halloween grinch
October 22nd, 2006 @ 7:53 pm | miscellany | Post a CommentI’m not really a big fan of Halloween. My disdain probably dates back to 5th grade when my best friend and I had our pillowcases CHOCK FULL of candy ripped from our hands and stolen by some neighborhood thugs when we were just a block away from home (and minutes away from an incredible sugar high).
I’m usually able to avoid Halloween parties, but this year I’m invited to one that I really want to attend for every reason except for the costume requirement. It’s probably lame to show up without a costume to a costume party, right? And I’m guessing that donning my pink bachelorette party veil and some giant ape gloves hits a little too close to home?
So I’m asking for help in creating the easiest, cheapest, best Halloween costume for me to wear on Saturday night. Bonus points if you can incorporate any of the following items I already own:
- vintage DVF wrap dress
- white feather boa
- ridiculous number of Howard Dean sweatshirts
- cute blue and white striped apron
- several Philadelphia professional sports team jerseys (courtest of that boy I’m marrying)
- gobs and gobs of cat hair
- a new KitchenAid mixer (okay, not really costume-worthy but damn I am excited about owning this beauty)
- about 12 Tulane volleyball tshirts
- lots of pretty shoes
- hot rollers
- rubber cleaning gloves
- a bag of limes
- shin guards (but ewww they stink, please do not make me wear them)
- a cute fabric headband
- one strand of Mardi Gras beads
If I use your costume, I promise to reward you with a blog post that shamelessly links to your site, which I am postitive will send at least half a dozen or so readers your way.
I hate Halloween too. I am so happy it’s on a weekday this year so i don’t have to go out and deal with the drunken crowds.
I think it would be funny if you wore the cute dress and some hot shoes, and then put the hot rollers in your hair and wore the apron and the rubber gloves (and you can carry the new mixer under your arm… and maybe get a duster to carry in your other hand or something). You could pretend to be a quintessential (no idea how to spell that) housewife, since, you know, YOU’RE GETTING MARRIED
Hopefully I can just get away with wearing some Halloween socks to work!
written by jen
October 22nd, 2006 @ 9:43 pm
dress, shoes, apron, gloves. . . rollers BEFORE you leave. . . be a stepford wife. i have a dress i bought just in case i ever need a stepford wife costume because I LOVE HALLOWEEN.
written by betsy g.
October 22nd, 2006 @ 10:51 pm
or you could be a chicken with a feather boa and a rubber glove on top of your head.
written by betsy g.
October 22nd, 2006 @ 10:52 pm
ok, so no bonus points for me but do you have a blue dress? perhaps an old bridemaid dress? throw it on with some red horns and a tail, and maybe a pitchfork and you are Devil with the Blue Dress On.
written by k
October 23rd, 2006 @ 12:08 am
I am totally with you in being somewhat of a halloween grinch. I don’t so much mind the holiday as I much as I HATE dressing up. I’ve just outgrown the costume thing. I don’t know what costume to suggest from your list but maybe you and Andrew (I’m assuming he’s going too) can go as some kind of duo/halloween team thing. Costumes are more fun with a buddy.
written by Sarah
October 23rd, 2006 @ 6:47 am
You and Andrew can be Barbie and Ken, just wear huge, tacky nametags and dress nicely.
written by Erika
October 23rd, 2006 @ 7:30 am
Yes, you MUST get dressed up. I’m saying this because I went to an 80’s party on Saturday night and I was petrified I’d turn up and NOONE else would have dressed up.
But everyone did. And so was I. And good times were had by all! Hoorah!
You could get creative with a costume involving the limes threaded through the Mardi Gra Beads wearing only an Apron and sexy shoes BUUUUUUT?
Maybe go as a good old-fashioned housewife? I’m thinking hot curlers, classic makeup, apron, high heels - possibly even wearing the rubber gloves!!
Suits your upcoming special day….
P.S. I went to my costume party as a Wham back-up dancer in a GoGo shirt, so feel free to completely disregard both ideas.
Especially the first one.
-Aly
written by alyndabear
October 23rd, 2006 @ 7:51 am
I never got to go trick-or-treating until I was in 8th grade (ancient!) so nowadays I relish an excuse to craft up a costume. I’m sorry for your traumatic candy-snatching - I hope those kids had terrible cavities.
Soooo… costume… In the same vein as the Devil in the Blue Dress, you could be the Devil Wears Prada and just fake the Prada clothes if you need to. The Devil Wears DVF and cute red shoes?
