Emmet Kelly going, but with horns on the derby and a tail made from a stocking leg with a fuzzy tuft coming out from under the tailcoat.  I was a bum steer. 

One friend was a furry with a syringe on top (spoonerize it). 

There was the Celt, all in blue body paint and a loincloth, with a sack of treasure - he was the "Wode warrior from beyond plundered Rome".  That one was a stretch...

And the guy in fatigues, with the crocheted afgans strapped like bandoliers across his shoulders, and a toy rifle.  The Afghan freedom fighter.  It was the 80's...

One year I dressed up as Pinnochio, with vampire punctures on my neck.  My girlfriend (now wife) dressed as a female vampire, and we replaced her fangs with little twist drill bits. 

She was a sapsucker...

God, there were so many more.  The Freudian slip, the memory jogger, the Gypsie Rosalie, ...

There was the John Wayne lookalike.  With vampire fangs.  His line was, "You heard of The Duke?  Well, [smile, show fangs] I'm the Count!"

Get creative, guys.  It doesn't take much.  If I can find a pic of my greatest costume, from grad school, I'll post it. 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: vegkitkat on 02 Oct 2010, 16:33
So I think I have my costume figured out: Jessie from Team Rocket.  Where can I find cheap black opera gloves?

Now I just need an awesome place to wear it.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 02 Oct 2010, 17:28
Get creative, guys.  It doesn't take much.  If I can find a pic of my greatest costume, from grad school, I'll post it. 

I sewed a fake apple on top of a winter hat, got one of those cheap arrow-through-the-head gags, and put it under the hat.

William Tell's other son.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jodizzle on 02 Oct 2010, 20:30
I'm not going to lie, I wore underwear as pants for my Skanky batman costume on Friday night.  And I looked awesome!  (no photos though I don't think)

But I pretty much always wear underwear as pants now because derby has given me a hella great ass so whatevs.  I have had to buy new underwear to wear under my derby pants because they are smaller than pretty much all my underwear.

Derby is the BEST sport.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 03 Oct 2010, 10:02
if it was socially acceptable i'd walk around naked everywhere too (not in the winter) and i am roughly spherical-shaped. skip the part about having a conventionally attractive body and i'd sorta agree with tommy. i'd say it's more if you're comfortable with your body regardless of the shape it's in. it's a body! everybody's got one, it maybe shouldn't be that big of a deal i guess.

however, i'm pretty sure this argument isn't really about letting people wear skimpy clothes if they wanna, it's expectations of this particular holiday. for some people it's an excuse to wear skimpy clothes, for others a chance to showcase their wit, and others want it to be scary. whatev!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 03 Oct 2010, 14:23
Or maybe you knew that, and were saying you like men in tiny lederhosen. Can't tell.

That too. But only if they have nice legs.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 03 Oct 2010, 14:34
Why put any conditions on it? Just leave it at "wear whatever the fuck you want, but realize sometimes people will judge you because of what you are wearing."
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 03 Oct 2010, 15:34
So it's basically like every other day?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 03 Oct 2010, 17:10
Yes!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: nobo on 03 Oct 2010, 17:13
Costumes purchased today. I will be a gorilla, Stacey will be a banana. Halloween plans = handing out candy at the Detroit Zoo.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 03 Oct 2010, 17:34
I think probably some of the attraction to Halloween is that it lets people try stuff that they would be afraid of wearing otherwise, because you are supposed to look ridiculous on Halloween. I know I sure as hell wouldn't be wearing a wimple most days (which reminds me I still need to find the stuff for my Death costume).
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 03 Oct 2010, 19:23
Costumes purchased today. I will be a gorilla, Stacey will be a banana. Halloween plans = handing out candy at the Detroit Zoo.

That sounds like fun! Also clever costuming.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 03 Oct 2010, 19:54
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is body paint.  Why be half naked when you could be all naked and covered in a thin sheen of paint?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: celticgeek on 03 Oct 2010, 20:47
I recommend woad.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 03 Oct 2010, 21:51
Halloween costume: Hipster
Accomplished by wearing thick framed black glasses with no lenses, drawing fake bird tattoos and fancy writing things about love and being alone and music on me, and talking to people about bands they've never heard of. Also making a PBR can sleeve and probably wearing plaid and skinny jeans. With an ironic wristband.
If not for work, I'd grow a soul patch, ironically.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Drill King on 03 Oct 2010, 21:56


I was supposed to be Robin in a batman and robin combo but my batman abandoned me for being a montreal cop(ahhhhh).

now I'm out an idea, should I just wear (http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj156/Sneakers_King/STARGIRRRL.jpg) again?

I think that outfit was better when I had long hair, but it's a good fall back.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 03 Oct 2010, 23:14
You could be the villain from Ghostbusters.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Neskah on 04 Oct 2010, 01:05
Going to my first Halloween Party in years. I'm self concious, live in a cold climate and hate the cold and just don't do skank. Wanted something comfy so I'm thinking Red from Hoodwinked wil be fine..

Unless i do the double theme with the boy, in that case Zoe and Francis from L4D,

Plus I can walk around with a Shot Gun
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jodizzle on 04 Oct 2010, 03:48
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is body paint.  Why be half naked when you could be all naked and covered in a thin sheen of paint?

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/ebony_willow/mudkip1.jpg)
I had to GIS 'sexy mudkip' to find this image again and it is something I truly regret.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 Oct 2010, 11:12
I was supposed to be Robin

The only female Robin was Stephanie Brown and she really doesn't look anything like you.

Frank Miller Year One Selina Kyle would be an obvious choice though, especially considering you already think you're a cat.

Tommy, how could you forget the Dark Knight Returns' Carrie Kelly?  She was being a female robin before it was cool, though I did not like her Catgirl outfit in the sequel.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 Oct 2010, 11:35
I know, if you really want to go as a super hero go as Disco Glame Dazzler
(http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//news/Guest%20Lecturer/78/dazzler.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 04 Oct 2010, 11:53
Yes.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Coward on 04 Oct 2010, 13:04
You can't be a hero(ine) over Halloween - villainy is what it's all about.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 04 Oct 2010, 17:25
She's a criminal.

At least according to the fashion police.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 04 Oct 2010, 19:41
Since I last posted in here I shaved off all the facial hair and got a Jens-hawk sort of deal.

Ideas?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 04 Oct 2010, 20:13
Be Jens.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 04 Oct 2010, 20:21
Or a limp bizkit fan.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 04 Oct 2010, 20:45
No go, I'd say.

