Halloween Costumes Through the Years

It's Halloween time!!! Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year because I love to dress up. However, I'm sitting this year out. I'm pretty disappointed, but I'm not in the mood to be the extremely pregnant chick at a bar/party. I can't drink, I hate being around cigarette smoke, I look like a weeble wobble when I dance, and I feel pretty limited on good costume choices, so that doesn't make for a very good time. Instead, I'm going to live vicariously through my Halloween costumes of previous years.

The first Halloween I dressed up I was a clown. Well, I was supposed to be a clown. My mom put on my clown make-up and wig and I freaked! So in the end, I was a hobo type person with a big red bow and funny suspenders.




Another year, I was a bumble bee. Growing up, my mom made all of our Halloween costumes. And she did such an awesome job, she is pleased to learn that she'll be making her grandkids costumes as well! (I know you're super thrilled about this, Mom :))

I love the wings! (That's my Pap.)

I was an angel one year. The wings were really cool on this costume too. My mom glued tons of feathers to cardboard wings. Unfortunately, the only photo I have of that year is discolored and I look high. I'm not high, I swear. I'm also not normally so yellow.


One year, my mom turned us into a family of dancing bears. My mom, sister, and I were brown bears with tutus and my dad was a white circus bear.


When I was around 6 or 7, my sister and I dressed up as pretty princesses and my cousin dressed up in the bumble bee costume. This photo is a little blurry and discolored, but I fixed it up the best I could.


When it comes to the next two costumes, I don't remember which was first. I was older, probably around 10 and 11. I was a Southern Belle and Raggedy Ann.



After these costumes, I don't have any photos until college. Just a warning before we get to the college photos: I kinda jumped onto the "slutty Halloween" band wagon. Not as much as most college girls, but I was on the edge. My costumes were more suggestive than full out T and A. Okay...moving on.

My junior year I was a Futuristic Gladiator. This costume was hot! I wore a skin-tight pleather cat suit with a metal bra and cooch plate I found at a costume shop in State College. When I rented the bra and "panties" the clerk laughed and said I was the first person to rent it in like 3 years. Figures. Haha! To finish off the costume I bought a silver wig and light saber type sword and gun. I have never had my ass slapped so much and guys kept trying to steal my weapons!


For Senior year Halloween, I was Betty Boop. I was also Betty Boop my Freshman year, but different school, so I was okay with repeating costumes. How do you like me with that hair?


For my Super Senior year (yes, it took my 5 years to finish college), I was a birthday cake. I had found the hat a few months earlier and thought it would be so awesome to make a costume around the hat. The funniest thing about the costume was that people thought it was actually my birthday. I was just like, "Well, are you really a fairy/lady bug/whatever costume you're wearing?" Drunk college students are not the brightest crayons in the box.


During my sister's senior year of college, we dressed up as construction workers. More specifically, we were the "Banger Sisters Construction Est. 1969." We made t-shirts and one of us wore a shirt that read, "Do you want to get nailed? or..." and the other wore a t-shirt that read, "Do you want to get screwed? or..." Our tools of the trade were...well, let's just say we spent a fortune at a store called "Cupids" My favorite part of the costume though was our hard hats that we covered in stickers including one that read, "Sisters Are Super!"


By the next year, Stonewall and I were engaged and so we had a whole group to dress up. My sister, Meg, wanted to go as Raggedy Ann, so Stonewall, his sister, Dani, and I jumped on board and we went as characters from "Toy Story." Meg was Raggedy Ann, Stonewall was Woody, Dani was one of the plastic soldiers, and I was Bo Beep. Stonewall's costume was hilarious! All night long people kept asking if he was "Brokeback Mountain." At first, he was like, "No!" but as the night wore on and the beer kept flowin' Stonewall decided "Brokeback Mountain" was funnier than Woody. Also, we attached a plastic ring to his back which was Woody's voice pull cord. Whenever someone pulled it rather than saying, "There's a snake in my boot," Stonewall would say, "There's a snake in my pants." That's my hub! :)


And then last year, was my favorite costume of all time. Dani, Meg, and I dressed up as the Chipettes. We ended up having to make most of the costume pieces (Who am I kidding? My mom made most of the costume pieces) and we looked fabulous!


Happy Halloween!