I'm contemplating using a bridesmaid dress for a halloween costume...I'll post a picture of the recycled dress shortly...thought we could share fresh ideas on how to use these terrrible wastes of money for halloween costumes...last year i saw someone successfully pull off marie antoinette using a light blue dress she recycled and ended up winnin a costume contest for prize money!
So any original ideas other than the usuals:
Prom axe murderer
Beauty queen
Evil stepsister
A good witch
Run Away bride
Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
Carrie
I guess once I post a picture people can offer more specific uses....
Sorry for the delay! Any costume suggestions welcomed! I don't know if I'm willing to rip, tear, spray paint or destroy this dress yet...I know I probably won't wear it again but I spent so much on it I can't bring myself to abusing it...yet, if the right suggestion catches my fancy, I might have at it!
yello moon, if it is red like the pciture looks, to me it looks like a vampiress dress. I can't see the top completely, but it would need some modifying,or maybe add a a cape, or short jacket/shrug kinda thing in red or black. gothic type jewlery, . Or possibly long black gloves. I think with the basic dress you can accessorize and add other accents, it would make a great vampiress dress, all red and black. There are many ways to go about it, depending on how much time and money you want to spend.
When I was looking at a wedding dress in secondhand store(operated by a church in an old church) The one little old lady behind the counter was giving me the most evil stares.
"I'm not a pervert! I own a haunted house!" I wanted to say, but I was 2 hrs. from home.
And the main real ghost in this haunted, haunted house happens to be a woman in a long white dress !
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because of the way the dress has tucks, it reminded me for some reason of sleeping beauty. auroara. maybe a version of her waking after a 100 years and what she looked like then. maybe a jilted date gone mad. how about the song by helen reddy. poor old ruby redress mad and dancing in a room all alone. or delta dawn, with a flower pinned on and quite gone.
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because of the way the dress has tucks, it reminded me for some reason of sleeping beauty. auroara. maybe a version of her waking after a 100 years and what she looked like then. maybe a jilted date gone mad. how about the song by helen reddy. poor old ruby redress mad and dancing in a room all alone. or delta dawn, with a flower pinned on and quite gone.
All great ideas, hallorenescene! Thanks everybody, now i got choices!
YM.....I agree with you as far as trying to decide if we want to tear or rip these dresses up. I'm using 3 of the bridesmaids dresses this season in my funeral parlor scene. These are the actual dresses from my wedding. I paid for these dresses so I ended up with them because these gals all lived out of town & flew in. None of them wanted the dresses after the wedding (they were fushia with ruffles...get my drift?) along with no room to pack them in their suitcases for the return trip home. I'm sure I'll use them next year too for something different.
As with the new wedding dress I bought for this scene also. I lied....(did I say that??lol) to my hubby when I said..."I'll leave the tags on this new dress and after Halloween I'll sell it on EBAY". Too LATE!! I'm already attached to it. Thing is I had every intention after this Halloween to make that tombstone with the mourning girl laying over the top of the stone & it says "Beloved" on the stone. Everybody that makes those covers them in monster mud. The longer this dress hangs in my office & looking at it everyday I'm not sure.....ok I'm sure I can't cover it with monster mud.....Perhaps this is a mans job as I think us gals have issues when it comes to tearing up or drowning in monster mud....these beautiful dresses!lol
So yes I'm with you on not tearing them up just yet!
How to usethose old bridesmaids dresses?
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