(http://i55.tinypic.com/16k8i2v.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 04 Oct 2010, 20:54
Here's a suggestion: Don't be a guy in his underwear.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 04 Oct 2010, 20:56
Regrow the stache, be Sir Dov Charney.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 04 Oct 2010, 21:28
JOHN GALLIANO BE JOHN GALLIANO
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 04 Oct 2010, 22:57
Change your name to Gene Pop-Punk.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 05 Oct 2010, 05:44
Here's a suggestion: Don't be a guy in his underwear.

harsh dude
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Drill King on 05 Oct 2010, 08:34
Augh I want a pair of those so fucking bad. Really really.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 05 Oct 2010, 22:34
Honestly Dov Charney is not a bad idea.

How on earth could I be John Galliano?

Augh I want a pair of those so fucking bad. Really really.

15% off if you buy three pairs.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Wasteroo on 06 Oct 2010, 14:05
Gene you pull off those underpants with aplomb and make me want to buy some for myself
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Liz on 06 Oct 2010, 16:23
Good: There is a pirate wench costume on sale at a thrift store for $20, normally $120.

Bad: I was a pirate last year.

WHAT DO I DOOOO.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 06 Oct 2010, 16:30
Does it use the same colors as the costume last year?  If not, GO FOR IT!!!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 06 Oct 2010, 16:34
Don't do it! Think of something awesome instead that nobody else will be and make a costume out of stuff!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Liz on 06 Oct 2010, 18:21
But I am not creative! I have been trying to come up with awesome costume ideas since last Halloween and I have not yet succeeded. It is just not something I can do. :(
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 06 Oct 2010, 18:42
Dude, Liz, I have been inspired, but it took until tonight and I have been wracking my brain for good ideas every day since the end of August. When in doubt, go for a character. At least, that is what I have found.


I am scrapping Morrigan (http://www.templates.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Dragon-Age-Trailer-Morrigan-by-Viki-Yeo.jpg) and going for Mad Moxxi (http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/borderlands-mad-moxxi.jpg) instead.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 06 Oct 2010, 18:54
That's Liz!

But I approve of Mad Mooxie.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 06 Oct 2010, 19:03
My bad. My browser was glitching.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 06 Oct 2010, 19:07
For a sec I thought you meant Morrigan (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Morrigan%28Darkstalkers%29.png)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 06 Oct 2010, 19:40
I mean, I could do that too, but I don't really want to make wings, and also I ain't really got enough tit for either Morrigan, so
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Caleb on 06 Oct 2010, 20:31
Morrigan is best left on my Sega Saturn where she belongs.  I don't think anyone can really pull off that costume.

My workplace will probably have some lame theme that doesn't have a proper costume choice again.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 06 Oct 2010, 21:24
Morrigan is best left on my Sega Saturn where she belongs.  I don't think anyone can really pull off that costume.

Actually, I think it would be very easy to pull off :t-rex:
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 07 Oct 2010, 01:33
My workplace will probably have some lame theme that doesn't have a proper costume choice again.
19th century business tycoons.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 Oct 2010, 04:28
I went to work in a costume one year and I was literally the only person when I arrived. A couple of other people came dressed up later but boy did I feel awkward.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: allison on 07 Oct 2010, 05:19
Last year I dyed my hair almost black to be Snow White and when I went into the office everyone asked me why I'd dye my hair but not wear my costume! It was very difficult to explain that my costume was definitely not office appropriate, especially considering that my mother worked down the hall.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 07 Oct 2010, 05:24
I went to work in a costume one year and I was literally the only person when I arrived. A couple of other people came dressed up later but boy did I feel awkward.

I've done that before on purpose just to see how many other people would even react. As in, I put on a scary mask in the morning, go to work like that, and then make absolutely no reference to it ever. I was living in NYC so I had to take the subway; nobody else was wearing costumes to work, maybe 2 people in the packed rush hour train so much as grinned. I was working at a university so several students laughed about the mask, but none of the staff there appeared to notice.

I can't speak for your workplace of course, but in general I find this is one of the many situations that fall under the principle "it's only awkward if you think it is."

It was very difficult to explain that my costume was definitely not office appropriate, especially considering that my mother worked down the hall.

Explain that someday you wish to be a politician:
http://gawker.com/5657412/9-pictures-of-a-politician-sucking-a-dildo-attached-to-her-husbands-nose
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 07 Oct 2010, 15:41
Gene you pull off those underpants with aplomb and make me want to buy some for myself

I almost posted this (http://i53.tinypic.com/2n008b9.jpg) picture instead.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 07 Oct 2010, 17:18
So there's a guy at work who literally only owns one tie.  And he wears it, every. single. day.

(It's   this one (http://www.josbank.com/menswear/shop/Product_11001_10050_102709) in red, by the way)

Anyway, I have the same tie--which naturally I no longer wear-- but I'm going to on Halloween and just say that I'm him.  I don't think I could be more passive aggressive and shitty if I tried.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 07 Oct 2010, 17:45
I am so freaking excited that I will have trick-or-treaters this year at our new house. I'm even taking off work that night (at a haunted trail) to be home and give out candy. I'm not having any great costume ideas though, so I might just wear the Flo (the Progressive Insurance Girl) costume that I made last year. Brilliant alternatives?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 07 Oct 2010, 19:12
I went to work in a costume one year and I was literally the only person when I arrived. A couple of other people came dressed up later but boy did I feel awkward.

I want to wear a mask to work, but I think it would be frowned upon.  When I worked at the sushi restaurant they fully supported wearing a costume to work, they would even pay for some of your outfit.  Sadly I didn't make it that far.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 07 Oct 2010, 19:12
baindhe: Zombie Flo.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 07 Oct 2010, 19:58
So there's a guy at work who literally only owns one tie.  And he wears it, every. single. day.

I can kind of sympathise. I mean, in Australia at least it's almost impossibly to buy a tie that isn't plug-ugly.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Zingoleb on 07 Oct 2010, 20:03
http://gawker.com/5657412/9-pictures-of-a-politician-sucking-a-dildo-attached-to-her-husbands-nose

Her name


is Krystal Ball.




This is a joke, right?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 08 Oct 2010, 03:16
As one of the forum's official Virginia residents, I can assure you that it is not.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 08 Oct 2010, 04:43
Last year and the year before, I wore my elf ears to work with normal clothes. When my hair is long enough, it covers my ears so you can't see the seams and since they have makeup on them that matches my skin tone, they can be convincing if you aren't looking to closely. I weirded so many people out, it was hilarious. "Are those your real ears?" "What?" "Your ears, they're huge!" "Well that's not a very nice thing to say."

I would wear them to work the Friday before Halloween, but nobody comes in my lab in the mornings.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 08 Oct 2010, 05:26
So there's a guy at work who literally only owns one tie.  And he wears it, every. single. day.

Maybe in his house he has an entire room of identical ties and he is all 'I am so glad I managed to find a tie that is absolutely perfect for me, it makes me a happy man'.

