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Bet you thought I was skipping another day. NOOO. Making up for what would've been October 7th's entry is October 8th's entry -- The Wallflowers! Courtesy of the New Line Cinema Shop.

This is, of course, your All Day Saturday Thread, X-E's holiest tradition. Today's survey: Discuss the most interesting Halloween costumes, good and bad, that you've donned over the years. I've had some fantastic ones, but I've also had some real crap. Near the top would be "ALF's cousin Ralph," this being a full-body ALF costume with a different -- but still brown and fuzzy -- alien mask. (We looked everywhere and couldn't find an ALF mask. This was the next best thing.) Closer to the bottom would be the year my friend and I wore his father's oily mechanic clothes, posing as "hobos." It was his mother's idea. We cried a lot.

Posted by Matt on 10/08/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 82 comments

I think my best and worst costume were all summed up in the same Halloween. When I was 14 I dressed as a dead saloon girl for my cousins’ Halloween/birthday party. I wore my store bought Saloon girl costume and I pained my face white. My family thought it was a cute costume, but when I went trick or treating everybody thought I was a dead pirate.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/09/2005 12:45 PM

I don’t think I’ve ever had any wicked-good Halloween costumes. One year my mom sewed a Star Trek uniform for me because she liked Star Trek. I think I’d seen like one episode ever. It was like she was setting me up to be a social misfit.
My first Halloween costume was supposed to be a clown but as it was wicked cold out my costume turned into 2 year old me in a snowsuit with balloons taped to it, a toque on,and clown facepaint. I’m sure my fellow Canadians have had similar snowsuit adapted costumes. Most years you had the indoor costume and the outdoor version, which is when those plastic sheet costumes came in handy because you could just slit the sides of them so they’d fit over a snowsuit.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 10/09/2005 12:45 PM

My boyfriend did some up with the best last minute costume ever though. Some friends invited him out last minute so he wrote "Idaho" on a piece of paper and taped it to his shirt. Surprisingly only about half the people at the bar got the joke.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 10/09/2005 12:46 PM

When I was a kid, my mom was able to buy a ton of costumes from Sav-On Drugs due to an error in price. One of the costumes was of a Monk. So I came up with the idea of taking this dog mask I already had and used it in conjunction with the costume. It was original, but not all that special. But oh well. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 10/09/2005 1:55 AM

My "best" costume was a clown. I say "best" because I won a costume contest with it at my best friend’s school, but I hated the stupid thing because I’ve always hated clowns. My mom bought it for me when I couldn’t wear the previous year’s costume again. I still don’t know what she was thinking. Ha ha on her, though, because now she gets to wear it every year.

I really liked my first costume ever, a jack-o-lantern. It was really puffy and I could fit a winter coat under it and you could still see the costume.

At school one year (fourth grade)we had a "dress up as your favorite book character day" and I went as Matthias from Brian Jacques’ Redwall. I had a big shiny blue robe and my mom and dad helped me make a tail and ears (he was a mouse). I thought it was really awesome, but it was tough to walk around with my big paper tail all day. It was at least better than all the other girls in my class. I swear almost every one of them went as a character from the Baby-Sitter’s Club. All they had to do was dress in their regular clothes. Lame.

And my favorite things to find in my trick-or treat bag were the bags of candy. There was always at least one house every year that gave out Halloween-themed Ziploc or small paer bags filled with stuff. So awesome. I’m so jealous of anyone who trick-or-treat’s at Matt’s place.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/09/2005 2:14 AM

Oh! Sorry for the double post, but I just remembered- in first grade, one of my friends dressed up as "laundry." She had a laundry basket pulled up around her waist filled with clothes and an empty bleach bottle strapped to her head. It was really creative.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/09/2005 2:17 AM

I’d say my worse costume had to be my vampire costume. There was a big blizzard just starting right before it got dark. It eventually dropped 2 feet of snow that night. But I was bound and determined to get some candy so I just bundled up with a whole bunch of clothes and put the cape on. Didn’t even bother to put make up on. There was also a time that my friends dressed me up as a woman. I made one damn ugly woman! :(

Chestnuts roasted by Disgruntled Spam @ 10/09/2005 2:33 AM

My best costume had to have been Dolly Parton. It was when I was in high school. I wore a white denim skirt, a western style shirt with fringe, cowboy boots, and a hat. And I borrowed one of my mom’s bras and stuffed it.

