When the spookiest night of the year is dawning upon you, there’s always this feeling that every cool costume has been done before. Coming up with some seriously mad idea is never easy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rock an original look.
Just take a look at the ingenious people who nailed Halloween like it was a walk in the park in the list below. The magic formula (probably) doesn’t exist, but thinking outside the box, picking up fun cultural references everyone can relate to, and getting your thread and needle working may do the job.
From the assistant to the Regional Manager to the "this is fine" meme, the award for the best Halloween costume goes to...
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I Grew My Hair Out For Over A Year To Be Bob Ross For Halloween. My Wife Was A Happy Little Tree
Alien Abduction Costume
This Halloween was very different from the previous ones. It turns out, this year, more Americans bought costumes for their pets and transformed them into hot dogs, superheroes, cats, pumpkins, and bumblebees. This new trend can be attributed to pandemic-induced social distancing that took traditional Halloween activities like parties, dinners, and trick-or-treating off the menu.
"This is fine" meme has turned out to be one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year, winning hearts on social media without a competition. It’s because the "this is fine" dog seen drinking coffee in a house engulfed in flames managed to perfectly capture the essence of how we all feel about this year so far.
Happy Halloween?
Both Photos Are Me, Two Years And 220 Pounds Lighter. Luigi-Time!
"What Are You Supposed To Be?" "Nun Of Your Business"
Bored Panda reached out to Lydia Garcia, a visual artist from Austin, Texas who also pulled off “the costume of our times,” “this is fine” meme, for Halloween. Lydia said that she, her other half named Trevor, and their new corgi they got during lockdown were trying to stay positive amid these challenging times.
“We tried to find laughter out of all the insanity and we thought this meme encompassed our feelings with every piece of bad news we've seen this year.”
Lydia added that his year, she missed out on seeing friends and family and the neighborhood in costume, and “that was a bummer.” On the other hand, the couple still “could still enjoy the spooky movie nights and Schitt's Creek costumes everyone killed it on.”
For My Son's First Halloween, We Were The Addams Family
Our Son Was Born At 25 Weeks Almost 2 Months Ago. His Nurse Made Him This Epic Costume
There's No Crying In Baseball
Many people have turned to spooky DIY in the comfort of their homes and shared their Halloween transformations on social media. The Queen of Halloween, Heidi Klum, famous for intricate costumes and yearly Halloween bashes, was no exception.
This year, she unveiled her costume in an unusual format—a video filmed at home where she and her family transformed into mummies and zombies.
My Son’s Hand Made Halloween Costume. He’s Been Working On It Since April
Wow, that's not a costume, that's a lifestyle, i am really impressed <3
I Made This Barn Owl Costume For Halloween
I Am Groot
My Friend Had An Incredible Grace Jones Costume For Halloween
Probably The Best Halloween Costume This Year
I Finished Making My Son’s Halloween Costume And I Think It Turned Out Pretty Cool
My Assistant To The Regional Manager
My Wife And I Made Our First Annual Halloween Card! "American Pandemic, 2020"
The Unsung Hero, Cast Aside
Nighttime Costumes In The Hansa Park Germany
Heavy Metal Rock Band
Trying Out Halloween Looks
My 3year Old Nephew As A Cowboy Today! Only Did Trick Or Treat At My House But Still Dressed Up
Someone Suggested I Post My Halloween Costume Here
My Daughter Nailed Her Minister Of Silly Walks Costume
My Niece Is Obsessed With Rbg And I Think She Nailed Her Halloween Costume
I Made My Three Year Old A Godzilla Costume
Our First Time Dressing Up For Halloween
Ghost Busters?
Since Dragoncon Was Canceled This Year, I Present To You My Lara Croft Cosplay
Harry And Marv Walked Into A Halloween Party I Was At. Perfection
My Halloween Costume Ft. My Pug, Chuck
Still In The Delivery Room With These Two When I Planned This
So nice to see one's dreams for one's childred realized. You've set a Shining example.
