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Unique Halloween Costume
Making a Unique Halloween Costume
Making a unique Halloween costume takes a considerable
amount of time and effort, but in the end it is well
worth it – especially if the costume you’re making is to
be judged on merits of creativity in a Halloween costume
contest of some sort. The best Halloween costumes that
are made at home can be categorized three different
ways; in terms of humor, the fright factor, and outright
originality. Sometimes the three categories can cross
each other as well. A frightening costume can be very
original as well and an original costume can often be
very humorous. More often than not these are the
costumes that win contests at Halloween and are the most
talked about by those in attendance at the party or
event.
Scary stuff is what Halloween is all about, isn’t it?
What was one of the scariest movies of the seventies?
John Carpenter’s Halloween. ‘Nuff said? From an
anthropological standpoint, the festivals that led to
our modern celebration of Halloween were created in an
attempt to both honor the dead and allow the people in
the societies that developed them to have a better
understanding of their own mortality.
They were also seen as a time when the gods or the
spirits walked freely among men and modern Neo-Pagan
religions teach that the festival of Samhain (which is a
Celtic name for Halloween – it is pronounced “sow-in”)
celebrates the night of the year when the “veil between
the worlds” is at its thinnest, making it a good night
for divination, necromancy (divination by means of
communion with the deceased), and “magick.” So, it makes
sense that we see Halloween as a “scary” celebration
today.
Some of the best and most unique Halloween costumes are
truly frightening. Here the gore factor comes into play.
With Hollywood style make-up, one can become a ghoulish
zombie of a half-human beast. If you’re going for scary
in your costume design, let your imagination run away
and carry you into the darkest corners of your mind. You
may be surprised by what you find lurking there.
Lots of unique Halloween costumes are funnier than they
are scary. If you’re going for humor, however, you had
better make sure that everyone gets the joke. Nothing is
worse than creating a truly unique costume that you
think is uproariously funny and no one else understands
it. Unfortunately, low-brow humor often works best here.
You can come up with a costume that is a play on, say
the works of Shakespeare, and you may have one or two
people in a crowd that appreciate it. Meanwhile, the guy
who came as a porta-potty, complete with a man inside
reading a newspaper, is getting all the laughs.
To be truly original in your Halloween costume design is
going to take some work. It can be done, however. The
porta-potty described above is a good example. That was
a real costume that someone created for an office party
and, yes, it won the costume contest. Another good
example (this came in second at the same party) is the
three women – one Caucasian and two African-American –
who came as an Oreo cookie. With a little creativity,
you can make a unique Halloween costume like these or
better.
About the Author
Abe Gardea is a full-time freelance writer and a
contributor to
http://www.Halloween-Decoration-n-Halloween-Costumes.com
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