I also have to mention what I think was my son’s best costume, though I’m sure he’d disagree. He was born on October 27, and my mom made him a dalmation costume by glueing black felt spots on a white sleeper, and sewing doggie ears on a little hat. It was so cute, and Halloween was the first day we took him out in public. Lots of people wanted to look at the cute little newborn in the doggie costume. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Elfinlady @ 10/09/2005 9:32 AM

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I think my best costume was my matrix 20 dollar costume from last year, the year before that was probably my worst with a makeshift punk rock and then when i actually did go trick or treating it turned into this attempt to be a marine from alien with a stomach buster popping out that totally failed and fell off, damn you duct tape

Chestnuts roasted by DeathX @ 10/09/2005 12:33 PM

My best Halloween costume was in 2003. I dressed up as a woman. Normally, thats a pretty lame costume, but it’s rather funny when you are 6’8" and about 3 bills. Pretty easy costume actually, just picked up a dress and bra from Salvation Army, stuffed some rice in pantyhose to make boobs, got some support hose, and had my girlfriend do my makeup. The hair is mine. Click my name to see me in all my unholy glory.

Chestnuts roasted by Devil Denied @ 10/09/2005 2:05 PM

My worst costume ever was when I was at Girl Scout camp right before Halloween and they were having a costume contest. See, my REAL costume was a black cat, but my grandma hadn’t finished sewing it for me in time for camp, so my troop leaders ended up making me a damn sheet ghost with holes for eyes. I hated that costume so much because my real costume was cooler and plus it was hard to hold my pail what with having my arms under a sheet and all. I think I ended up winning some sort of prize for effort because the judges felt sorry for me.

My best costume was either when I dressed as Luigi and my best friend dressed as Mario (this was when I was 18.. people in my friend’s neighborhood didn’t give a crap how old we were), or when I dressed as an non-traditional alien. For this I wore as many inhumanly bright and clashing colors as possible, neon green tights, purple skirt, hot pink shirt – sprayed four different colors on my hair and twisted it up in these weird braids, and carried around a flashing fairy wand. Also my face was painted white with pink fake eyelashes and blue lipstick, plus random patches of glitter on my face. It looked really cool.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 10/09/2005 2:06 PM

Hehe I figured I should comment. Hmm damn my memory is failing me. I guess my worst costume would have been the fact that Ive been a witch for a good 4 years running (thats what happens when u take up the Pagan faith and enjoy a good kitcshy laugh.)

Most years I was something evil but I cant play my finger on what. We always saved our costumes for dress up though so hell we probably still have some of them.

My best costume is gonna be this year. Im gonna be Ginger Spice (in the Union Jack dress so people get it :p)! Stupid as it is because I have the makings for 4 out of 5 Spice Girls but Im lacking that damn outfit. What super sucks is the job I just started boasts a huge Halloween costume selection ad we get 50% off yet I have to wait another 2 weeks to get it…I’ll probably just piss my money away anyways.

Seems like Halloween is gonna be a good 2 week event for me this year so Im sure Baby Spice will be thrown in the mix too at some point…

Chestnuts roasted by Anastacia @ 10/09/2005 2:25 PM

Devil Denied: Thank you for punishing my curiosity.
I’ve just decided that, should I ever manage to reproduce, I’m going to dress my five-year-old as Pennywise. Everyone expects a little kid in a clown costume. Nobody expects them to grin broadly to reveal jagged fangs. My goal is to emotionally scar as many fellow candy-grubbers as possible.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/09/2005 3:27 PM

Me- What does the the link reruns lead to? Every time I try to click it it moves out of the way.
Matt- read the above and fix it damn it! I always have problems with the stupid god damn links in the shity text. Damn. Shit. Poop! Yay for swearing!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/09/2005 5:04 PM

Darth, it goes to a sound page from the show: http://www.nd.edu/~comet/stuff/sounds.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/09/2005 5:47 PM

Sorry I’m late. A few of my costumes from Halloweens past, starting with the earliest (that I can recall, at any rate):

