For the first time in a really long time I have to wear a costume for a Halloween party. Looking for cheap and easy ideas. Hubby needs a costume too, so duo ideas would be great.
Harry Potter is really easy–get some inexpensive black graduation gowns from thrift shop & carry small broom from craft shop. You can wear scarves the correspond with the “house” your prefer.
I’m going to be a bridesmaid. There are plenty of bridesmaid dresses at the consignment shops. I think I will look lovely. If my husband needs a costume…we have a tux here, and he can be an usher.
We haven’t been invited to a Halloween party in years.
I have an Eyeore costume from the Disney Store but I can only wear it if it’s really cold out…its a heavy fleece.
I saw this today and had to chuckle - a bar of soap and loofah!
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I used to enjoy being “Cinderalla at midnite,” where I’d wear a lovely long dress and a t’shirt dress. You fold the pretty dress in half and use safety pins to attach it to the casual t-shirt dress so you’re “in transition” from finery to “rags.” Your H could wear a tux or suit and be Prince Charming. 
Make him carry one of your loveliest shoes.
I have seen some variations of the characters in “Gilligan’s Island” by couples and they are usually a big hit. Easy costumes to pull together and people in their 40’s and 50’s will remember the series. I have all the DVD’s and showed them to my own children who loved them.
Years ago H and I went as “cave people.” Got fake furs and leather andwore them around appropriate places . Messed up Blair. H dud not shave for a day or so. String shoes.
Another couple were " bag people." Scruffy clothes and lots of bags. This one may not be in the best of taste in this day and age. It certainly was not meant to be offensive back then.
Last year hubby and I were Flo from Progressive and Mayhem from the Allstate commercials. Pretty easy.
If I am ever going to a Halloween party, I am usually coming up with a costume five seconds before I’m walking out the door. A good two-second costume is drycleaning. Wear a blue blazer; disassemble and reassemble the paper at the top of the drycleaning on the front and back of the blazer; put on drycleaning plastic like a poncho; and affix the hanger to a headband. Use the kind of hanger with a cardboard rod; cut the middle of the cardboard so there is a headband sized gap; glue the ends of the hanger to the headband. Voila, a five minute costume. Kind of dumb but no dumber than lots of other costumes that take a lot more effort.
Margot and Richie Tenenbaum, from the Royal Tenenbaums, make a good Halloween costume pair, especially if you happen to have a blond bob. A trip to the thrift store for a polo shirt / dress and a ratty old fur coat may be required. A polo shirt, sweat band, corduroy blazer and beard for hubby and you are all set. Easy and cool costume.
By far the coolest couple at the last Halloween party I went to were dressed up as Dia de los Muertos figures. Faces painted with skull makeup in the style of the Dia de los Muertos skulls (flowers, etc); big Frida-Kahlo-like flowers in hair; Mexican embroidered dress for the wife; hubby gets a suit with black shirt. Search Dia de Los Muertos costumes for ideas. The couple at the party I went to looked stunning.
Nottelling, you will appreciate it. I was told a story that a bunch of lawyers had a theme - dress like your favorite (or not!) Supreme Court case. The winner was a costume of Alice (of the wonderland fame) supplemented with a placard that said something like “your piece of crap code is patent-ineligible.” Someone dressed like Hobby Lobby (I’m not sure what that involved).
That’s really funny!
A lion and a dentist…too soon?
I’m going as Donald a Trump this year. I need to practice putting on my toupe.
I like the Flo and Mayhem idea. That might be something I can talk hubby into. Apparently, the dentist and the lion is the hot costume this year in addition to Donald Trump. PETA’s take on it is my favorite. http://www.petacatalog.com/clothingaccessories/cecils-revenge-halloween-costumep
A few years ago H and I dressed as jewel thieves. Black shirts,pants and gloves, black knit hats, bandannas on our faces. We carried a pillowcase that we stuffed with newspaper to look full and I bought some fake beads and bling which I arranged to show coming out of the bag. We also carried flashlights.
It was easy and cheap.
Flo and Mayhem? It would be lost on me. We’ve gone as political candidates. One time friends of ours came as the 1% and we came as the 99%. We’ve come as Star Trek characters (bought costumes) and Matrix characters (mostly thrift store stuff plus sunglass.) By far our best campus though was the year I came as Jack the Ripper (black suit plus top hat) and my husband came as a victim - long dress from the thrifts store, fishnet stockings. We have a neighborhood Halloween party - he comes as something different every year, but she always comes as a chef. Very easy.
Mr & Mrs Incredible. Red tights, Red shirt. Black athletic panty/tight. Black boots. Homemade “I” emblem for the shirt.
Years ago we were the Fairly Odd Parents. Is that still on? That was easy, similar to Incredibles.