Maybe you will destroy him. Leave him but a shell. He will hang himself alone in his room of ties, all worthless now.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 08 Oct 2010, 05:28
Geezus... If I had that kind of power that would be pretty rad.

I'm all in now for sure.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Carl-E on 08 Oct 2010, 13:31
So there's a guy at work who literally only owns one tie.  And he wears it, every. single. day.

Maybe in his house he has an entire room of identical ties and he is all 'I am so glad I managed to find a tie that is absolutely perfect for me, it makes me a happy man'.

Maybe you will destroy him. Leave him but a shell. He will hang himself alone in his room with one of the  ties, all worthless now.

FYP
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Melodic on 09 Oct 2010, 02:37
I really wanna be Allen Ginsberg with a black eye ("beat poet") but I'm not really sure how to pull him off. I am shite with costumes guys help me outtttt.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Carl-E on 09 Oct 2010, 10:50
Unless you got the beard, you can't do a Ginsberg.  But you can do a recognizable "beat" character by dressing in jeans and a black turtleneck, beret and old style sunglasses (Ray-Bans). 

Then add the bruises.  Of course, the outfit will cover most of the places you could put bruises.  And people will think you're emo or goth or a ninja or something. 

So, keep thinking! 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 10 Oct 2010, 10:43
But you can do a recognizable Steve Jobs by dressing in jeans and a black turtleneck,
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: LeeC on 10 Oct 2010, 13:19
I'd like to be Finn from adventure time, but I feel like it's been done, but the fun part would be figuring out how to go it without any money.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 10 Oct 2010, 15:13
Okay, so I have a pair of green boots and this onepiece:

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/il_430xN153257662.jpg?t=1286748604)
(http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.153257556.jpg)


It's more green than blue irl, should I get a crazy red wig, green tights, some fabric/plastic ivy leaves, possibly some green gloves and be Poison Ivy?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 10 Oct 2010, 15:13
Wait, you bought that? I had it favourited and was going to buy it!
Grrrr.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 10 Oct 2010, 15:15
Haha, I'm sorry!

Also you have great taste, I loooove it.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 10 Oct 2010, 15:16
Yes! Yes you should definitely do that!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 10 Oct 2010, 16:23
Oh hey, looks like I also have green tights and a silver bracelet with tons of leaves on it, this costume is pretty much meant to be!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 10 Oct 2010, 22:14
Yes.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Alex C on 10 Oct 2010, 22:17
Wait, you bought that? I had it favourited and was going to buy it!
Grrrr.

God forbid you wear the same outfit to the same website.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 10 Oct 2010, 23:29
Well it's vintage, so I got the only one. Doubt we'd care otherwise!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 11 Oct 2010, 02:09
Otherwise I'd be all 'F yeah Kris, your swimsuit fashion is awesome' instead of being grumpy.


(Kris your swimsuit fashion is still awesome)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 11 Oct 2010, 08:26
For some reason it took me like ten minutes to see it wasn't a dance leotard.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 11 Oct 2010, 08:41
I thought it was a leotard, too, until they said something. Either way, it's pretty rad.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 11 Oct 2010, 17:25
So I got a red cloak to go with my hammer and sickle. Now to actually get a hammer and sickle.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Oct 2010, 19:38
I still never went through with my idea from last year! I need a black cape, black and white facepaint and a witches hat:

(http://i43.tinypic.com/2a5cfv6.jpg)

(I bought stuff last year but the hat was too small and the cape was a chuffing binbag so I said "fuck it!" and did zombie instead.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 11 Oct 2010, 19:40
I don't know if I'm going as Death or not anymore. But I am going to the Ren Fest this weekend so maybe I'll get something there...
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 11 Oct 2010, 19:48
Oh, man. That would be an awesome costume. Except nobody I know would recognize it.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: LeeC on 11 Oct 2010, 20:32
anyone know a great place to get a long hot pink dress for cheaps?  My girlfriend wants to go as princess bubblegum.

(http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/pics/8/4230/how-to-draw-princess-bubblegum.jpg)

hell even a short dress with the puffy shoulders would work. could make it a bit skimpy.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 11 Oct 2010, 20:53
You can make puffy sleeves by sewing elastic (or ribbon and tying it) in the base of some longer sleeves and pushing them up.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Elizzybeth on 11 Oct 2010, 23:35
I bought a long, hot pink dress actually pretty similar to that for $10 at Goodwill (for zombie prom purposes).  Obviously not a surefire bet, but... Goodwill is worth a try.  Between bridesmaid, prom, and quinceanera dresses, there is a remarkable surplus of little-worn formal wear at thrift stores.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Barmymoo on 12 Oct 2010, 06:33
I am not doing Halloween this year but I will be helping out with a Light Party for the children at my church so I guess I'll be dressing up for that! Something cute and non-sexy will be appropriate, I feel. Cat? I like cats. I have cat ears already, just need some brown-copper clothes to go with them.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Liz on 12 Oct 2010, 16:01
So I have more or less decided that I am going to go as Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus. I will have to go shopping tomorrow to try find a vintage-y dress to wear, then I will make some iron-on transfers (stars and moons, spaceships, or animals?) to put on it. Then I need a stuffed lizard and maybe a model school bus to carry around.

Ideas? Thoughts?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 12 Oct 2010, 16:47
Oh god Sexy Ms. Frizzle.

My childhood is aroused.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 12 Oct 2010, 16:56
I suggested a 'sex ed' themed dress, but noooo.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 12 Oct 2010, 16:58
Ms. Frizzle > sexy Ms. Frizzle > sex ed dress
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Liz on 12 Oct 2010, 17:00
Not the sexy version. Just classic Ms. Frizzle, straight up.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 12 Oct 2010, 17:02
Mrs. Frizzle is already pretty sexy to me
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 12 Oct 2010, 17:07
That's because science is sexy!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: LeeC on 12 Oct 2010, 18:29
find a dress with watermelons on it,
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 12 Oct 2010, 18:47
I think I'm reprising my costume from 14 years ago and going as snow white. but I'm going to make it myself. not very funny/interesting but she is my favorite princess so whatever
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 12 Oct 2010, 18:53
so unless I think of something better I am probably just gonna be Dexter for halloween, all I need is a thermal, cargo pants, and maybe a baby
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 12 Oct 2010, 19:26
C'mon, someone go as this guy

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/968/bearknifeman.jpg)

or him
(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6343/brickfrog.png)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 12 Oct 2010, 22:28
now I'm considering wonder woman... opinions? I <3 comic books...
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Papersatan on 13 Oct 2010, 07:32
I think Steve and my best friend and I are going as Castle Crashers:
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/566/castlecrashers.png)
(I think, Steve has not committed)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Gemmwah on 13 Oct 2010, 09:45
oh my gosh greatest idea
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 14 Oct 2010, 06:26
Castle Crashers

Go as The Hextalls and just sing "We Are The Castle Crashers" all night.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: paintbrushesRmyweapons on 17 Oct 2010, 20:05
I am going as Zombie Sarah Palin. I am going to have little flags stabbed into me. It will be awesome
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Cartilage Head on 18 Oct 2010, 00:00
I think I'm going to get some white contacts and go as Nega-Cory.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 18 Oct 2010, 00:03
I'm going to make a point of punching every Scott Pilgrim I see in the dick this Halloween.

