Dr. Z I checked out the link you posted to Ms. Skull's costume. Her comment about following people and not making a comment really brought back memories. One year at the office someone came to work in a gorilla costume. They didn't say anything all day, they would just get in your face and stare at you. It was really freaky. Then another person was wearing a devil mask. They didn't speak either. They would just stick their sharp pointed tounge through the mask and get in your face. I have to admit, it made you feel really uncomfortable and creeped out. Great haunting strategy don't you think?
I have tried lots of different things over the years (mummy, Bride of Frankenstein, gypsy, pirate, vampire, spider lady, ) but I keep coming back to witches...they are just my favorite. I've been some incarnation of a witch more often tha any other costume.
The reason I ask is that every year my wife and I do a different costume and it's always a lot of fun. However, this Spring we are most likely selling our current home and moving - maybe about an hour/hour and a half away...........and I loved my costume this past Halloween (The Incredible Two Headed Transplant - what fun!) and I'd like to do it again, but part of me feels lazy 'repeating' the costume.
I guess if they're new neighbors, it's a new costume, right?
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I guess if they're new neighbors, it's a new costume, right?
We feel the same way. For example, after wearing something different every year for the last 15 years, my wife & I dusted off our 2001 costumes to wear to The Amazing Jonathan's Halloween Party (on Halloween night). And we plan on wearing them to the local F&F Ball (if it is ever held on a different night than OUR party).
but part of me feels lazy 'repeating' the costume.
Kudo's to all of you who take the time to even wear a costume. My hubby is not much into dressing up in anything besides jeans and t-shirts unless we go to a wedding or a funeral and he "has" to wear something else I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I left my job two years ago. I miss it! My last costume was Malificent, the evil Disney Queen.
Every year I make a new costume from scratch, often I have to make more than one! I have been many things ranging from film characters to old favourites such as zombies, witches and vampires. Last year I went as Akasha from "Queen of the Damned", Tia Dalma/Calypso from "POTC", the Wicked Witch of the West from "Wizard of Oz" and Bellatrix Lestrange from "Harry Potter"....... it was an awful lot of work.
This year, I'm thinking of making a really awesome "Corpse Bride" costume from scratch and wearing that to multiple Halloween events
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I would love to Madame Turlock, but I'm not a great seamstress. I tend to knock things up more for effect than durability and I'd be too afraid of someone running back with shaking fists to tell me that their skirt has unravelled on the way to the party lol
I do love designing them though, and I love modifying outfits/recycling old clothing into costumes, although these days costumes tend to revolve around whatever my dreadlocks are doing hehe
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magickbean, corspebride costume would be so awesome! and i have full faith that you will do it justice! and you could make some cool bluish dreads to match her hair, but you're probably all stocked up on every color that you would ever need for anything.
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i've got no one on my side and surely that ain't right.
unless we go to a wedding or a funeral and he "has" to wear something else 
I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I left my job two years ago. I miss it! My last costume was Malificent, the evil Disney Queen.
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