What is the best Halloween costume you have ever seen...for an adult? for a child?

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One year I got 2 secret service agents - 2 mid teen aged boys. They had on suits, white shirts, skinny ties. They had taken old phone cords( the spiral ones) and fashioned them into an ear phone with the end running down into their shirts.

Dark sunglasses, and the best part was they had briefcases handcuffed to their wrists - that was what they were collecting their candy in. I thought these costumes were great! .

My son made the greatest costume 3 years ago. He decided to make himself into a demon. First of all he is very tall and thin.

He took a pair of old Doc Martin boots and built up a hoof over the boot that them came up the leg with fur. The hoof was extended a good ways beyond the end of the boot. He made a loin cloth of the same furry material.

He used some kind of latex foam to create a bumpy spine. The bumps were glued onto his back and ran down his actual spine. On his head he made, out of the same foam, two huge horns that were form fitted to his head and curved away from his skull at least 18 inches each.

He shaved his head so that the horns would fit correctly. He painted his body with body paint a dark red with black patterns all over his body and skull. He fitted foam prosthetics to his face to change the features and dimensions.

He did not look like himself at all. He spent the night up in Hollywood at some clubs and private parties. Everyone thought he was a professional costumer or make-up artist.It was a great costume and more than a little scary.

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Found a use for old prom gown. My senior prom was in "87 so I had this huge poofy irradescent white cinderalla frock thing, with puffy sleeves and ribbons. Why would I ever where it again you ask as you cringe?

I turned it into a fairy godmother outfit by adding some more schmutzy stuff. I made these huge feathered wings that were covered in irradescent white glitter. The wand was a four foot dowl rod painted pink with white and pink christmas lights up and down it, topped with a clear pink star that has blinking pink and white lights inside.My crown was a foot and a half tall pink lame' piece with pearls and strings of foil stars.

I was the bomb.

Creativity and homemade costumes win over store-bought Anyone can go to a store and buy a costume, but it takes time, effort and talent to create a really good one from nothing. I've also been impressed by people who ignored whatever is currenly popular, and done their own thing. That being said, one of the teachers at my daughter's afterschool program made himself a Spongebob Squarepants costume when that cartoon first became popular.

He wore a pair of bright yellow Lycra stretch pants..the kind you see on professional athletes. Over that was an ordinary pair of men's gym socks with stripes at the top, and brown dress shoes. But the best part was the "square."

He found a large cardboard box that was rectangle shaped, and was only as wide as he could comfortably fit into. He painted most of that yellow. He used hot-melt glue and fabric to make the shirt and tie, and added fabric inserts to a pair of brown pants to get them to fit over the cardboard box.

He cut open a window of sorts so he could see out of it, and pasted a bit of window screen or mosquito netting over it. That was painted yellow, to keep the illusion of a gigantic yellow kitchen sponge, but still let him see where he was going. For Spongebob's nose he used one of those foam float-sticks that kids use when they are learning to swim, and two giant foam hands from sports stadiums completed the look.

The following year, this same guy was Captain America. Shiny, satiny form-fitting stretch pants and shirt, underneath, probably bought at the same place he got the yellow ones from the year before. That was covered up by a pair of bicycle shorts that had been cut down and hemmed to fit over that. I don't know what the guy used for the full-head mask, or where he got the boots, but the whole thing was hand-made.

He also had a replica of Captain America's sheild made out of papier mache. Have you ever been to Salem, Massachusetts in October? That's a great time of year to see people's creativity come out.

Last year I saw a cannibal/headhunter carrying a string of (plastic) shrunken heads, Xena, two Klingons, a couple dressed as the Tin Man and the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, a very cold-looking Cleopatra (yes, it was a sheer, see-through dress! ), a group of realistic-looking cavemen, and Freddy Krueger. The best part was when we stopped to get supper, and four total strangers all showed up, each one dressed as a different member of the Addams Family: Uncle Fester, Mortica, Gomez and Lurch.

For kids, again, creativity rules. I saw twin girls last year dressed as "Cinderella: before and after. " One little girl was in the full princess regalia, and the other was in rags and carrying a bucket and toy mop.

Now that Doctor Who has become popular again, I saw a ten-year-old boy done up as a Dalek made entirely from cardboard and styrofoam. When the Lord of The Rings movies were out in the theaters, I saw quite a few hairy-footed hobbits running around, and one kid in the neighborhood, whose mother works at a local hospital was all wrapped up as the best-looking mummy I've seen outside of a museum. I love the dressing up part of Halloween, but if you want to see people dressed in costumes the rest of the year, check out a science fiction convention...many of them have costume contests, too, and they are held all year round..

I heard a good one the other day Our local B98.5 radio station was talking about costumes for your children. A woman called in and said she planned to put her son in a box. Get it?

LOL, I loved it. As for an adult, I found this interesting suggestion: Invisible Man You need an extra-tall button-down shirt and an extra-tall trench coat. Wear both over your head so that your face is in the chest area (arrange a piece of black cloth over your eye area to see through).

Stuff the shoulders and top of the arms. Now use a piece of stiff wire to suspend a fedora over your head. Dangle a pair of sunglasses below the hat using fishing wire.

Wear gloves. (Alternate: wrap your face in gauze and wear large sunglasses. ) Got to admit that would be cool to see walking up to your house!

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