-Sylvester the Cat
-Spider-Man
-Vampire
-Pirate
-Gangster (complete with fedora and revolver)
-Eddie (the mascot of Iron Maiden)
-Jerry Only (from the Misfits)
-Vampire (again)
-Grim Reaper
-Crazy 88 assassin (from Kill Bill)

This year, I think I’m just going to re-hash my Crazy 88 costume from last year since I’m gonna be spending Halloween with a different group of folks. Plus, I’m too broke to buy a new outfit and too lazy to scour thrift shops for cheap costume elements.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/09/2005 6:23 PM

Creepy. Yeti, we had 3 costumes in common: SPIDERMAN, EDDIE, and the GRIM REAPER.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/09/2005 6:46 PM

For years I alternated between The Reaper and the Impaler himself, Dracula.

However, over the past few years I’ve had some great ones:

- Ted "Theodore" Logan
- The Crypt Keeper (complete with ridiculously overpriced mask)
- Vlad the Impaler. I knew someone who made chain mail and such so I had real armor and it was the stupidest idea ever.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/09/2005 7:28 PM

My best costume: my mom made me a bat costume when I was about 10 I guess or 9. I even had ears and the whole nine. Of course everyone thought I was a cat and would ask where my tail was and then I’d hold up my arms and would have these badass wings under them. It was so awesome I recycled it again the next year.

Year after that I was a black cat.

Then I was going through a Godzilla obsession and found this green "dinosaur" suit that had huge spikes on the back and looked JUST like a Godzilla costume. Complete with the super long tail. No one knew what I was though, they all thought I was a lizard or something . Disappointing.

Then I was a witch, and a vampire. My mom owned this awesome black cape that came in handy throughout high school and junior high.

There was also a ghost costume that had a pointy hat on it. Looked like a KKK thing unfortunately :( Ew.

the last year I dressed up I was a cat again. Although i did go to class in HS once on Halloween with a "goth/vampire" type makeup job and all black clothes with my hair styled. With these high heeled black boots with chains on them. Kinda a rocker/vampire I guess. I normally was very light on the makeup and didn’t look like myself at all. When people started teasing me for dressing up I would just give them a cold stare and say I was just being myself. That’s when people started whispering to themselves about how I weird I was. Oh well. LOL

I want soooo bad to be a fairy this year but don’t have the money for the costume. Will probably just get some ears and a tail to tack on to my jeans and go as a cat. My B/Fis totally against Halloween costumes for babies but I bought my daughter a "Halloween outfit" anyway. Black pants with a spider web print and a black shirt with a cat and a big spider on it. It’s cute. He didn’t say nothin’ when I brought it home.

I LOVE holidays!

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 10/09/2005 7:59 PM

I need to get me one or two of those kids. Not because I like them or anything, I just want an excuse to get free candy, and taking a 10% fee of your kid’s candy for taking them Trick or Treating so they don’t die or get hurt or get kidnapped or someone doesn’t steal their candy is fair…right?

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/09/2005 8:42 PM

I seem to remember being Indiana Jones for two or three years…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/09/2005 11:24 PM

no one can top my two best costumes:

1. yellow sweatsuit with a 2 on the shirt, black party hat, gray socks and pink shoes. i was a pencil

2. smeared lipstick, "goo" in my hair, elmer’s glue on my shirt, and a "hello my name is: Eileen" sticker. i was "cum on eileen" this, of course, was more recently

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/10/2005 10:46 AM

One time i wrapped myself in a unstable pocket dimension, and spent Halowe’en reversing the vortices in people’s toilets. Just phase through the walls, a flick of the wrist, and presto! The look on their faces when they flush and a cone of water rises out and almost hits the ceiling before going down the hole! Ha ha ha!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/10/2005 12:01 PM

In ’94, when I was 12, I was an Indian Princess (and before you ask, I’m actually Italian). I was a Bee in 3rd grade (1991). I had this AWESOME Unicorn costume in Kindergarden (1988). It was Pink with a hood that had the mane and horn, and the body suit had a tail. I think there were hooves on the cuffs of the legs and arms.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/10/2005 3:29 PM

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