Discussions

Embarassing Halloween Costumes

Posted by MadMadMargo • 10/28/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: embarassing costume, halloween costume, homemade costume

Remember that homemade Halloween costume your mother either took days to prepare or threw together at the last minute? Ridiculous, right? Just how bad was it?

Here's my embarassing costume:
I wore a long prairie dress and an old-fashioned bonnet. My mother then attached two Martian-type antennas made from aluminum foil to the bonnet plus I carried an antique WWII gun.
What was I? A Space Pioneer!

User Comments

10/28/08

ekim941

Eclectic?

[reply]
10/28/08

ModelElaine

here is my Halloween costume a couple of years back

[reply]
10/28/08

OMYWORD

When I was 7 or 8 years old my mother dressed me up as a Dirty Hippie. I'm not sure which Best & Co. clothes she was able to dirty up enough to make me look like a leftist whore, but I remember I carried a protest sign. It said Down With something-or-other. I can't remember what. Man, was she ever prescient!

[reply]
1. 10/29/08
  
  MadMadMargo
  
  Down-With-War?
10/28/08

dosyrosie

I was always a cat! Black clothes and furry ears!! I had a friend who went to a halloween party dressed as a box of Daz (washing powder) that his mum had made. Just his head and feet poking out!!

[reply]
1. 10/28/08
  
  MadMadMargo
  
  Yeah, I was a black cat once, but I looked more like a black rat. I think it was the red lipstick on my nose that was confusing. Or maybe it was the short whiskers drawn on with eye-brow pencil.
10/28/08

ModelElaine

my son was a race car driver last year and this year this racing suit still fits him

[reply]
1. 10/28/08
  
  MadMadMargo
  
  Darling!
10/28/08

ThriftShopRomantic

Oh, I wrote a post about all the, um, creative Halloween costumes my mom encouraged me to wear over the years...

You might get a laugh from this:
cabbages-n-kings.blogspot.com/2008/09/nightmare-on-sesame-street-part-one.h...

She was a great seamstress, but there were ALWAYS wardrobe malfunctions.

[reply]
1. 10/28/08
  
  MadMadMargo
  
  Too funny, I loved it!
10/28/08

erinelizabeth

oh my --- my mom took a piece of cardboard, covered it wiht a table cloth and cut a hole in it. then put it over my head and glued a plate, cup and flowers to it and I went as

THE KITCHEN TABLE.

oh yeah.

[reply]
1. 10/28/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  (Shakes head)... yup, sounds like original Mom Halloween Couture.
2. 10/28/08
  
  MadMadMargo
  
  wait a second.....yep, I got the visual.....lol!
3. 10/28/08
  
  erinelizabeth
  
  ha I got picked on SO bad that year!!
10/28/08

Bayho

i actually dont have any bad halloween costumes stories.. although i do remember one year telling my mom that i wanted to be a lion.. but a cute one you know.. i was in like 8th grade and i wanted it too look cute.. but she bought me this complete lion body suit.. i waslike.. wtf is that??? i didnt wear it but good thing she saves all the costumes.. because i know someone has worn it since then.

[reply]