Your favorite character in costume. Anyone with a pinstripe suit and white makeup can dress up as Jack Skellington. And anybody can dress up as Santa Claus. Dress up as Jack Skellington dressing up as Santa Claus. This also lets you be obscure and recognizable, the Halloween costume ideal.
A Statue. Cover yourself in silver paint. Then, depending on who you’re talking to or who you’re trying to impress, you can be anything. Talking to a classic art cutie? You’re the Thinker. Chatting up a sports fanatic? You’re a Heisman trophy. Talking to Leonardo DiCaprio? Get his autograph.
A portmanteau. Having trouble picking just one pop culture icon to emulate this Halloween? Try picking two things with a common name and smashing them together, for a portman-totally original costume. Vintage hair + red lip + heavy sunglasses = Lana Del Ray Charles. Wild curly brown hair + black robe + wand = Lorde Voldemort. Han Solo Cup. Donald Duck Dynasty. Walter White Supremacist. You get the idea.
Literally a portmanteau. Start by collecting a few crates of goods with shipping labels for other countries, and maybe like a seagull or two. Then, dress as a man. Beard, neck tie, football cleats, socket wrench, one of those spinny helicopter hats. Finish it off by dragging around someone else’s car for the entire night. Port. Man. Tow.
The Ghost of Halloween Past. Remember the simpler days of Halloween, when it was enough to cut two holes in a sheet and call it a ghost? Bring that back around this year, but with a twist: whip off the ghost sheet to reveal another sheet ghost. You are the ghost of sheet ghost costumes. Then, beneath that sheet, you guessed it, a skeleton.
Someone you know will be at the party. Go as one of your good friends. Borrow their clothes, glasses, hair, skin, organs—anything to make you more like your bud. Then when you run into him at the party he’ll be all “…” because you took his skin and organs and your friend is now dead.
Happy Halloween!
-Bri Forney, Senior Staff-Member