Comments on: Regrettable Halloween Costumes

By: Jaide

Jaide — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:52:49 +0000

I plan on going as Eva Braun in Hell this year … probably a mistake in the making but oh well lol. I’m going to wear a dirndl with devil horns, devil tail and my dachshund will be dressed as one of her scottie dogs. I also happen to have a Rolleiflex camera just like she had.

By: Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:48:53 +0000

I was Dorothy one year. I purchased the costume. I needed the red glitter shoes. I put glue all over the shoes. Put the glitter on and put them outside to dry. They looked great. I thought I was one to something until I was out with them on. They were rock hard! We were downtown so I couldn’t take them off. They were hurting my feet sooo bad. They had no give. My feet were bruised the next day. This was before they started making all of those cute shoes to go with the costumes. Will not do that again.

By: RP

RP — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:26:31 +0000

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.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:59:24 +0000

Wow. A new whole level of trauma.

Thank God the wisearse does not allow Halloween in Oz!

By: Katey

Katey — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:51:09 +0000

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.

By: Sean D. Freuduh

Sean D. Freuduh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:46:52 +0000

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…

By: monkey_town

monkey_town — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:42:13 +0000

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.

By: Jamie Wilson

Jamie Wilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:16:34 +0000

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…

By: Mike @ Mr Costumes

Mike @ Mr Costumes — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:54 +0000

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!

By: Lily

Lily — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:04:23 +0000

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.

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:02:36 +0000

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

By: quinnnchick

quinnnchick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:50:53 +0000

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.

By: themonkey

themonkey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:33:51 +0000

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

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:42:10 +0000

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!)

By: ByrdBrain

ByrdBrain — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:18:52 +0000

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

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:02:15 +0000

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.

By: namowal

namowal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:48:08 +0000

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.

By: oopsbigtime

oopsbigtime — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:11:44 +0000

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.

By: jeffp

jeffp — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:46:39 +0000

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

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:30:18 +0000

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!

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:12:26 +0000

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

By: jackjumper

jackjumper — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:02:06 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:08:05 +0000

I once dressed up as myself … and nobody recognized me!