Unless they are actually wielding a Rickenbacker 4003 in which case all sins are absolved.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 18 Oct 2010, 07:42
Should I be Daria for Halloween, yes/no? Or should my roommate be Daria and I be Jane?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 18 Oct 2010, 10:51
I'm going to make a point of punching every Scott Pilgrim I see in the dick this Halloween.

Unless they are actually wielding a Rickenbacker 4003 in which case I'll punch them in the dick and give the Ric to Shane.

fyp!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 18 Oct 2010, 11:06
I say go for it Linds.  It would be a pretty easy costume to get/pull off
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: allison on 18 Oct 2010, 11:33
Should I be Daria for Halloween, yes/no? Or should my roommate be Daria and I be Jane?

YES YES YES YES
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: sean on 18 Oct 2010, 12:31
i get to be trent!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 18 Oct 2010, 12:34
....Reznor?

...from Swingers?

...Klatt?!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 18 Oct 2010, 12:37
Sean, if you go as Trent, you have to come visit. Yup.

Shane, obviously you must watch more Daria.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Papersatan on 18 Oct 2010, 12:38
Trent is one of only two cartoons I have ever had a crush on. 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 18 Oct 2010, 12:44
so i changed my mind and now i really want to be ramona flowers for halloween
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 18 Oct 2010, 13:06
Sean, if you go as Trent, you have to come visit. Yup.

Shane, obviously you must watch more Daria.

Oh durr. I forgot that dude was named Trent.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: greenMonkey on 18 Oct 2010, 13:45
I will be wearing lederhosen for halloween.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Mynah on 18 Oct 2010, 19:16
 I've decided I'm going as zombie Aerith (from Final Fantasy VII).  It should be fairly easy to pull off.  All I need is a pink dress, a red jacket, boots, and lots of fake blood.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 18 Oct 2010, 20:28
More points if you still have the sword sticking out of you.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 18 Oct 2010, 21:16
so i changed my mind and now i really want to be ramona flowers for halloween

Holy shit, I want to see this.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 18 Oct 2010, 21:17
And by "want to see" I mean "my morbid curiosity outweighs my desire not to have the image burned onto my retinas forever"
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 18 Oct 2010, 21:54
yeah it probably won't be super perfect because i'm on an extremely limited budget but i'm gonna try my best
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 18 Oct 2010, 21:58
I demand electric shock blue hair and a mini-skirt at least.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 18 Oct 2010, 22:02
well, yeah.

i mostly meant I'll not have her exact bag (replicas go for at least $40 and up to $120 on the internet shops I've seen) and the goggles might not happen either.

other than that it's cake.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Barmymoo on 19 Oct 2010, 02:55
Guys I have to make a superhero costume! Caveat: I am working in a creche whilst wearing it so I need appropriate coverage and movement, warmth and a superhero kids will recognise.

My current idea is to be Blossom from the Powerpuff girls.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Barmymoo on 19 Oct 2010, 06:21
Yeah, I don't think I could find a white bodysuit in time.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Mynah on 19 Oct 2010, 12:05
More points if you still have the sword sticking out of you.

I am currently trying to figure out a way to do this without it being really, really silly looking.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 19 Oct 2010, 18:13
BLACK CANARY!!!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ozymandias on 19 Oct 2010, 18:15
There is no such thing as a recognizable, appropriate, female superhero.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: allison on 19 Oct 2010, 19:02
I am going as Sailor Jupiter, fuckers. My costume is en route.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 19 Oct 2010, 19:56
 :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:

Psyduck is pleased.

(Where on earth did this emoticon come from?)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 19 Oct 2010, 20:16
Something Awful. Don't know who brought it here, maybe Troll.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: McTaggart on 19 Oct 2010, 22:40
It is the best emoticon.

Sorry T-rex.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 20 Oct 2010, 11:42
Get a really obviously fake goatee and tie it on top of your beard, instead.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: öde on 20 Oct 2010, 12:46
Don't forget a sash to tie round your waist.

I'm probably going to go with hobbit again this year.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: redglasscurls on 20 Oct 2010, 13:35
I'm going to be Carmen SanDiego this year, and we're working on the bits for Chris to be Indiana Jones. Sexy thieves theme is go.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Drill King on 20 Oct 2010, 13:38
If I was to be David Bowie, like sort of ziggy stardust era bowie, do you think I could get away with using my bodysuit instead of trying to find a crazy knit bodysuit? If I had the hair and the make up spot on?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: redglasscurls on 20 Oct 2010, 13:40
100% yes
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 20 Oct 2010, 21:57
For the Halloween battle this year, the theme is Psycho Killers, I intend to go as a member of the Talking Heads.
The older people will get it.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 20 Oct 2010, 22:05
I'm going to be Carmen SanDiego this year, and we're working on the bits for Chris to be Indiana Jones. Sexy thieves theme is go.

(http://i52.tinypic.com/2a69rbp.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Drill King on 20 Oct 2010, 22:20
David Bowie it is!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 21 Oct 2010, 01:03
I'm going to be Carmen SanDiego this year

Surely the easiest way to do this is to not show up and just have Chris tell people who you are. Then when they ask why you're not there he can say "Oh she's right....Man. Where in the world is she?"
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 21 Oct 2010, 19:35
I'm thinking if I do want to go all out I may go as the Death Kwon Do teacher from Regular Show
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SirJuggles on 21 Oct 2010, 20:28
My girlfriend and I have switched plans about 5 times in the last few months. First we were gonna be Jim and Pam from the American Office. Then we wanted to do Venture Bros. Henchmen outfits. Halloween now being a week away, we've decided to just find some cheap, baggy pullover hoodies and attach teeth and eyes to the hoods and tails to the back and be dinosaurs.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 22 Oct 2010, 17:07
Oh man, I just had the best idea.  Someone should go as a Weeping Angel.  They would spend most of the night following one person around and moving just a little bit every time the person looks away.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 22 Oct 2010, 17:17
Like this?

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2813497924_fb701acaed.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Johnny C on 22 Oct 2010, 19:39
Well, I'm going as a plague doctor.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 22 Oct 2010, 21:27
There's a band here called Plague Doctor.

