Adults need Halloween costume ideas that are appropriate for their age and setting. Costume puzzles, deconstructed fairy tales, and pattern books are good sources of inspiration. Safety and comfort should also be considered.
So you are over 21 years old and you have been invited to a Halloween party. Or, your office has decided that everyone should dress up for the holidays. What are the right Halloween costume ideas for adults? Look online and retail Halloween costume ideas range from idiotic to almost X-rated. You’ve all seen the moan-inducing cow costume, complete with a rubber udder, as well as the French maid outfit fit for a club. striptease. What should an adult do?
Halloween costume ideas can borrow from ghost and goblin lore, movies, fairy tales, or just about anything else, including the clever costume “puzzle.” (Guess what I am!) These are all valid fodder for Halloween costume ideas.
The wardrobe “puzzle” is usually very suitable for a work environment. A favorite idea involves very little work. The user simply cuts all the front and back panels out of a cereal box and wears them over the head, attached with string or cloth, like a sandwich board. However, the front of the box should have cereal bits stuck to it, with rivulets of dried glue (to make it look like milk) and a plastic knife plunged into the front. voila! A “cereal killer.”
A very simple costume puzzle has the user wearing a black T-shirt with a capital “P” cut out of white paper and pinned to the shirt. The user lines one eye with black eyeliner. Behold: a black-eyed “P” A green T-shirt with green “T” paper attached to it and the puzzle is obvious: green “T.” Pink lipstick around the eye? Pink eye! Dress in a bathrobe with tissues and a thermometer in the pockets, an ice pack on your head and fuzzy slippers – you’re home sick!
Some other ideas for Halloween costumes: Make a poncho out of green felt and decorate with cheap Christmas decorations to go as a Christmas tree. Find stuffed, open-mouthed dog toys and snap them together like they bite your arms and legs. Now you are a dog hunter. Deconstruct the popular fairy tale by buying a Snow White outfit and tearing it up. Wear a torn hair bow and carry a cardboard hatchet. Snow White went psycho and killed the dwarves! With a rubber pig snout and feather boa, you can be Miss Piggy. It’s me!
A good place to look for Halloween costume ideas is in the pattern books at fabric stores. Most manufacturers have patterns for Halloween costumes. Even if you don’t want to make one of the patterns, you may still get some good ideas for what you want to use. The internet also has numerous ideas for adults who want something different on Halloween. Just make sure your costume doesn’t obstruct your vision, or if it does, that it can remove the obstruction for safe driving and isn’t too restrictive to movement. Also remember to bring a change of civilian clothing to the party so you can ditch your costume if it becomes too cumbersome. But most of all, have fun and let your hair down. It is Halloween, after all.
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