You can do a lot with duct tape of various colors, too. Like wearing all black and writing words on the white tape to be magnetic poetry. Or just being a jailbird. Or jailbait? I guess it depends on your party…
Good luck!
written by RA
October 23rd, 2006 @ 9:33 am
What about if you wear your Dean stuff and carry around a Kool-Aid pitcher. You could be the “I drank the Kool-Aid” girl????? Lame??? Sorry I’m not that good at costumes anymore either.
written by Alison
October 23rd, 2006 @ 10:15 am
Martha Stewart? Apron, carry a polaroid of the mixer, wear the headband, you are already blonde, cleaning gloves optional, and clearly, you need a lime.
written by rachel
October 23rd, 2006 @ 10:16 am
For some reason, I am thinking pimp. I guess it is the feather boa and the mardi gras beads. If you have white shoes, you’re all set!
written by Tamara
October 23rd, 2006 @ 12:15 pm
wrap dress + pretty shoes + string of pearls (real or fake)= Republican trophy wife!
written by -R-
October 23rd, 2006 @ 3:48 pm
Stepford Wife! What a great idea! You should go with that! :o) Martha Stewart is a cute idea, too!
Will and I are going as Popeye and Olive Oyl.
written by Janet
October 23rd, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
I like the housewife idea - but I’d incorporate the bachelorette party veil to, and be a housewife to be! Wear the apron, the gloves, some curlers, some cute shoes… Actually some friends and I were thinking about being brides to be - I’d like the back of my shirt to say “The Future Mrs. McDreamy”
PS and off topic George is gay?! Am I the only one who had no idea?!
written by Gwen
October 23rd, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!!! I am sorry you had a bad experience, but dressing up is so fun and Halloween is creepy and crawly and fun! I am such a loser, I know. Anyway, I like the housewife/republican trophy wife ideas best. Although, one of the best costumes I’ve seen was on this girl who was wearing a slip(or slip dress). It was white and on it she wrote Freudian terms…and she said she was a Freudian slip. I thought that was so cool!! Maybe I will be that for Halloween this year. I have a party this Saturday and “costumes are welcome”–and hell yes I’m dressing up! Another thing you could do is wear a hat with a string tied in front of it with a leaf on it. When someone asks you what you are, blow the leaf and say you are a leaf blower! OK, I’m done!
written by Lindsey
October 23rd, 2006 @ 9:41 pm
Get a group together and go as the Sheet Family.
Person 1: Sheet wrapped around body and bull horns on head= Bull Sheet.
Person 2: Cut out a small area of sheet and pin on shirt= Piece of Sheet.
Person 3: sheet tuban= Sheet Head.
Person 4: dog mask/outfit and sheet= Dog Sheet.
Person 5: sheet with holes= you guessed it…Holy Sheet.
I know there are only two of you, but I still like the idea and its easy!
written by Karlyn
October 24th, 2006 @ 12:00 am
I’ll keep it short and sweet:
You’re a sexy (or tough, depending on how you feel that night) PIRATE.
Pirate costumes are easy, fun, and can still incorporate cute boots (like the ones in your pic!), a red and black wrap dress, a feather boa, the mardi gras beads, and all you have to add is some red lipstick and an eyepatch.
Done!
written by elise
October 24th, 2006 @ 1:51 am
I like Karlyn’s sheet idea! I want to do that. I am for sure going to be Holy Sheet for Halloween!
written by Kari Dickson
October 24th, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
I love the Freudian slip idea. If Andrew needs a costume too, I just rememebered my favorite (and low maintenance!) costume of all time: this guy I know got a big bow that he tied around his chest, and put a big gift tag on his shirt, which said “To: The Women of Earth. From: God”. (Get it? He was God’s gift to women!)
written by Jennifer
October 25th, 2006 @ 11:22 am
Ok…Bestsy TOTALLY stole my idea!
I was going to say Stepford wife. I think you should go for it. It would be a great costume.
Man…I wish I was invited to a party that I could get dressed up for.
written by Jenni
October 25th, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
I hate Halloween also.
(I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!)
written by Isabel
October 25th, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
Hey there. Found your blog via my friend Jennifer (chronicles of Baltimore). Love it! Here is my ‘best’ Halloween costume ever! Let me preface it with, I also hate dressing up for Halloween. I refuse to spend tons of money on cheap, uncomfortable and freezing cold costumes. My idea solves all three problems. It is free (if you can find a big sweatshirt)…Its comfortable (hello I just said it involves a big sweatshirt) and again due to the big sweatshirt its warm!! (Oh and added bonus it might make a few people laugh…not at you…but with you and your wit for coming up with such a great idea). Drum roll please…go as “The Walk of Shame.” Hopefully in college, you have seen a poor girl in this situation or maybe you have lived it first hand
You all know what im talking about….the long walk back to your room after a night out. When you would rather die than put your ‘going out clothes’ back on so have resorted to borrowing a sweatshirt from your male friend. Costume is simple…big sweatshirt (preferably that covers the short skirt or just shorts you wear) your pretty shoes…some messy hair and some smeared eye makeup. Enjoy!
written by Liz
October 26th, 2006 @ 10:11 am