Johnny, maybe you should dress up as someone who plays in a band.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Johnny C on 24 Oct 2010, 04:26
i dreawss as me everyday  8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) :mrgreen: 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 24 Oct 2010, 07:41
That one lone t-rex emoticon in a sea of identical sun-glasses emoticons reminds me of Robert Palmer in the video for his song "Addicted to Love". Now I am imagining t-rex singing "Addicted to Love".
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 24 Oct 2010, 09:45
That is not a sea of emoticons. This is a sea of emoticons:

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Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 28 Oct 2010, 16:49
I couldn't find any big robes for the Death costume, I'll have to make my own next year.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Caleb on 28 Oct 2010, 19:01
When I dressed up as death I just used a big huge piece of black cloth wrapped around me.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 28 Oct 2010, 19:38
It would keep falling off if I did that, I am going to sew one up for next year.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 28 Oct 2010, 19:52
Dude. There's still plenty of time.

Get enough material to do you from shoulder to ground twice, then add and extra metre and a bit for sleeves (depending how baggy you want em, prolly pretty baggy)

Try poplin, it is light weight cotton I think and pretty cheap. Just cut it all raggedy. Whatever.

You don't even need to sew it properly. It only needs to hold together for a few hours. If you want you can fix it later to use next year. Who cares.


ALLY'S TOTALLY EASY ROBE RECIPE SHE JUST MADE UP THEN

(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7076/easyrobe.png)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KvP on 28 Oct 2010, 20:03
I have two choices - Uncle Sam and Mnml Techno. I'm pretty sure the latter was suggested by Brettles some years ago, and it sounds conceptually right up my alley, as well as stupidly easy (white tee, "kick drum" on front, "hi-hat" on back), but the former is something that I won't have to explain to people, and I have the facial hair at present to pull it off.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 28 Oct 2010, 20:19
Do uncle sam
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 29 Oct 2010, 15:31
the Alger Man Club would like to wish all of you a happy halloween and remind you that "it's fucking elegant"



(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/hile-gunslinger/manclubpumpkin.jpg)

it's a unicorn, in case you couldn't tell. usually it's fighting a cobra but cobras are too tech for our meager carving skills
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 29 Oct 2010, 20:12
My house is dressed up as Two-Face* for Halloween. It amused me when this occurred to me.


*The landlord had someone rebuild the front porch, and he's only painted half of it so far. He did it as a courtesy to allow us entrance into the building, but it's funny as hell to see the line of division running up the front steps to the door. And he didn't finish it today, so it's going to look like this for all the trick-or-treaters tomorrow.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 29 Oct 2010, 21:41
Due to lack of money, lack of free time, and the fact that it's raining buckets today and I'd get soaked if I went to the shops, tonight I'm going to go to a friend's Halloween party dressed in one of my infamous "conceptual costumes". I call it "every day pop star": basically, just as pop stars such as Britney Spears of Lady Gaga or Madonna or Kylie Minogue are or were famous for constantly changing their costume throughout a concert, so I tonight will take a bag full of my normal clothes, and every half hour or so I plan on completely changing what I'm wearing. Hopefully the changes will be glaring enough to be at least mildly amusing.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: allison on 29 Oct 2010, 22:02
That is awesome beyond words.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 29 Oct 2010, 22:42
Just wear a green shirt and a red shirt that are more or less the same in every other way, switch randomly between them throughout the party. You will freak the shit out of drunk people, and at less effort. Conceptually though the other idea is superior.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 29 Oct 2010, 22:51
I just wish I'd thought of it earlier so I could have roped some friends into being dancers to keep the party entertained while I'm off changing my costume.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 29 Oct 2010, 23:06
Potential Halloween costume: Hipster Gumby

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs454.ash2/72738_1332503156609_1351920010_31366634_601061_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 30 Oct 2010, 00:45
Why on earth hipster? Why not just regular Gumby? That is awesome enough.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 30 Oct 2010, 01:03
He's in New York City. It's hipster everything.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 30 Oct 2010, 07:19
Every day pop star was a great success! The host of the party was sceptical at first and didn't believe I was in costume (which was understandable), but I explained the concept to her and told her to be patient, and the costume would reveal itself. I explained the concept to a few other people during the course of the evening, but even those to whom I didn't explain it picked up pretty quickly that I was constantly changing my clothes.

I tried to pace the changes like the arc of a concert, starting slow, building up to a crescendo of ridiculousness, then cooling down again to the end. Initially I was changing my clothes after every drink, but after a little while it became pretty much whenever I felt like it. All in all I went through ten changes of clothes. The changes, in case anyone's wondering, were:

- t-shirt & chinos (what I'd been wearing all day; I arrived at the party dressed in these)
- suit & tie (I thought that the first change should be very obviously different from the previous outfit, to make it clear to people early what was going on)
- hoodie & jeans (I didn't stay in this for long, it was boring)
- floppy hat, khaki shirt, shorts, gaters (bushwalking atire)
- singlet & shorts
- pyjamas
- thermal underwear (top & bottom)
- suit pants, shirt, & oversized tie-died Chinese waistcoat
- black peaked hat, Hawaiian shirt, & chinos
- t-shirt, red wooly jumper, jeans, & Coopers Dark Ale trucker's cap

The last outfit was the one I left the party in: at that stage I'd used every item of clothing I had on me except for a black woolen beanie and a pair of waterproof trousers. I was wearing a pair of black dress shoes throughout the evening (my normal shoes), apart from when I had on the pyjamas and the thermal underwear, at which times I was barefoot.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 30 Oct 2010, 08:08
Harry that's amazing. I wish I could have seen that happen.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: StaedlerMars on 30 Oct 2010, 08:17
Harry, that sounds amazing.

went to a pre halloween party!

went as finn and jake with a friend.
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee195/StaedlerMars/finn.jpg)

was one-upped by my flatmate and his girlfriend who went as:

(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee195/StaedlerMars/scott.jpg)

but, we were all beaten by my friend who went as a Creeper from Minecraft:

(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee195/StaedlerMars/creeper.jpg)

Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Carl-E on 30 Oct 2010, 10:00
My daughter had a neat idea this year for a party last wekend. 

Found a head-on image of a car with huge headlights (a Triumph TR-4), painted it onto a tight black shirt, matching the headlights with her boobs.  Cut out the headlights, and an old black bra with matching holes the same size.  Put small taplights in the bra, and went to the party with one on and one off. 

She was a perdiddle.  When the batteries burned out on one light, she switched to the other.  Brought a change of batteries, had to change 'em halfway through the party, but it was a great costume! 

