Directors may not run around in berets and puffy pants much these days, but if you were going to dress up as a modern-day director that would probably just mean jeans and a T-shirt, and that’s not much of a costume.
You will need:
Tall black boots
Puffy pants
A clapboard
A megaphone (a rolled-up piece of black construction paper works great)
A beret
A toy video camera or one cut out of cardboard
Do you even need to ask who our preferred Willy Wonka is? Gene Wilder, duh.
You will need:
A brown top hat
A gold-topped cane (real gold, of course)
A ruffled dress shirt or vest
A purple velvet coat
Brown dress shoes
For an added touch, carry some candy with you (for the sake of people who don’t “get it” and really need to be hit over the head).
“Don’t have a cow, man.” “Eat my shorts.” “Ay caramba!” Now that you’ve got all of Bart’s catchphrases down, here’s how you dress as him for Halloween.
You will need:
A red shirt
Blue shorts
A slingshot
A skateboard
Blue high tops
An (empty) can of spraypaint
Image via in.com.
’80s heavy metal star outfits make for such great Halloween costume inspiration, it’s sometimes hard to remember people used to wear this stuff seriously.
You will need:
A denim vest
A toy electric guitar (or one cut out of cardboard)
Crazy jewelry. Just pile it on.
Converse sneakers or black boots
Anything leopard print
But really, the ingredients to this costume are totally up to your imagination.
Rent some old Charlie Chaplin movies to get you in the spirit of this costume.
You will need:
A black bowler hat
A fake Charlie Chaplin mustache (or draw one on with face paint)
A cane
A tie
A vest
We totally get that most farmers don’t dress like this anymore. But the old-timey, totally stereotypical image of a farmer just happens to be so darn loveable.
You will need:
Overalls
A plaid shirt
A straw hat
A piece of straw to chew on
A stuffed barnyard animal
Some kid-friendly (read: plastic) farming tools (don’t make the same mistake we did by Googling “fake hoe”)
We spent an unreasonable amount of time on today’s Costume Recipe, because we wanted to honour its subject: the beloved Pee-Wee Herman. We’ve previously posted about how much he means to us. And what better way to show it than dressing up as him this Halloween?
You will need:
A red bow tie
A grey suit (check the racks at your local thrift shop, make sure it’s at least one size too small)
White loafers and white socks (or rock the white platform shoes he wore in the infamous “Tequila” scene in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure)
A bit of red lipstick and pink blush
A dollop of gel to slick your hair back
A red bike (though good luck finding one as awesome as Pee-Wee’s)
Image via Hankblog.
