Favorite Costume as a Child

[CoolDJTV]

Originally Posted by Zombie-F

I think the coolest character I was would have been Freddy Krueger, but my favorite was the Dracula costume I wore about four years in a row. I think it must be the teeth and the cape -- they make you feel kind of powerful.

What was your favorite costume from your childhood?

that's mine, gotta love good old Dracula

[Acid PopTart]

Originally Posted by wormyt

Well the only one picture I ever even remembered having of me in costume was back in 1963 of me and my brother LOL. I will always remember these costumes coming in boxes and the flimsy mask we wore back then LOL. But I had my mom about five years ago search for this pic and she sent it to me. LOL......

I love seeing old pictures like these, that is fantastic!

Originally Posted by Brad Green

It was a Ben Cooper Dracula costume in the early sixties. Liked it so much that I still have it in the box to this day.

Oh wow, you still have it? I wish I had mine still, I fondly remember theWonder Woman and Isis one. (I'm Greek/Egyptian and was made aware of my heritage early on. To a kid, having a heroine from your neck of the woods so to speak, even if it wasn't a real island, was really cool.)

Think you might display it some how? I found some old Cooper masks at the thrift store, found some scrapbook frames that should work perfectly for them.

Originally Posted by debbie5

Fortune telling machine. Try carrying a refrigerator box on you all day when you are in 6th grade.

Oh wow, that is awesome! Very creative!

Originally Posted by Pumpkin5

My sister made a ghost costume for me when I was 9 (she was only 16) that I absolutely loved! It had layers and layers of very thin lingerie fabric and it really flowed out when I walked, just like you imagine a ghost would look. I felt like a real Halloween soul that year! Like I was really transformed into ghost. My sister is a genius seamstress and should probably have been a clothes designer. She is so talented and she and I are both Halloween lovers! (or Halloween freaks as we call ourselves....)

That sounds really awesome.... I was the older sister and made my brother many of his costumes. I love how your sister really transformed you, the magic of this holiday.

Originally Posted by Lord Homicide

Skeletor!

Yes! To be honest, I still want to make an Evil Lyn costume, probably her latest redesign from the comic.

So many great stories! I don't know if I remember a favorite. I dressed as either Wonder Woman, a witch, Princess Leia or Isis for well, all the time. I was also obsessed with Zorro. While most people have pictures of themselves in summer outfits or first day at school, mine are littered with theorist fashion mistakes: my mother's go-go boots, leotards, capes and swords. Floppy hats optional. When Star Wars first came out, mum said I insisted on wearing side buns everyday to school till she chopped my beyond the bum hair off about a year later. These were also my Halloween costumes. I was obsessed that I could fly so WW and witches were a favourite. I jumped off the roof several times, I do not advise doing this with a broom.

From my childhood, one of my favourite costumes is for my little brother. He was 3 or 4 and wanted to be a punk rocker. Next door was a Halloween party my mum was at. I was old enough and told her I would bring my brother over once we were ready. I vaguely remember tearing up some clothes which mum was furious over and borrowing some of her jewelry for chains but nothing compared to what I did to his hair. I didn't know how to do a proper mohawk at the time, I was 10 or something. So I used Vasoline. The whole tub. She cursed me seven ways to Sunday trying to wash that stuff out of his hair. Still one of my fondest memories.

[Gorylovescene]

When I was young I dressed up as Dracula a couple of year in a row- I was semi-obsessed with vampires. Of course, this was before any decent looking vampire costumes came out. I thought the girl vampire costumes were incredibly lame, so I dressed up as a boy.
Turns out that was a sign of things to come. A lot of the opera roles I get also require me to dress up as boys :-P

[Gorylovescene]

Ohh- and in 3rd grade, at a time when I was really into wrestling (the fake kind) I dressed up as Hulk Hogan. I followed the next year up with the Little Mermaid, which is probably the most risque costume I've ever worn lol. (a tube top, instead of sea shells, so there were no wardrobe malfunctions). I wish I knew where those pictures were. If I can manage to find them I will post them.

[BioHazardCustoms]

My favorite was always death or a vampire. I used to be claustrophobic, so I couldn't wear masks. Nowadays, the smell of grease paint always gets me in the mood for Halloween. I keep a small pat of it around, and occasionally we will pull out the giant face paint box and paint each other's faces. Says the guy with 40+ masks hanging around in boxes.

[austenandrews]

My favorite was either when I dressed as the drummer from the band KISS or more likely, Nightcrawler from the X-Men comics.

In my early 20's I was in one of those medieval reenactment groups and married a seamstress. After that I generally had really cool costumes, but since they were the same outfits I wore on other occasions, the appeal of costumes on Halloween kinda faded a bit. These days I barely have time for a costume! But I'm determined to make one this year, even though I'll be sitting unseen behind a huge puppet most of the night.

[kprimm]

I have a new costume every year, so I have to say my favorite is whatever my current costume is going to be. Although I did a very cool zombie one year that really sticks out in my mind. And of course from my childhhod years, the Ben Cooper, and Collegeville stuff still brings back very happy memories of bygone Halloween nights.

[GrimmEverafter]

I was a sort of reaper once when I was eight. It was as simple as getting a black witch dress (which I miss, since it was neither revealing nor gaudy), a cloak, a prop scythe blade, a wooden dowel as tall as I was, and a fake lantern. I tied the lantern to one end of the stick, and the blade just above it. All I did for makeup was a bit of lipstick to pale down my lips and some hair coloring, but that was it. It was simple, and it was amazing C: Better than my attempt at Bunnicula XP (which my sister described as, and I quote, '...a burnt piece of toast with rabbit ears and some jam.' )

[Dr. Maniaco]

The only store-bought costume I ever had was Batman ... the nylon jammie-type with the plastic mask w/elastic string. Loved it. Most of the time though, my Mom would put one of her scarfs around my head, a clip-on gold loop earring, and draw a mustache on me so I could be a pirate. Loved Pirates, even then.

[sparky]

My favorite costume was a ghost...a white sheet with two holes cut out ,but i had a cool top hat and my favorite.... a huge bow tie . I felt like i was a dressed up ghost not your everyday scary ghost......