Me, I bought a cheap banana outfit at K-mart, and went as a banana in pyjamas.  Did the peanut-butter-jelly time dance a few times. 
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 30 Oct 2010, 16:59
dressed as a cloud, skyping with parents.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/stifled_dreams/Screenshot2010-10-30at64756PM.png?t=1288483124)

got my cloud dress and a watermelon four loko. party at my house. pix of the inevitable shitshow to follow.

also, I like finn and jake, but where r princess bubblegum + marceline??
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 30 Oct 2010, 23:01
Death was a success! People knew what I was! And now I sleep off the booze.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lummer on 31 Oct 2010, 03:24
Every day pop star was a great success! The host of the party was sceptical at first and didn't believe I was in costume (which was understandable), but I explained the concept to her and told her to be patient, and the costume would reveal itself. I explained the concept to a few other people during the course of the evening, but even those to whom I didn't explain it picked up pretty quickly that I was constantly changing my clothes.

I tried to pace the changes like the arc of a concert, starting slow, building up to a crescendo of ridiculousness, then cooling down again to the end. Initially I was changing my clothes after every drink, but after a little while it became pretty much whenever I felt like it. All in all I went through ten changes of clothes. The changes, in case anyone's wondering, were:

- t-shirt & chinos (what I'd been wearing all day; I arrived at the party dressed in these)
- suit & tie (I thought that the first change should be very obviously different from the previous outfit, to make it clear to people early what was going on)
- hoodie & jeans (I didn't stay in this for long, it was boring)
- floppy hat, khaki shirt, shorts, gaters (bushwalking atire)
- singlet & shorts
- pyjamas
- thermal underwear (top & bottom)
- suit pants, shirt, & oversized tie-died Chinese waistcoat
- black peaked hat, Hawaiian shirt, & chinos
- t-shirt, red wooly jumper, jeans, & Coopers Dark Ale trucker's cap

The last outfit was the one I left the party in: at that stage I'd used every item of clothing I had on me except for a black woolen beanie and a pair of waterproof trousers. I was wearing a pair of black dress shoes throughout the evening (my normal shoes), apart from when I had on the pyjamas and the thermal underwear, at which times I was barefoot.

I must say, that was the most brilliant idea ever! I'm gonna have to steal that one, but that'll be next year.

As for my Halloween; Friday was spent with my girlfriend. We went out to eat some tasty, tasty Chinese food, and then caught a showing of Princess Mononoke in a nice little Theater. Saturday was spent with her too, and saturday evening was just staying at home playing guitar and chilling, instead of being piss-drunk.

Acting like an adult for once is really nice.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 31 Oct 2010, 03:37
Tonight I am pretending I'm not in the house for Halloween purposes. There's only been one knock on the door from (presumably) trick-or-treaters, and it's getting towards ten at night now so there won't be any more which is a relief. It's not that I don't want to give children lollies and make them happy - it's just that in Australia you never know how many trick-or-treaters you're going to get, and I've only been living in this area for a couple of months so I don't know how many trick-or-treating aged children there are around here, and I hate waste so I didn't want to go out and buy a whole lot of lollies and then have them all left over because nobody came around because frankly I don't enjoy eating cheap Halloweenish lollies so I'd have to throw them out if there were any left over.

So it just seemed easier to pretend not to be at home.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 31 Oct 2010, 03:47
Harry gave me an idea. Next year, when I go as Death, I'll have quick-apply, quick-remove facepaint for the face, and dress as Chuck Shuldiner underneath the robe. That way I can quick change, and no matter which one I am when someone asks me who I am, I can say "I am death".
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lummer on 31 Oct 2010, 04:00
Oh goddamnit Nodaisho I love you now.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 31 Oct 2010, 06:07

got my cloud dress and a watermelon four loko. party at my house. pix of the inevitable shitshow to follow.


made out with one of the guys that in the band that played the show at my house, while I was dressed as a cloud. and then told him he couldn't sleep with me. halloween success
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 31 Oct 2010, 07:16
I went to a punk show last night and what the fuck people.

If you dress like fucking Snooki for halloween, I want to punch your face in.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 31 Oct 2010, 08:24
Oh goddamnit Nodaisho I love you now.
If you love me, help me figure out how to be distinctly Chuck Shuldiner, rather than guy in tight jeans and long hair.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 31 Oct 2010, 15:06
Fine Art BA third year put on their house party yesterday, and it was fucking immense. This was my costume, basically just chucked together from shit I had lying around, but with enough creepy touches (not so good with flash):

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs919.snc4/73212_454733858466_514423466_5378397_4016250_n.jpg)

The title of the party was 'Freakshow'. We went to town on the house. There was a smoking area with a projector displaying a showreel mixed from sources such as Haxan, Todd Browning's Freaks, the Adventures of Mark Twain (satan scene), Aphex Twin videos, etc. Music was heavy on the Tom Waits. We had Satan, just a guy in a suit, set up in an office, presenting a powerpoint presentation on the omnipresence of evil and asking audience members to give him his soul so they could be evil without guilt. The kitchen was decorated with fake childrens drawings showing a mixture of happy scenes, dark looming figures, sexual abuse etc, some apparently drawn in blood. Many of these drawings referred to Rapey the Pig. Pappa Rapey wore dungarees, a fatsuit and a latex pig mask, and danced around squealing and playing the accordion. The combined attentions of Rapey, a performance student in an incredibly creepy birdman costume, myself and a man wearing a backwards skeleton mask who walked backwards and saw through a camera inserted in a chicken carcass and linked to a pair of high-tech goggles (seriously) actually drove off several of the less desirable local pikeys. Later there was a parade down the street with Satan on guitar and a suicidal clown on didgeridoo. I was too busy smoking up homeless Adolf Hitler to join in. Standout costume was a pregnant Alice in Wonderland, with a bloody gash in her belly from which a pair of rabbit ears poked. She had blood running down the insides of her legs and drank all her drinks from a teacup which she rested on her belly. Also of note, the Sexually Transmitted Infection Fairy (who gave business cards saying for example 'Congratulations! You have Chlamydia!') and a really darn good possessed marionette.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 31 Oct 2010, 17:43
Last night I stayed inside and played guitar alone

I understand if the rest of y'all don't feel comfortable telling your Halloween plans for fear of seeming lame by comparison
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 31 Oct 2010, 17:51
May I one-up? Saturday night I lay in bed with a migraine and Sunday night I played Sims 3 by myself.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Melodic on 31 Oct 2010, 19:24
I tuned my guitar to drop-C on the 29th and haven't left my room but to answer the door for candy-munchers.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 31 Oct 2010, 19:35
Sadly we only got 6 people at the new house.  WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE BAGS OF CANDY

edit: sorry
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 31 Oct 2010, 19:36
Eat them.

I was going to walk around town with a friend of mine tonight, but he got volunteered to be the designated driver for his sister and her friends. So I'm sitting at home alone on the computer.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 31 Oct 2010, 19:49
There were tons and tons of kids who stopped at my house (my fiancee was shocked by the dense throngs of families on our street because she wasn't here last year.) I tried last year to give candy, but since I live on the second floor I barely ever heard them knocking and my downstairs neighbors were giving out candy anyway. This year I didn't even try, I just occasionally looked out the window at the cute costumes. Parents carrying babies in animal outfits are my favorite.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Inlander on 31 Oct 2010, 20:06
Are they fat babies?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 31 Oct 2010, 21:01
I went to a punk show last night and what the fuck people.

