5 characteristics of a great halloween costume
It seems that people either love or hate Halloween. I love it, though don’t always partake every year because I think enjoyment is directly correlated with level of confidence in one’s costume choice. Unfortunately waiting until last minute is my forte so I’m not often prepared with a creative costume.
This year, I observed a few characteristics that make a great Halloween costume. The more characteristics from this list, the better, as TJ did in this picture which made it one of my favorite costumes of the night. Perhaps these will help me next year.
- Cardboard: Costumes that use cardboard in any way are usually pretty solid. At minimum, you know the person put some effort into it and that they aren’t out to join the caravan of “sexy” costumes because there’s nothing sexy about cardboard.
- Inanimate objects: To me, the best costumes turn people into things (or is it the other way around?). Case in point: It takes a special kind of clever to conceive of turning yourself into a taco.
- Repetition: What’s more amusing that one person being something is multiples of that same thing like crayons or the 1996 Olympic gymnastics team, which we were?
- Timely commentary: I like when people make a statement with their costume. There was a guy last night who was a “death panel” - a cardboard with a face cut out that had lots of made up statistics and graphs about who will be selected to die first.
- Coordination: Like cardboard, coordinated costumes (and I don’t just mean couple costumes like Mr. and Mrs. or Mario and Luigi) indicate some solid forethought. The two best last night were E.T. and his trick-or-treating friends (from the scene in E.T.) and a guy with a blow up plane on his head with 3 people as the runway crew with light sabers.
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