Regrettable Halloween Costumes

Posted by Johnny Cat in Fashion on October 22, 2009 at 11:05 am


the-washingtons-240-102109Did you ever have one of those Halloweens where your costume fell way short of awesome?  I sure did.  I was going to be a killer robot.

I had two boxes, a large one for my body, and a smaller one for my head.  I cut armholes in the big one and a hole in the top, where the other box went.  I painted the whole thing orange, and cut out eye holes.  About fifteen minutes after leaving the house, I realized the total and devastating failure of my endeavor, and returned home a sad, orange robot disgrace.

I know there are other stories out there that beg sharing, like Susan’s as told to Lemondrop, among other confessions:

My brother and I dressed up as George and Martha Washington one year. (My Dad was a big history buff.) Yup, it was incredibly nerdy. And also kind of funny that I was about a foot taller than “George Washington.” (pictured, above).

More terrible costume stories at their site, but since I confessed, it’s your turn!  What costume idea of yours turned out to be less than you’d hoped for?

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21 comments to "Regrettable Halloween Costumes"

  1. Alex
    October 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 am

    I once dressed up as myself ... and nobody recognized me! :)

  2. jackjumper
    October 22nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    I wanted to dress up all in fleece and wrestle with the dogs for a while. I would have been Dog Hair Main!

    My wife wouldn't let me though

  3. Gauldar
    October 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Hmm... I just thought of a great costume. ZOMBIE ROBOT!

  4. Miss Cellania
    October 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    I once went on a very public outing for Halloween as The Easter Bunny. A bit strange, but I was warmer than anyone else on that cold night!

  5. jeffp
    October 22nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    I don't recall any stories of Martha Washington ever having met Napoleon.

  6. oopsbigtime
    October 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    My husband was hitler and I was eva braun... OOOPS what a mistake. we planned to goof up the characters with stupid jokes and behaviour, but as soon as we walked in the house.... it was a MISTAKE. we left early.

  7. namowal
    October 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    In my early teens I had a ladybug costume where the bug's face was at the top of a dark hood. The wearer was supposed to obscure their face with dark make up. I was afraid it looked too much like blackface (even though it didn't have the white areas around my eyes and mouth.) I was white and didn't want to offend anyone, especially the moms in our carpool, who was black.
    My parents said I was being silly. That it was obvious the face paint was for matching the costume and that I worried too much....

    Guess who found my costume offensive?
    Whoops.

  8. Cat
    October 22nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    In 6th grade I had a big obsession with the paranormal and classic movie monsters. I decided to go as Wolf Man. My dad, being the strange man that he is, managed to convince me to simply flip my very long hair over my face and wear sunglasses. We also made furry gloves.

    In our defense, I DID look a lot like Wolf Man. But I also couldn't see and I got a lot of teasing as a 12 year old girl using her hair as a mask.

  9. ByrdBrain
    October 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    That article was rather lame, IMO, but at the same site is one by a serial killer's daughter which was quite interesting.

  10. Courtney
    October 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    In 5th grade my Mom got an idea to make me the spirit of Halloween. I wore a black cat suit with orange and black balloons on it! (Sadly the idea came out of a children's costume book!)

  11. themonkey
    October 22nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    oh, Courtney...i'm so sorry for you. are you ok now though? still speaking to your mother?

  12. quinnnchick
    October 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    My son requested to be an orange hand when he was 4. You know, the don't cross hand. O.o yeah too tough for mom to make so we went with his second choice... a stop sign. green sweats and a cardboard sign with shoelaces to tie the sign to his back.

    now he's 16 and has been Jason for the last 5 years. :| I miss my strange creative boy.

  13. Goober
    October 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    My brother went to a Halloween party once dressed as Santa Claus. He won a prize for most original costume.

  14. Lily
    October 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    My boyfriend and his friend asked permission from me if they can shake a party up by going as Batman and Robin. While our group of friends are mostly comic book nerds and geeks, they didn't exactly appreciate the tandem as much as my boyfriend thought they would.

    And as the old saying goes, "it sounded like a good idea at the time" Now they're just bombarded with gay jokes everytime we go out.

  15. Mike @ Mr Costumes
    October 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Last year I skipped the paid costume and tried my hand at creating my own from cheap clothing. I tried to go as Magnum PI which basically included lousy jeans, an ugly hawaiin shirt and one really bad mustache..I looked horrible!

  16. Jamie Wilson
    October 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    yeah, my mom never let me dress up as a dragon, or luke skywalker... having 2 older sisters made it easier. " well jamie, it's going to be getting cold when you're getting all that candy... so let's just layer you up and send you out as a little fat girl"
    needless to say i not only managed to get craploads of candy from people who pitied me, but i also got my ass kicked 2 or 3 times per halloween...

  17. monkey_town
    October 23rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Supergirl. It was one of those out-of-the-bag costumes. Being chubby and bespectacled didn't help my case any. It had a tiny little uneven red ruffle around the middle (some sort of skirt?) to indicate it was a costume for a girl. Also, capes weren't allowed at that school, so it ended up being a sorry costume indeed.

    Now I just make my own costumes.

  18. Sean D. Freuduh
    October 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    When I was a kid, probably 6 or 7, I was really into the book "Old Yeller". For Halloween I cut holes in a brown paper shopping bag for my arms and head, then I drew the book's cover on the bag. I even fashioned a dog's head out of cardboard as the bookmark.

    Years later my mother showed me the polaroids she took that night. It was dreadful. There's nothing like getting suddenly embarrassed about something you did many years ago...

  19. Katey
    October 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    My brother once dressed up as a 'girl' (and it was a weird costume, he wore one of my grandmothers old wigs and an old womans skirt suit) and most of the houses we went to thought he really was a girl and wondered what he was dressed up as- a few asked if he was supposed to be Hillary Clinton. (This was about 93, he was about 10.)

    I knew a guy who's mom had dressed him up as Hitler and sent him to school.

    I also heard a great story on This American Life about another kid who got dressed up as Hitler at school and how the teachers dealt with it.

    Personally, I was always content to be a cat or a witch or a vampire. If it was black and involved makeup, that was enough for me.

  20. Larfin Jackarse
    October 24th, 2009 at 5:59 am

    Wow. A new whole level of trauma.

    Thank God the wisearse does not allow Halloween in Oz!

  21. RP
    October 31st, 2009 at 12:26 am

    It wasn't my idea. When I was 10 and she was 9, my girl cousin decided that she wanted to go as a boy and suggested to our moms that I go as a girl. On Halloween morning before school my aunt and cousin showed up to borrow some of my clothes for her costume. I was presented with their idea, a wig, my cousin's dress and shoes. I quickly rejected the suggestion but our moms were even quicker going to work on me.

    I was still refusing when my aunt was putting make up on me and I was in this frilly pink dress, blond pigtails, knee socks and patent shoes. My cousin wore a baseball cap, a sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. I was teased to no end at school, even by my teacher. That night I was not recognized and asked several times what I was supposed to be. My cousin was too happy to answer for me.

    That was definitely regrettable and it was the last year that I went trick or treating.


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