Are you making your own costume for Halloween?

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Permalink Reply by Flamekebab on October 24, 2007 at 5:03pm

Hmm, not sure if I'll fab' one this year, but last year I built a HEV suit (as in Half-life). My girlfriend at the time was a massive HL2 fan, so she went as Alyx. I fired up my cardboard-mason skills and scratch-built a HEV suit:

Nerdy?
You betcha!
You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find glasses with those frames! (there's no glass in 'em)

My external hard drive recently kicked the bucket, so I have no photos of her costume, but whatever. Hers was damn good too though. Tragically, the party we were at had several geeks and still virtually no-one knew who the hell we were! PWNED!

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Permalink Reply by Zadi on October 24, 2007 at 5:06pm

Oh, that is pretty awesome. :)

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Permalink Reply by Flamekebab on October 24, 2007 at 5:16pm

I think this year I'll just say "fuck it" and throw on my 40s-style bomber jacket, a white tshirt and some aviators.
That and I'm not lugging a whole HEV suit on the train!

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Permalink Reply by Imaevilninja17 on October 24, 2007 at 8:17pm

Thats awesome! I'm diy-ing it this year too. Im goin as a zombie nurse...like the ones from silent hill!

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Permalink Reply by anabee on October 24, 2007 at 7:46pm

wow that's super creative, it looks very intricate
I'm thinking of skipping the costume thing this year it's too late for me to make something, and I don't like half-assing stuff

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Permalink Reply by Derek on October 24, 2007 at 9:43pm

Well, I don't usually dress up. Since I have kids, I usually get them into costumes and then throw on my black karate gi (real gi) and go out with them.

Last year, it was SOO fricken hot in the gi that this year I wanted something else. I went to party city and got a sheik outfit - head-piece, gown with vest, and waist rap. Not "DIY" - but sharing never-the-less.

It's made of very thin material, so I should be cooler this time.

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Permalink Reply by Mayank on October 25, 2007 at 4:27am

actually since this halloween im taking all my cousins trick or treating (all 16 of them) im gonna dress up as well but havent ever done it before....im in a conundrum of sorts actually stuck between two choices.....gandhi with boxing gloves and a mouthguard or as freddie.....i know i know im not the most imaginative person...sniff :(

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Permalink Reply by Ulrich on October 26, 2007 at 3:18am

I don't know if I'll dress up this Halloween. I am always out of ideas. Two years ago, it consisted of a blonde wig (I guess I was trying for some kind of hippie thing). Later in the evening, some of girls wanted to put some makeup on me with some interesting results.



In the beginning of this month, we have a large party at our student residence (or whatever it is called). There are four blocks (each with 6 hallways), which take turn organizing it each year. This year it was our block organizing it. Each hallway and their kitchen have a bar theme. We have a Prison Bar, so most of us were dressed as prison inmates. There were a range of different prisoner outfits. Some had orange boilersuits. Other were in black and white stripes (me among others, courtesy of a can of black spray paint). And the others were dressed as The Beagle Boys (blue cap, black mask and a red shirt with the white number tag on it).

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Permalink Reply by ksawyer on October 26, 2007 at 7:43am

I don't have pictures yet, but my girlfriend and I are making matching Harvey Birdman/Birdgirl costumes for funzies.

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Permalink Reply by anabee on October 26, 2007 at 5:49pm

brock samson, that's so cool, I love the Venture bros.

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Permalink Reply by Maiflowers on October 26, 2007 at 6:20pm

I'm being a pash vampire. I went to value village (my local thrift shop) and got a red dress that is really poffy on the bottom and over top I found a nice top and I went to good will and found a wide brim hat. I ordered a long red ciggarette holder and fangs. I'm making my make up really elegent and cat like, and I bought fake (pre painted black) nails to finish it off... and vola my original costume for under 20 bucks.

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Permalink Reply by Wardere on October 26, 2007 at 7:32pm

I guess this is where we post our picture. I am "Inside Man" (LOL)

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