Halloween Costumes! (For someone with not so good self esteem)

I just got thrown on me that people dress up hard core at the new company I work for (for halloween of course).

I haven't dressed up for halloween since I was like 12.

I have lost 175 pounds, so I don't want to show my arms, or legs, and I don't want anything clinging to my body.

Ideas? I want out of the box fun ones.

Thanks for the help!

pirate

mummy

sarah palin (all you need is a power suit, hair in a bun, a little lipstick, extreme radical right rhetoric and ta da)

Sumo wrestler? They have blow-up costumes that cover your arms and legs with a small motor that keeps it blown up around you.

You could go as peace and quiet - dress up as a hippie with big peace symbol necklace, and paint your face like a mime.

Punk rocker - get a crazy colored wig to wear, and carry around a toy guitar

I went as a q-tip last year - dress all in white with a fuzzy hat (I forgot fuzzy slippers) and wrap white poster board around your middle. Not so good if you have to sit though, and one person guessed I was dressed up as a tampon.

This guy last year came as a picnic.. he got a big piece of cardboard, glued a cheap table clothe to it, and then glued mustard, ketchup, plastic ants, paper plates ect... to that... it was genius!

Wear a sheet and be a picnic table.

Tin foil + barrette with fake butter/square of yellow paper = baked potato

PJs + pillow + Stuffed Animal = Sleep over kid

Really long sleeved shirt + white fabric belt/strips = Insane asylum escapee

Cardboard box + some doodling fun = Your favorite cereal

Devil's horns & Horn + white felt sewn in the shape of an egg for your body + yellow felt circle on the front = deviled egg

 

Gah double post.

I think someone posted a really cute picture of themselves dressed up as a football player last year....it was cute & totally different from the typical, "it is Halloween, so I have an excuse to dress way too sexy." So refreshing to see...

I work right next door to a costume shop. This one deals with theatres and actors, so it's there all year round, but some of them pop up just for Halloween. Go in and look around...they have great stuff. One year, we had a bowling team called "The Flying Monkeys" and a friend rented a flying monkey suit and stood outside the bowling alley just for kicks. I'm seriously thinking of doing that this year. I mean, how cool is a flying monkey?

once for halloween i wore one of those blow up costumes.. so it looked like i was riding an ostrich.. pretty hilarious. your legs are covered and you can wear a long sleeve shirt, and still look good :) i prefer to wear fun costumes anways

Original Post by bagga:

sarah palin (all you need is a power suit, hair in a bun, a little lipstick, extreme radical right rhetoric and ta da)

Don't forget the rifle and NRA card!

I'm a female redhead but am thinking of going as the  prop comic CarrotTop.  All I need is a muscle shirt and to make a few of his props.

Normal.  Hah!

I loooove dressing up. I made a comment on danielnotdan's journal the other day saying I should dress up as scales for Halloween and get someone to pair up as a tape measure - the dieter's worst enemy! It'd scare someone!

You could always go as Death. Big, black, flowing robes, pale make-up, skeletal gloves... and along with a plastic scythe, a suitcase packed with ads for life insurance.

Or go as a pirate. But not your typical pirate - a fedora, dark glasses, big trenchcoat and another suitcase. Except this one'd be full of DVDs.

Hohoho.