If you dress like fucking Snooki for halloween, I want to punch your face in.
Well you're no fun
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: tania on 31 Oct 2010, 21:53
to be fair, i have legitimately had nightmares about snooki so as far as scary costumes go it seems more than appropriate to me
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 31 Oct 2010, 22:18
I find The Situation much more terrifying.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 31 Oct 2010, 23:13
on sunday nights at my house (which is sort of like a co-op), we have house dinner, when all 18 of us (give or take a few) sit down and eat and spend time together. the doorbell rang and we got really excited since we practically live on a small highway and weren't expecting trick-or-treaters. we thought they'd be cute little kids and we got excited and ran to try to find candy and they were like, a bunch of high school aged punks, lol. I think we had to give them baking chocolate anyways (we weren't really prepared...)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 01 Nov 2010, 00:07
Man people are still trick or treating at midnight here. Victoria is craaaazzzzyyyy
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: David_Dovey on 01 Nov 2010, 00:46
I went to a mall today completely by accident and it was full of little kids in costumes and holy crap I think cute has been ruined forever for me now, I have overdosed.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lummer on 01 Nov 2010, 01:43
Oh goddamnit Nodaisho I love you now.
If you love me, help me figure out how to be distinctly Chuck Shuldiner, rather than guy in tight jeans and long hair.

http://www.bcrich.com/bcrichNew/models/guitars/Stealth/Stealth-Chuck-Schuldiner-Tribute/68 (http://www.bcrich.com/bcrichNew/models/guitars/Stealth/Stealth-Chuck-Schuldiner-Tribute/68)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Nodaisho on 01 Nov 2010, 02:13
Can't afford a guitar for a halloween costume, and god knows B.C. Riches aren't good for anything else.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lummer on 01 Nov 2010, 02:30
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

B.C. Rich has really upped their game these last few years, and the older, early-90s models kick all sorts of ass.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: öde on 01 Nov 2010, 03:43
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs919.snc4/73252_451267553369_508473369_5554222_2751195_n.jpg)

Minimal effort zombie!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Nov 2010, 05:37
Isn't a zombie in a skeleton shirt a little self-reflexive?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 01 Nov 2010, 07:13
I made a classy jack-o-lantern, with a mustache and monocle! He is joined by Jack Skellington and a bat.
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs004.ash2/33538_451013611462_505311462_5936865_5041848_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Nov 2010, 08:38
Dude just happened to be wearing a skeleton shirt when he became a zombie.

What if there was an outbreak of zombie plague on Halloween and a dude wearing a skeleton shirt dressed as a zombie became like an actual zombie.

 :psyduck:
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 01 Nov 2010, 08:47
I threw a party on Friday, which was kind of fun. I dressed as one of those ipod ads (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs077.ash2/37183_534939721437_208601795_31569529_6043893_n.jpg) except without black facepaint because I am broke as shit. Then I went to my granddad's Halloween party yesterday afternoon to help hand out candy to all the kids. At one piece of candy each, there were about 750 kids all told? Then I went to a Samhuinn party last night and dressed up as an 80s faerie. I still wish I had fraggle keyrings or something to throw at people, because that would be epic.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: valley_parade on 01 Nov 2010, 08:50
Can't afford a guitar for a halloween costume, and god knows B.C. Riches aren't good for anything else.

I went as Angus Young a few years ago. Made a rather decent looking SG out of a big piece of cardboard.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Buttfranklin on 01 Nov 2010, 09:00
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs944.snc4/73765_1560348602182_1039294193_31352015_384107_n.jpg)
That is me on the left.  My gf's costume was seriously legit, though.

Here's a close up

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs935.snc4/74863_1560350642233_1039294193_31352020_6760567_n.jpg)

She spent like two hours putting all that stuff on.  All the while I sat next to her and made sly jokes to her sisters about how I "swear to god I didn't lay a hand on her."
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Nov 2010, 09:06
Samhuinn

(Samhain)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: calenlass on 01 Nov 2010, 23:37
(yeah, if you are irish)

(samhuinn if you are scots)


(so, tomayto, tomahto)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 01 Nov 2010, 23:50
Bunch of pics from my Halloween up in the photo thread.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Carl-E on 02 Nov 2010, 08:22
I dunno if this'll work or not, it's on facebook and I'm not that familiar with it...

but it's a brief video of me at that halloween party, with a cheap banana suit and pyjamas.  Yes, a banana in pyjamas. 

Dancing "Peanut Butter Jelly Time". 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=170443732966792 (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=170443732966792)

Oh, and here's my daughter's perdiddle (done with a nightshot setting)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/5140060608_31a5b97c8d.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: paintbrushesRmyweapons on 04 Nov 2010, 14:30
Are you ready for the most mind blowing costume?
I am quite proud of myself for this.(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/treslostnut/IMG_1895.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Allybee on 04 Nov 2010, 16:07
your room looks like jane's room from daria
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Edith on 04 Nov 2010, 16:53
Zombie Sarah Palin, stabbed in the chest with an American flag?

I love it.

Can't see your hands, were you packing heat?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 04 Nov 2010, 17:42
your room looks like jane's room from daria

How old were you when that show was on the air? I'm serious, this is important.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 04 Nov 2010, 18:20
Is anyone else sick of zombies? I am pretty sick of zombies.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Buttfranklin on 04 Nov 2010, 18:47
Are you ready for the most mind blowing costume?
I am quite proud of myself for this.http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/treslostnut/IMG_1895.jpg
Dang, that is super sweet!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 04 Nov 2010, 18:51
I am pretty sick of zombies.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: David_Dovey on 04 Nov 2010, 19:34
Fuck it, a well done zombie costume is still a thing to behold, and that is a Well Done Zombie Costume
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: nobo on 05 Nov 2010, 03:36
Is anyone else sick of zombies? I am pretty sick of zombies.

