Ive won quite a few costume contests, with prizes ranging in cash up to 1000.00 big screen tvs, Multiple DVD players, trip for two to alantic city....
Ive also won the Scariest male character at Transworld costume ball.......
Atalie and I have won the Scariest couple at the CrazyBob event...
Years ago it used to piss me off soooo bad when a hottie in a slutsuit would win a halloween costume contest.... so when we enter anything these days we go ALL OUT!
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I keep saying one of these years I'll show up at work to actually win the costume contest. But that would mean coming to work on Halloween.
Still annoys me every year when I see someone win the thing with nothing but a witch hat on.
My boys won one at a big party the year they were pirates. I don't have the good pictures of 'em anywhere (this was prior to our having digital cameras), so this is the only one I got. At the end of the night, after having taken off some of the stuff. (Kyle HAD to have a blunderbuss, don't know why. I glued a horn off a semi to a crossbow stock.)
I've done okay, but not so much lately. In the past all it took was a competent zombie makeup and a well-grunged suit from Goodwill. I think my prop (a head made from a cheap Halloween mask draped over a wig block with lights in the ping pong ball eyes and a laughing bag for a voice, all contained inside a minature coffin) helped. A nice, simple ghost outfit (old curtain sheers draped over Victorian clothing, gray makeup, and handheld battery-powered candlesticks) did well.
But now it's either the revealing girlie costumes or guys who go all out who do best. I have no place to store a ten-foot Frankenstein getup, so if we go to public Halloween parties anymore I do my best to present a convincing character but not to impress the competition judges.
Sometimes that works, though. Back in the '90s my sister and I did nice Andorian outfits at a Star Trek convention in Atlanta, GA. You'd have thought Gene Roddenberry himself had walked in from the reaction we got. There were more spectacular Next Gen outfits there, but ours weren't store bought. I think it helped that we were Original Series charcters, too.
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Mark McG. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'll tell ya what gang....reading this thread made me realize that we have to get a lot more serious about being in costume for Halloween (Jeez, should I even have admitted that we are not good sports about being in costume?eeeeee!!!!!). We never seem to have any time, we're always rushing like crazy before the 1st kid gets to the door. These guys refuse to dress up in this house and me, I've always worn the witch costume.
I already told them that this year we are all dressing up. Last season when I was so sick I did not wear my costume and I was shocked at the amount of both kids & adults that commented to me about it. To be honest I did not realize it meant that much to them. SO this year we are going to work on that.
Rob, I hope I have enough talent to use one of these appliances on Jerry. I mean he works the kitchen which is known as the "Cadaver Cafe & Candykitchen" all the kids & parents go that way & have to visit with him.....they would be absolutely shocked to see him in a Zombie Chef outfit. We also could do the Butcher thing cause he worked as a meatcutter here before retirement so we have those meat gloves & big white heavy coats & aprons and even a few hooks. I'm gonna work on him!!!
As for Joe I hoped he would be the Rodeo Clown Bullrider....as he was a real bull rider so he has chaps, spurs, hats the rope the bull wears with the big bell, the number that is attached to your back and we could put an appliance on him too. AAhhh yes Zombie Bullrider from Hell!!
Wish me luck guys in persuading them........this sure was an inspirational thread to help me push them along. Great ideas here for costumes!!
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