subject: Easy Homemade Adult Halloween Costumes [print this page] So, it's the day before Halloween and you've been invited to a party. The theme is "Shock your Mother," but you haven't got a clue what to wear. You hunt desperately through your closet trying to find something, anything you could put on that would work, but nothing comes up. You consider going out to a store and buying or renting a costume, but then you remember, oh yeah, I'm not working. What I really need, you say to yourself, is an easy homemade adult Halloween costume. Hey, no problem. I've got your covered.
Let's take another look inside of that closet of yours and see what you can find. Got an old leather jacket? Check. Dig out that old pair of jeans you've had since college and start ripping a few holes in them. You know what to do. You need to make it look like it was cool back in the 1980s. Now go out and buy some hair jel (in a pinch, Vaseline would do, but really, dude, spend a few bucks and get the hair jel). Slick back your hair, get out a nice clean T-shirt, slide on the jacket and the jeans together with some cool boots and you are three quarters of the way to making yourself a 1980's punk rocker. If you really want to complete the look, either buy or borrow a dog collar with spikes on it and maybe even put a bit of black lipstick on. That works for both the men and the women, seriously.
Okay, here's another idea for an easy homemade adult Halloween costume that's exactly the opposite and requires almost no new purchases. The first thing you'll need is your good Sunday suit. Or if you're a woman, some kind of a pant suit business like thing. No, your nice jeans will not, emphatically not do the job here. Only a proper suit will work. You also have a nice pair of shoes, right? Dude, if you haven't got that stuff you need it anyway. There's a recession out there with 9.7% unemployment. You need a nice suit and shoes in order to land a good job.
Okay, now go and dig around for your old pair of dark sunglasses. You want one that looks cool, but I'm guessing you know that already. The wrap around kind that grandpa wears just will not cut it. Now all you need is a cheap toy machine gun (maybe ten bucks at Toys R Us) and an ear bud you don't mind destroying. You can buy one of those for 99 cents. Stick one ear bud into an ear, tuck the wire under your collar around the back, don the sunglasses and suit, hoist the machine gun across your shoulders (you've got a strap, right?) and low and behold, you're now a Secret Service agent. Congratulations on protecting the President and on creating an easy homemade adult Halloween costume. Have a happy Halloween.
