Do-It-Yourself Halloween Costumes: Awesome or Eh?

my bf made this costume himself =)

its AWSOME!!!!

I like the ones I have done, all home made. Jebuz Christ, a damn fine Klingon, and Lord Siva. All for parties. Halloween is a Discordian holy day.

hey, if you have the skills to make your own costume I say go for it. If you don't actually have the skills (which, for most costumes, are not that difficult to acquire) then please don't though, you'll just end up disappointing everyone involved. I've made most of my hallowe'en costumes for the last 14 years of my life, including this year, and I'm planning on making one next year too. Thrift stores and your grandmother's closet are excellent places to find great stuff for making costumes. @Blackberry Graz, yes hallowe'en is about spirits and devils and stuff, even us good Christians don't pretend it isn't. It's the one day a year that we get to give in to our innate fascination with evil and darkness. Everyone, even you has this inner dark part, we just admit it but you apparently don't. Oh well, the worst that could happen is that you end up with a mental disorder because you've been repressing all this stuff for so long, while we've all been happily letting it out once a year.

My sons and I went slightly retro this year and dressed up as the Simpsons the Saturday before Halloween. Ha! I was Lisa, my yongest boy-Homer and my oldest-Bart...won 3rd in a costume contest in Houston. 300 or so participants and 6 categories. On the actual day of Halloween they both wanted to be Michael; so I went to the thrift store, bought some plain items, bedazzled and painted them and Wah-lah! Two M.J. costumes for under $40 bucks...yeah, we rock! Lol! http://images.sodahead.com/pr...

Awesome! Store bought costumes lack creativity. I think that making your costume is part of the fun of Halloween. I always dressed my kids in homemade costumes and my rules for the costumes were that they had to use stuff they could find around the house, they could only have a maximum of 3 accessories that were bought specifically for the costume and they only had the 48 hours prior to Halloween to assemble it. Tonight, I saw so many store bought costumes that the parents probably paid at least $30 for their kids to go trick or treating for 2 1/2 hours for $6 worth of candy.

I always do them by myself like this year we cant get beer in the party so im a giant can of beer but I actuallty made a pocket full of beer a pump and I will come with some glasses

Love Halloween!

halloween is not a feast that should be celebrated, it is sorcery, i do not mean to offend the people celebrating it but the feast itself that is not supposed to be practiced. it is the worship of evil spirits and hell. sorry i was mean but that's what halloween is all about...i believe its the real truth

I made costumes for kids before my daughter, and, for my Bella, I hand sewn them...but over their coats, so they could display them.

To see their cheer and faces was great.

It works. Make sure you light them up! Hand sprays, neons...; )

I do it every year! I finished my halloween costume last monday!

A few of my friends and I went as KISS, which we made costumes for and learned to do the makeup for each other, and we looked pretty awesome.

The best kind!

A few years ago, a kid knocked on my door on Halloween night. He was about 10 years old. He wore a suit, tie, hair slicked back and he wore dracula teeth. He was carrying a briefcase which was bulging with candy.
This kid informed me he was a lawyer. And he said if I didn`t give him any candy he would sue me.
LOL I gave him candy and a dollar. The kid impressed me.

Going as The Dude this year! All DIY.

Then there are those that are Eh,..





I remember when store bought costumes consisted of a plastic suit and a facemask held in place with a rubber band that would steam up just by breathing in...

Well done home made costumes are great...I say that because it wasn't long before I was too large for the Ben Cooper boxed costumes

It is much more fun and creative making your own Halloween costume. I made Halloween costumes for my children a few times when they were young, especially for contests. I went through so much trouble making my son into a tree using a plastic trash can and tree branches. One time I made him into "Father Time" he won the contest. My younger son's father made him a real life "Jaws" costume, a lot of work.

I did once for Harry Potter, pretty funny I bet people were woundering what I was.

I have Slytherin robes and a 10th Doctor (Doctor Who) costume that are awesome. But that's probably because they're not just for Halloween, they're for cosplay. :3

We have always had a great time making costumes and doing make-up.It's a drag going out & buying them.

Back when I used to dress up for Halloween, my best costumes were the ones I made myself. The store-bought ones worked in a pinch. Now at most I just dress a bit more risque and go heavy on the make-up. It's the only time of year I can do that and not really stand out.

We always had homemade costumes when I was a kid. If my mother didn't make them for us, we made them ourselves. I usually don't go anywhere for Halloween anymore, but anytime I need a costume, I pull out the old creativity spark! I've been everything from Little Bo Peep to Medusa to a Chinese take-out box.....

I made a Slytherin Harry Potter costume, casual wear kind of thing. Grey vest, dress shirt, black pants, and a green tie. I got a wand and a green house scarf at HP World at Universal. It looks awesome :D

Some people put a lot of effort into creating their own costumes and those are often miles better than the shop brought or hired ones because the possibilities are endless....

Holy crap, that's badass.

some of them are amazing, not just halloween costumes, Comicon costumes are veerryy creative.

If they put work into it . I know this is not Halloween but they are home made.

I was a vending machine my 8th grade year! I made it out of a box, silver spray paint, empty snack bottles and such it was great! I was put into the town's newspaper.

Last Halloween. The chubby neighbour girl. She is about 11 and if you know the 'Bee Girl' from old 'Blind Melon' music videos then that is her,
but,
If only she had a bee costume. No, she made her own costume which was her Dad's bathrobe and then a thick red bath towel wrapped conically on her head. Add a rather liberal application of grandmothers red lipstick.
I said "What are you.. a stormtrooper?" and she says (obviously) "..uh no, Im a Princess!".
But let me say this - I never had to hold back so much laughter and I will never forget that costume.

especially if it's done right. diy costumes often look way better than store bought.

awesome because you have the materials and you don't have to use your money

But if you aren't any good at sewing or making things, that doesn't look too cool.

I love making my own coustume there cheapier and not as sluty

It's the ONLY way to go for me. Seriously, pre-made should ONLY be a last resort, and that's if you either don't have time to gather materials or the finances for it.

Even then, I STILL make a desperate attempt to throw something together, even if it's just simple. This year I'm going as a mad scientist; I even got costume contacts to complete the creepy look this year!

They can definitely be pretty awesome. My mom made me a cotton candy costume when I was in kindergarten. She took and old shirt of hers aand ripped up some old disposable hospital pillows *they had blue innards) and sewed the pillows to her old shirt, and took some fsbric to cover my shoes and made a hat somehow. I just out her shirt on over my normal clothes and went like that. I wish I knew where those pics were...I remember it was very warm.

Much better than the crap at the store.

My profile picture was my home made version of Waldo from 2 years ago...