I'm a 20-something nerdy female English teacher who needs two great Halloween costumes (one that's okay for school, and one that can be less appropriate...unless of course an appropriate one is also hilarious and perfect). In previous years, I've been Coach Z from Homestar Runner, Tyrone Biggums from Chappelle's Show, an evil queen (disney-esque), Leela from Futurama, and a variety of witches (mostly when I was too young to make my own costumes). I like to have current pop culture costumes, but I also like visual representations of puns, visual gags, or just extremely silly things. I like cartoons, computers, movies, and grammar, if that helps. I'd like to avoid using a lot of make-up because I'm a serial face-toucher. To give you an idea of this year, I have been seriously considering buying a costume of the Munchkin Coroner from The Wizard of Oz. Also, I am not what I would call "skinny" and I don't dig slutty chick costumes. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Okay, first of all, thank you for having some imagination around here. There are too many people who can't even decide over which cliche costume to wear.
Here are some original ideas I've gleaned from some research in the last few weeks:
A famous painting - Frida Kahlo? Ophelia by Millais? Perhaps something surrealist or modern?
-Lady Godiva (obviously not at school, but you could do this without being slutty by wearing a beige bodysuit
-Sushi! Some ideas here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apso82EnrOAfCiNtmhwQGMXty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071008072107AA4aeA7&show=7#profile-info-Ilo3Yq4iaa
-Lawn Gnome
-Knife-throwing act:
-Voodoo Doll
-Chupacabra
-Stephen King - Master of Horror
-A wise owl
-A tombstone - have fun creating a silly epitaph
- Tippi Hedren from the Birds
- Medusa
- Hester Prynne - had to throw this in there since you teach English. It would be fun to dress up in period costume and make a big fancy scarlet A
- Jellyfish
- Crazy Cat Lady - you could make this more spooky by adding black cats to your costume. You can use stuffed animals or there are some cheap latex ones on oriental trading right now: http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=browse&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&demandPrefix=12&sku=25/4221&mode=Searching&erec=2&D=latex%2Bcat&Ntt=latex%2Bcat&Ntk=all&Dx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&Ntx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&N=0&sd=HALLOWEEN+BLACK+STANDING+CAT
- Che Guevara
-A clever costume for your inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xstarsprinklesx/1333755022/
-Headless Marie Antoinette with tutorial:
Have Fun!
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lol funny…. I just had a dream last night that we were driving on a trip and David Bowie drove by us and I shouted in Demyx's voice, “Hey look! David Bowie!”
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