Halloween 2010

Corey and I started our morning today by going to VV looking for costume ideas and when that failed we continued on to the malls. Hillside had a few good ideas, but I don't really feel like spending $90 on a costume that I have a good chance of making or piecing together from my own wardrobe and maybe a few other items from a second hand store. So far, here are my DIY ideas:

The Black Canary (I'd probably style it after the older costumes rather than the newest versions):

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Can-can dancer:

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A Robin. There is a running joke at Corey's house that because my name is Robyn, I make nests, eat birdseed and lay eggs...so I had thought of dressing up as my namesake. This should be easy, as all I would need would be a red dress (check) with brown cardigan or something over top, brown leggings (check) and then a mask or fun makeup with feathers in my hair:

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Or perhaps, another comic book hero, the female version of Robin? Corey and I joked it would be funny if he dressed up as Batman and I as his sidekick...A less DIY idea but it could work:

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'Babe Lincoln', which would involve buying a beard, top hat, tie and then dressing up in a miniskirt with a vest and long coat....easy enough and kinda funny:

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Artemis or Athena. Easy enough, I already have the below AA dress in blue and would only need a bow and arrow and perhaps a stuffed animal as my companion for Artemis and a shield or an owl to accompany me for Athena:



Input or any other great ideas that people would want to suggest?

Polish Folk Dancer

This just in: Screw the Panda or Peter Pan costume idea. I am going to dress up as a Polish Folk Dance Puppet. BAM! Two P's in the name; I feel so accomplished.

My sister still has her Polish dancing costume from when she is little, and since we both still wear the skirt, all I need is a sequined vest, bows, beads, and flowers. I wish I had little red boots, but I guess we'll wait and see what my hunting amongst second hand stores will come up with.

Photo Reference:

Found on a flickr photostream

And for over the top puppet makeup (with marionette mouth):

Found at Clever Nettle from Numero Korea

Costume Ideas?

So next Friday I am going on a pubcrawl with the EPHE faculty and need to come up with a costume that starts with an E, a P or an H. So far I'm drawing a blank; I mean, I can certainly come up with plenty of things to be but none that are getting me super excited. Perhaps it's because I don't really want to spend that much money on a costume (spending it on alcohol seems so much more logical).

I do have the makings of a Peter Pan costume, and a Power Puff girl costume would be easy (but so much more fun if I could get other people in on it). I'm not a huge fan of the over sexualized trashy costume ideas (Pimp's and Ho's), so I feel like that seems to cut short a lot.

I've thrown 'The Letter P" parties before and have thus thought of being a puppet or pepto-bismal, pterodactyl, but seriously, nothing is making me excited to put together a costume.

I think maybe I want to be a panda:

Bandi-Panda Fashion by Zhao Bandi

At least, the blond wig and ears, plus pandaid style makeup and panda styled clothing.

Input?