Well, hello Friday! After a 12-hour drive, I am back in the Midwest for the weekend. And what are you doing? Preparing for your Halloween costume, obvi! Seriously, you are getting ready for Halloween, aren’t you? It’s a week away.
The actual fashion/style happenings are a little light around the District this weekend (go check out Rue 14 in the spot formerly known as Pop. They are officially open and have great finds for men and women)
Living in the city we don’t have access to huge Halloween stores, unless you are willing to hop in the car and head out to the burbs. But worry not… DC has some good spots for some solid finds.
Target in Columbia Heights has a fairly large Halloween selection. Go there to stock up on fake blood, face paint, plastic pumpkins, lots and lots of candy, and any other ghoulish staple that you may need.
Searching for a skimpy costume? Slutty Girl Scout? Sexy kitten? Naughty nurse? Go to the Halloween store in Cleveland Park. A friend hit it up last week and reported back that while it lacked in some areas, it was definitely heavy in trashy (i.e. slut-tastic) Halloween apparel.
If you are planning to take it old school on the 31st and need some clothing to play the part, pay a visit to Junction on U Street for a great selection of vintage clothing and accessories. Are you planning to go as a 70’s funkster or a disco queen? Bop on over to Meeps and check out their funky selection of clothing.
Or perhaps actually building a costume is more your style. No problem. Both Logan Hardware and the hardware store on 17th street have all you could need to hammer, spray paint, cut, glue and build the perfect Halloween get-up.
And since people in the Midwest wake up early, I was able to catch the Halloween segment on Good Morning American this weekend. They had some cheap and easy costume ideas…
Fall Angel – put leaves in your hair, make a halo out of pipe cleaners and slip into a nightgown. Perfect!
Hawaiian punch – throw on that tacky Hawaiian shirt that has been living in the back of your closet and snag a pair of boxing gloves from your gym. Hawaiian punch!
Pig in a blanket - Seriously, it doesn’t get much easier than this. Buy a $4 plastic pig nose, tie a blanket around your neck and voila! instant Halloween costume.
Other great contenders include…
Static cling – wear all black and pin socks, underwear and other random items to your clothes.
Christmas present – take a box, wrap it up, cut armholes and stick a bow on your head. Not the most comfortable, but definitely makes a statement.
Anti-Halloween – take a black marker and on a write shirt simply write “This is My F*cking Halloween Costume. Enough said.
I know you all are way more creative than I am… so time to share your favorite costume ideas!
God loves a cheerful giver.
A couple years ago, when a friend needed a last-minute desperation idea, I though of a "poo" costume- brown sweat suit with glued pieces of corn, peanuts, whatever else you can think of. Stink optional! I/he never ended up doing this, so I don't know how well it would come out. Yes, I know it's horrible, but for a certain sense of humor, it could work.
pin a bunch of dollar store dolls all over yourself and bingo - you're a chick magnet.
Em eff, I wanna be The Joker but there's gonna be 600,000 of them running around. Maybe I'll be poo...
I love taking child-size costumes, cutting them apart and reconfirguing into an adult-size mutation of the original. I did that with a care bear costume last year. I wore the head, turned the legs into legwarmers, the body into a little bolero (and stuck the tummy part to a tank top) and somehow squeezed my ass into the butt part for booty shorts...
just a few suggestions that i've done.
bag of jelly beans: blow up a bunch of multi-colored ballons and wear a clear garbage bag, fill with the ballons.
bunch of grapes: also with ballons, but pick a color and buy a fake wire grapevine at a craft store, wrap around your neck/shoulders and tie the balloons at varying lengths. i also wore a vine on my head.
grilled cheese sandwich: this is a bit more difficult. i used a huge ocrrugated cardboard box, cut it apart and painted two sides to look like toast. for the cheese i bought foam at a fabric store and spray painted it orange. glue or staple the "cheese" to the "toast" and then attach the two pieces with string or wire and hang over your shoulders.
those were probably the best, but i used to go all out every year, haven't the past couple though. i mean wearing my old candy striper uniform gets old after a couple years.
FYI... it is supposed to be "fallen angel" not "fall angel". I can't type... sorry!
No one in this entire city has topped my Captain Jack Sparrow, I don't care what kind of nonsense you may post in retaliation.
This is true.
i am going as karl lagerfeld. skinny black suit, white shirt, shades, finderless gloves, tons'o'rings, spraying my ponytail white. i thought it was very original.
until i saw it on fashionista.com
Why buy sh*t made by underpaid workers in China and look like everyone else (Target/Halloween store idea). Hit the Goodwills and other thrift stores in the area to get all kinds of cheap and unique clothing to construct your costume from. Be Halloween-y *and* green. (Didn't you know that all the cool kids are doing the green thing now?)
And, God, how awesome is it to dress up your kid as an oompa-loompa? Green hair and all! If I had one, I would totally do it.
michael - let's see a picture of your cap'n jack getup. i don't believe you. ho.
the annual, amazing Halloween fashion spread (as styled by Morgan and shot by Shervin) is coming Thursday but for now everyone still can enjoy last year's "Girls on Film":
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/style/girls-on-film-halloween-style-inspiration/
Eddie - I don't have any. Others do. Besides, are you calling Cale a liar?
I'm going as Lindsay Lohan, and Dave (the cheap o' decor guy) is going with me as her girlfriend Samantha Ronson. hottest psuedo-lesbians ever.