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Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:52:21 +0000

[...] What was your favorite costume, ever? [...]

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:46:23 +0000

Kissing Booth! I had just recovered from mono and was on a kissing rampage. The costume was easy enough to make: I cut a box in half and painted a sign on the front. I hung that around my neck using a rope and wore a great push-up bra. Oh and I also had a can to collect money for my kisses. I made $20 and met my future husband!

By: Abby

Abby — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:18:03 +0000

My two sisters and I grew up with a big black Newfoundland dog, so one year we put on gingham dresses, did our hair in pigtails, stuck a leash on the dog, and went as the Three Goldilockses and the Bear!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:41:56 +0000

My mom & I were just talking about all the creative costumes we (SHE) came up with when I was a kid. My favorite was when I was probably around 10 years old. I was a devil, but it was an extraordinary devil. I had a gold face & large pointy red ears that really made this devil special. We laughed b/c I won the costume contest at our church that year! I think my best costume EVER was in college one yr when I was Poison Ivy from Batman. What a costume! I’ll have to dig out pictures & post them! :)

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:52:48 +0000

My most memorable costume was a roller skating mugger. It was the mid-1980s, so roller skating was still something people did for fun on a Friday night. The only problem was that my school had lots of stairs. Another slight problem was the parade, which was held outside on the baseball field. All the gravel did a number on my skates’ ball bearings. Eventually, I had to dispense with the skates and just be a mugger.

An easy last-minute costume, just dress all in black, have a face-mask knit hat, and a pair of black roller skates.

By: miranda

miranda — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:19:54 +0000

I had a costume I loved that I wore to a masquerade ball that was in the spring, but it doesn’t qualify for this!

When Disney put out their first run of Nightmare Before Christmas costumes about 5-6 years ago, I got a Sally costume. It’s slightly different from the costumes that you can get everywhere now, and a little bit higher quality. It was hard to match the facepaint to the color of the “skin” in the costume, but otherwise pretty good. I had a good time in that costume.

When I was 12 I went as the Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Edition) in a mask that was really hard to get my hands on at the time. I glued the mask to my face with rubber cement and I suppose I’m lucky there was no permanent damage. I think this is the only non-girly costume I’ve ever done, and that’s why it’s on my list. I wore black pants and a plain white shirt with a bow tie, and a length of black fabric with silver trim sewed to it as a “cape.”

Last year I was Alice (in a Japanese Gothic Lolital influenced outfit, though) and my fiance was the White Rabbit (in a creepy smiling mask).

I liked all of these. I don’t remember too many others. A lot of my childhood costumes were based on raids of my mom’s closet.

Now I keep a small plastic storage container of basic costume components: cat ears on a headband, little devil horn barettes, a boa, fairy wings, wigs, cheap feathered masks, etc. It makes it easy to throw together a costume for friends and family members if something is needed. Most of it is stuff left over from my past costumes.

By: mod*mom

mod*mom — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:10:21 +0000

the flying nun when i was 6, 1st grade. i wanted to fly like sister betrill