It’s never too late for Halloween
It is Halloween. A day of tricks, treats, scary movies and, of course, costumes. This is the one day of the year when you can pretend to be something or someone else. Although today is All Hallows Eve, it is not too late to dig through a closet or run to the D.I. and scrounge up a costume.
Courtney Hahne, junior in speech communications, said she has not yet planned her costume for this year, but suggests finding a group of friends and developing a theme.
“One year all my friends and I were female Disney characters. I was Tinkerbell,” Hahne said.
Instead of buying a costume, Hahne said she made her own.
“I am not a good seamstress,” Hahne said, “but I just sewed green material to a shirt, gathered some green netty stuff and tacked it to the bottom for a skirt. Then I wore green leggings and cut them jaggedy at the bottom like Tinkerbell.”
Hahne also suggested taking something unique about an individual and making a costume out of it.
“One time I got my wisdom teeth out and I had chubby cheeks, so I dressed up as a chipmunk,” she said. “I just painted my face, made paper ears and wore all brown.”
Steve Nielson, senior MIS major, doesn’t plan on going all out for Halloween this year, but suggests making a costume out of a cardboard box.
“You can decorate it like a car, an outhouse or a robot and voila, perfect costume,” Nielson said.
Scott Stephenson, junior majoring in physics, has a different suggestion for a card board box.
“You could always do the kissing booth thing,” Stephenson said. “From what I’ve seen, you just get a box and attach some straps to it to go over your shoulders and write ‘kissing Booth’ on it.”
“Of course,” Stephenson added, “that one usually has an innuendo with it.”
Nielson has a warning for last-minute costume hunters.
“I would warn against wrapping yourself in toilet paper to be a mummy though. It’s harder than it seems,” he said.
Maren Donaldson, senior in exercise science, suggests making a mummy costume with a cut-up white sheet instead.
Another use for white sheets Donaldson and Hahne both suggested was a toga costume.
“One time my roommates and I dressed up as Greek gods,” Hahne said. “We got cheap gold gaudy jewelry from Wal-Mart.”
Bethany Madsen, junior marketing major, said she often finds great costumes at the D.I., as well as in her parent’s attic.
“We found a sweet ’70s dress at the D.I. and my friend decided to be a retro fairy,” Madsen said. “We also found a little kid bee costume and adapted it so a friend could be a bee and my aunt once dressed in a gray sweatsuit and walked around with a bottle of water. When people asked her what she was she said she was cloudy with a chance of rain, and then she would squirt them.”
Other suggestions Madsen had for late planners included buying a red T-shirt and putting a white start on it to dress as Homestar Runner.
–kandice.crompton@aggiemail.usu.edu