Your Complete Guide to Halloween Costumes: A blog about Halloween.
I know that many of you are in the throes of planning your families’ Halloween costumes, and I want to help you out. You see, I am an expert on Halloween costumes. More specifically, I am the world’s foremost authority on homemade Halloween costumes. (At least my mother tells me so.)
If you need a costume idea, here are a few of my favorites. This is the first in a multi-part series: today I’ll cover superhero costumes, followed by villain costumes, sci-fi costumes, and horror movie costumes.
Superhero Costumes
The Incredible Hulk
This costume required green face paint, green sweat suit, purple shorts, silver duct tape wrapped around the waist for a belt buckle and “shredded” for shoe laces and hair spikes, green socks covered with silver duct tape to simulate shoes, black gloves with silver electrical tape wrapped around them for wrist bands. The shirt had three holes ripped in it (one on each side and one in back) through which the purple shorts can be seen. It also had shredded duct tape for the neckline.
A note about Hulk makeup: this is very important! You see, when Bruce Banner gets angry
Ghostbusters is a 1980s classic movie. The story is about three scientists that lose their job at Columbia University. They create a ghost capturing business in New York City.
The main characters are Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis).
In the film, there are also two other characters that can be part of the costume group for Halloween: Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) and Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts).
You can either buy a Ghostbusters costume or make one yourself. The Ghostbuster’s costumes are not complicated. You can easily make your own costume because most pieces you will have in your closet or can find at any thrift store or second hand shop.
Here is your guide to Halloween costumes:
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Welcome to the Halloween Costumes Blog! This is where we’ll be sharing all sorts of fun Halloween costume ideas and helpful tips to get you inspired for Halloween.
Halloween is one of our favorite times of year, and we love sharing new ideas with our readers to help make their costumes the best they can be. If you’re looking for a costume idea, here are some of the latest blog posts:
How to Make a Ghostbusters Costume
If you are looking for an all-time favorite Halloween costume, look no further than Ghostbusters. This is a costume that never gets old, and it can be worn by people of all ages. Not only that, but it’s a very easy costume to assemble.
First, you’ll need to find the right kind of jumpsuit. You’ll want one that is navy blue with orange stripes down the legs and arms. This will mimic the uniform worn by the Ghostbusters in the movie. If you can’t find a jumpsuit with the right colors, you can always buy navy blue coveralls and paint orange stripes on them yourself.
Next, you’ll want to find a faux badge that says “Ghostbusters” on it and attach it somewhere on your jumpsuit. You may also want to purchase a name tag for your jumpsuit and write your name on it with permanent marker.
Finish off your outfit with a pair of rubber boots (preferably black) and paint white circles around the tops of them using white poster paint or acrylic craft paint. You could also purchase black boots with white circles around them if you’d rather not attempt this yourself.
For props, you’ll need some kind of toy gun that shoots out little plastic balls (these are sold in
Halloween costumes are costumes worn on or around Halloween, a festival which falls on October 31. An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. There are many references to the custom during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Celtic countries of Scotland, Ireland, Mann and Wales. It has been suggested that the custom comes from the Celtic festivals of Samhain and Calan Gaeaf, or from the practise of “souling” during the Christian observance of Allhallowtide. Wearing costumes and mumming has long been associated with festivals at other times of the year, such as on Christmas.[1] Halloween costumes are traditionally based on frightening supernatural or folkloric beings. However, by the 1930s costumes based on characters in mass media such as film, literature, and radio were popular. Halloween costumes have tended to be worn mainly by young people, but since the mid-20th century they have been increasingly worn by adults also.