Adult Halloween costume vent

[Anonymous]

Go to Walmart! They have some longer length plus sized costumes. Some even have sleeves.

[Anonymous]

I have a long black beach cover up type dress. I'm throwing a black shawl over that, putting on a witch hat - done.

[Anonymous]

OP, just wanted to say that I'm there with you. I think there is a business opportunity out there for adult costumes in more realistic sizes/lengths.

In "real" clothes, it took time, but there are so many more options now than there were 10 years ago. I suspect same will be eventually be true of costumes. In the meantime, PPs have lots of good ideas!

I'm searching for a costume for an adult-only party, willing to spend & not have a thrown together costume, but it's slim pickins!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I don't buy costumes; I always create my own. Your son can be Elmo; you can be any number of characters from Sesame Street. Your costume doesn't have to be professional.

OP here. Can I hire you? I wish I had the ability to come up with creative costumes but a yellow dress with feather boas is the extent of my creativity!

And my parents will be there handing out candy. They don't get trick or treaters where they live so practically begged us! Plus, I'd go out half naked and suck it up before I stayed home and missed out on trick or treating with DS and DH. I'm just annoyed I can't easily find something like I can for DH or DS.

You can get custom made costumes on Etsy but it's quite expensive.

[Anonymous]

LBD and witch hat from Target. Done.

[Anonymous]

Dress in all blue. Bring cookies. You can be Cookie Monster AND eat cookies all night. Win!
You could always go the blue dress, wings, wand, and pigtails route. Abby.

There are some pretty cute diy big bird costumes out there though.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I ended up finding a cute yellow dress on amazon that I'll actually wear in the spring. Add some cheap tights, a yellow bird mask, rainbow eyelashes, and some feather boas and I'm pretty happy with my dyi costume.

[Anonymous]

Wear Capri length leggings under the short costume (that's what I'm doing).

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Hi all, this is just a total vent.

This is our first Halloween with 2 year old DS (lived out of the country last year) and we also just moved to a wonderful neighborhood where neighbors say whole family dresses up and trick or treats and there are also a couple of parties. DH is loving the idea of a family costume and DS wants to either be Elmo or a turtle (he liked the teenage ninja costume we saw).

I however could stand to lose about 15 pounds, pretty much all in my horribly untoned thighs and hips. Still recovering from double knee surgery and my thighs look awful.

On to my vent...why are ALL costumes for women incredibly short?! And if I look for a plus size costume (which I need anyways because I have H boobs) they are either still short or ridiculously expensive for something I'll wear one (like $80). I'm just getting frustrated that I keep having to poo poo ideas because I can't find anything for me to wear. At this point I think I'm going to have to make my own big bird costume with a yellow dress and feather boas.

Vent over [/quote]

Just buy a witches hat. If you have a black shirt and black maxi dress, you're a witch. You can also wear a black shirt and black leggings/yoga pants. All people care about are the hat and some makeup. Surely you can get that?

One year I went as a black-eyed pea. Just cut out a letter "P" and pin it to your shirt, and put some black and blue make-up on one eye. Done.

[Anonymous]

A few years ago I bought the German beer girl costume but it was so short it showed everything. I went to Jann fabrics and bought the longest trim bye years they sold and sewed it on. It added about six inches to the length. So, still short, but not arrestable-short. Then I started sewing my own costumes. My Wonder Woman costume is a skirt, not bikini bottoms.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who does family costumes and it's always really cute stuff. One year they were all mimes white faces, black shirt and pants and white gloves. Another year they were all skeletons. It's never been anything skimpy and they always get tons of oohs and ahhhhs over there costumes.

[Anonymous]

DCUM Halloween Costume thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/411596.page

Boom. Problem solved. You're welcome!

[Anonymous]

Seriously? Just wear black and buy some cat ears. Those cat ears will you the rest of your Halloweens. Another thing I never understood is family trick or treating in neighborhoods. If everyone is out then who is answering the door? I always send my husband out with the kids. It's a fun thing that they do together and my husband is willing to dress up.

[Anonymous]

I agree that making your own costume is the way to go. Halloween is for the kids and the college age set.

Dressing slutty after 40 is not classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that making your own costume is the way to go. Halloween is for the kids and the college age set.

Dressing slutty after 40 is not classy.

Dressing slutty is never classy.