I was getting there, but then The Walking Dead came on and I bought the comics and now I'm re-hooked.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 05 Nov 2010, 04:56
Dovey I am not disputing the amount of hard work that went into that or the impressiveness of it. I'm just bored of the whole zombie concept. Everything is a zombie now. Zombie [Political Figure]. Zombie [Fictional Character]. Zombie [Zombie]. Getting over it is all.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lines on 05 Nov 2010, 07:15
I personally have never been a zombie. But I did show up to a party as a dead version of myself with the story that I got in a car accident on the way to the party.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: paintbrushesRmyweapons on 05 Nov 2010, 08:31
Edith: Hell yes, I have to prepared in case i run into a moose or a Russian

and as far as being sick as zombies, in cinema yes I am sick of zombies but mainly you see zombies as Halloween costumes and thats because I personally think they are the funnest costumes to do. The make-up work involved in creating decaying flesh is always my favorite part of the creating the costume. You are not going to like any of my future costumes because I may just go as some variation of a zombie every year.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Johnny C on 05 Nov 2010, 08:38
oh look! another photo surfaced

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs148.ash2/40755_496057416349_632301349_7543599_1883930_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: ackblom12 on 05 Nov 2010, 09:14
I personally am not sick of zombies in any way but I also have a strong ability to not get tired of something long after everyone else has.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 05 Nov 2010, 10:22
ITT: Stephen admits that he still loves Linkin Park, but only Meteora and earlier.

It's okay man but this ain't the Confessions thread.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: ackblom12 on 05 Nov 2010, 10:34
HYBRID THEORY IS THE SHIZNIT MOTHERFUCKAAAAAAAAA!

Oh god I feel dirty for even pretending.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Wasteroo on 05 Nov 2010, 11:13
this was basically all I did for Halloween, but if I were to only do one thing I think this was a pretty good thing to choose to do

(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk253/tekk17/thisone-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 06 Nov 2010, 06:16
yes that is a good thing

Halloween makes me want to have children I can teach how to carve pumpkins.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 06 Nov 2010, 08:02
I was going to make a crack about how you have to get married first but I don't want to perpetuate the erroneous belief that children require a "conventional" family to have a healthy upbringing.

...You're old!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 06 Nov 2010, 11:50
I even fantasized about running a weekend workshop at the nearby school (I pass it on the walk to the train) but it would be pretty weird for someone to do that for no apparent reason.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Catfish_Man on 06 Nov 2010, 11:57
My costume this year:
(http://dscoder.com/images/halloweencostume10.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: KharBevNor on 06 Nov 2010, 12:22
Please say that is a plague doctor costume.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Catfish_Man on 06 Nov 2010, 14:06
'fraid not, although that occurred to me. It started out as Herne the Hunter, and then due to various costume parts getting left in the wrong house, morphed into something else.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 07 Nov 2010, 18:44
KRANG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-pcgfQ7Hg
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: JD on 07 Nov 2010, 19:15
I am pretty sick of zombies.
D:
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Metope on 08 Nov 2010, 11:18
I celebrated Halloween too for once!

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs472.ash2/74554_172357286108957_100000040590214_587029_1495374_n.jpg)
Dressed up as Poison Ivy, but everyone thought I was the little mermaid, so I guess it failed.

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs990.snc4/76313_172360056108680_100000040590214_587058_6316768_n.jpg)
I don't even know what's going on here. Apparently we were Power Rangers? Also notice how I even covered my bag with leaves, I went all the way!





Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 08 Nov 2010, 17:21
But you're not actually wearing any ivy!
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 08 Nov 2010, 18:14
I don't even know what's going on here. Apparently we were Power Rangers?

GEEZ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ThePlaneteers.JPG
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 08 Nov 2010, 18:42
CAPTAIN PLANET HE'S OUR HERO
GONNA TAKE POLLUTION DOWN TO ZERO
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 08 Nov 2010, 19:06
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs195.snc3/20233_329281186919_615321919_4035267_6339191_n.jpg)

To clarify further, Power Rangers have both hands in front of them, clutching their power morpher like so:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yNayfGSFPpo/SONCS8RZKFI/AAAAAAAAB7U/lmpUWYzBOp0/s400/n22907014_32585672_5144.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 08 Nov 2010, 21:42
You couldn't pick one of the cool rangers? had to go with the blue ranger?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 08 Nov 2010, 22:56
The Blue Ranger IS the coolest.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SirJuggles on 08 Nov 2010, 22:59
(http://images1.makefive.com/images/entertainment/television/favorite-power-ranger/green-mighty-morphine-power-ranger-7.jpg)

I'm sorry I couldn't hear you over my knife-flute which summons a giant robot dragon.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Ballard on 08 Nov 2010, 23:12
God damn it every time this happens I'm forced to insist that Power Rangers are for pussies and ThunderCats were the shit.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 08 Nov 2010, 23:34
If the Power Rangers had any actually formidable enemies they'd have been toast from day 1. Just sayin'
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 08 Nov 2010, 23:40
Fuckin'. Man I hated the green/white ranger. Just some noob who stepped in after the Fab Five were already on a good thing.

ORIGINAL RANGERS FO LYFE

(http://clgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/powerrangerslogo.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Cire27 on 09 Nov 2010, 04:19
Muh first 16 episodes.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: jhocking on 09 Nov 2010, 04:47
The Blue Ranger is responsible for the werewolf in Twilight:
http://powerrangers.download-tvshows.com/taylor-lautners-inspiration-is-blue-ranger/
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 09 Nov 2010, 08:06
The Blue Ranger IS the coolest.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Jace on 09 Nov 2010, 09:10
FIGHT YOU
Black ranger had an axe. A GODDAMNED AXE
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 09 Nov 2010, 10:06
Blue ranger knew things like science and big words like affirmative
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: vegkitkat on 09 Nov 2010, 14:46
Finally found a picture of me in my costume. So cool.


(http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4701/teamrocket.jpg)
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: scarred on 09 Nov 2010, 16:30
+1
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 09 Nov 2010, 17:57
Blue ranger knew things like science and big words like affirmative

He was also afraid of fish.  I'm going with Green/White or Red Ranger. 


I got to meet Adam Young Bosch at the Toronto Comicon.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: tania on 09 Nov 2010, 18:08
sorry gang, but green ranger/white ranger is by default the lamest power ranger of all due to the fact that the actor who plays him is the power rangers franchise's longest serving actor and has been in like five hundred incarnations of the show despite the fact that he is definitely pushing 40. at least the other original five accepted the fact that they were no longer teenagers and went out and got real jobs, for the most part.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Blue Kitty on 09 Nov 2010, 20:36
That reminds me, which one killed the people on the boat and which one did porn?
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Lunchbox on 09 Nov 2010, 20:55
The Red Ranger was rumoured to be doig gay porn, which is supposedly untrue.
The Yellow Ranger died in a car accident in 2001.
The guy who killed the people on the boat wasn't actually a Power Ranger as reported.

I know too much about this stuff.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Tom on 09 Nov 2010, 22:07
The Red Ranger looks like this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Austinstjohn.JPG/220px-Austinstjohn.JPG)
There is no way he's been doing commercial gay porn.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Gemmwah on 10 Nov 2010, 00:49
I really want to watch Power Rangers now guys you SUCK.
Title: Re: Halloweeny
Post by: Tom on 10 Nov 2010, 01:48
Austin St John's porn doppleganger was a top. I have pictures.