The Non-Expert
At-Home Halloween Costumes
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week THE EDITORS help a young woman work through a desperate situation: What to wear this year on Halloween?
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Question: You guys have any Halloween costumes I can put together? Last year my boyfriend and I went as a bus full of nuns in a car accident—so not happening again.—Katherine B.
Answer: We hate to hike old trails. How about costumes you can build with three items available in the typical American household?
Ingredients: Sunglasses, a white dress shirt, men’s briefs
Costume: Tom Cruise
Ingredients: Sunglasses, a white dress shirt, boxers
Costume: Truman Capote
Ingredients: Three cardigans
Costume: Edith Bouvier Beale (Grey Gardens)
Ingredients: Car battery, a pair of googly-eye glasses, and a Steve Gutenberg poster
Costume: Johnny Five (Short Circuit)
Ingredients: Pipes, more pipes, a ringing telephone
Costume: Danny Boy
Ingredients: White pants, white T-shirt, a bucket of red paint
Costume: A house painter
Ingredients: Black pants, white T-shirt, a bucket of red paint
Costume: A newspaper
Ingredients: Tuxedo shirt, dead body, ketchup
Costume: Vampire
Ingredients: Tuxedo shirt, dead body, Worcestershire sauce
Costume: Waiter in a vampire restaurant
Ingredients: Black turtleneck, black stretch pants, white face paint
Costume: Mime
Ingredients: Black turtleneck, black stretch pants, pixie appeal
Costume: GAP commercial
Ingredients: Three pairs of socks
Costume: A dog
Ingredients: Karate top, tube socks, Maglite
Costume: Luke Skywalker
Ingredients: Three footnotes
Costume: Mark Foley (because they come on the bottom of a page)
Ingredients: Two bungee cords and a blond wig
Costume: Marilyn Monroe
Ingredients: Bandana, cowboy hat, toy gun
Costume: John Wayne
Ingredients: Bandana, clown make-up, real gun
Costume: John Wayne Gacy
Ingredients: Three pairs of contact lenses
Costume: Steve Buscemi
Ingredients: The truth, three chords, red guitar
Costume: Bob Dylan
Ingredients: The truth, three chords, red iPod
Costume: Bono
Ingredients: Bone, thugs, and harmony
Costume: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Ingredients: Black shirt, black leather pants
Costume: David Copperfield
Ingredients: Black shirt, black leather pants, concho belt
Costume: Sexy David Copperfield
Question: You guys have any Halloween costumes I can put together? Last year my boyfriend and I went as a bus full of nuns in a car accident—so not happening again.—Katherine B.
Answer: We hate to hike old trails. How about costumes you can build with three items available in the typical American household?
Ingredients: Sunglasses, a white dress shirt, men’s briefs
Costume: Tom Cruise
Ingredients: Sunglasses, a white dress shirt, boxers
Costume: Truman Capote
Ingredients: Three cardigans
Costume: Edith Bouvier Beale (Grey Gardens)
Ingredients: Car battery, a pair of googly-eye glasses, and a Steve Gutenberg poster
Costume: Johnny Five (Short Circuit)
Ingredients: Pipes, more pipes, a ringing telephone
Costume: Danny Boy
Ingredients: White pants, white T-shirt, a bucket of red paint
Costume: A house painter
Ingredients: Black pants, white T-shirt, a bucket of red paint
Costume: A newspaper
Ingredients: Tuxedo shirt, dead body, ketchup
Costume: Vampire
Ingredients: Tuxedo shirt, dead body, Worcestershire sauce
Costume: Waiter in a vampire restaurant
Ingredients: Black turtleneck, black stretch pants, white face paint
Costume: Mime
Ingredients: Black turtleneck, black stretch pants, pixie appeal
Costume: GAP commercial
Ingredients: Three pairs of socks
Costume: A dog
Ingredients: Karate top, tube socks, Maglite
Costume: Luke Skywalker
Ingredients: Three footnotes
Costume: Mark Foley (because they come on the bottom of a page)
Ingredients: Two bungee cords and a blond wig
Costume: Marilyn Monroe
Ingredients: Bandana, cowboy hat, toy gun
Costume: John Wayne
Ingredients: Bandana, clown make-up, real gun
Costume: John Wayne Gacy
Ingredients: Three pairs of contact lenses
Costume: Steve Buscemi
Ingredients: The truth, three chords, red guitar
Costume: Bob Dylan
Ingredients: The truth, three chords, red iPod
Costume: Bono
Ingredients: Bone, thugs, and harmony
Costume: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Ingredients: Black shirt, black leather pants
Costume: David Copperfield
Ingredients: Black shirt, black leather pants, concho belt
Costume: Sexy David Copperfield
—Published October 20, 2006