My Sweet Boy Rats Helped Me Make My Halloween Costume A Bit More Realistic
This Is How Halloween Went For Me And My Identical Twin A Few Years Ago
This May Be My Sweetest Halloween Costume Yet
Jamaica Bobsled Team Costume
My Wife Finally Let Me Pick Out The Outfits This Year
My Boy Was Freddie Mercury For Halloween
Dressed Up As My Teacher For Halloween
Te Fiti
I was going to do the moss wig, I’d make the heart with some green flowers. I even grabbed some green body makeup to make it really come to life. My goal was to make it happen on a budget, so I spent months hunting down all the pieces we’d need to pull it off. Here’s one of my inspo pictures above. I was excited because Emilia was so excited.
Never Gonna Give You Up
Stupid Sexy Flanders
"feels like I'm wearing nothing at all.... nothing at all... nothing at all..."
He Wins Halloween
My Son Wanted To Be The “Coffin Dance Guys” For His Halloween Costume
Of course I had to look up "The Coffin Dance Guys" on Youtube. *LIKED*
I don't know The "Coffin Dance Guys". But this is pretty cute and well done.
Just wait for someone to get pissy because the original meme guys were black and a white kid DARES to dress up like that Its sad thats the only thing i can think of
Costume Of The Year
Halloween Costume
Happy Halloween! This Is Fine
I Have To Wear This Outfit Everyday For Work. Today Is Especially Fun. Already Been Asked 5 Times By Strangers "What Would You Do If I Killed Your Dog?"
I'm The Only Person In My Entire Office Of 30 People Who Dressed Up Today And I'm In A Full Body Banana Suit
Our City Councillor And His Daughter Dressed As Him
$2 Black Thrift Store Pajamas And Some White Acrylic Paint! I Think I Did A Pretty Good Job
Work From Home Barbie Costume I Threw Together For A Costume Competition At Work
Happy Halloween From Me And Chewie
My Mom Is 2020 For Halloween
Felt Cute, Might Betray My Entire Character Arc And Burn Innocents Alive For No Reason Later
My Niece As The Crocodile Hunter, Isn’t She A Beaut?!?
My Mom Nailed The Mad Hatter Look This Year With Her Thrift Store Costume
Updated My Tinder In The Spirit Of Halloween
Ok Internet, We Did The Thing. Here’s My Twins As Slinky Dog
Prison Dr. Evil And Mini Me
I Scared Off A Number Of Trick-Or-Treaters With The Sign
My Daughter, The Bat
For the last year, my daughter has told me she wants to be a "spooky, scary, bloody bat" for Halloween. So I made a pattern, bought some fabrics, and made it happen! The blood will be added before Trick or Treating.
Points for the bat, points for the cute, bonus points for the sign on the wall.
My Wife & I Dressed As Refugee Tea Shop Workers
Sharing tea with a fascinating stranger is one of life's true delights.
My Buddy Is An Elementary Art Teacher, This Is How He Integrated A Mask Into His Halloween Costume
A Little Late, But Here’s My Little Chewbacca And My Girlfriend For Halloween
Finished My Swedish Chef Costume Today. Bork!
Raising Him Right- Son’s Choice Of Costume This Year
My Daughter And Husband As Toph And The Boulder. She Filled Up Her Appa With So Much Candies From Last Night's Trick Or Treating
Homemade Oogie Boogie Costume
Kif, I Have Made A Halloween Costume, Inform The Men
I’m A School Bus Driver. I Had To Do It
She Wanted To Dress As The Trunchbull So I Was Matilda
This Year, My 10-Year-Old Finally Let Me Make His Costume
My Wife Did An Amazing Cosplay Of Edward Scissorhands Today For Halloween
When All Your Co-Workers Agree To Dress Up As Smurfs This Year, But You're The Only One To Go Through With It
When Your Dog Has Spots...
The Math Department At My Former High School Decided To Dress As Dominoes For Halloween
You’ve Got A Lot To Learn About This Town, Sweetie. I Channeled My Inner Phyllis For A Halloween Event Last Weekend
After My Family Refused To Help Me Convince My Dad To Wear A Pickle Costume For Halloween, I Bought One And Sent It To Him Anyway. Reddit, Meet My Dad, Rick
Steve Harvey
My Father Made This Halloween Costume For Me When I Was Younger And I Wanted To Share
She Wanted To Be Forky. We Went With It
Chonky Velma
It took forever to find the matching orange shirt and socks. Everything bought from Amazon. The skirt actually has shorts under it!
I’m Pretty Happy With Our Couple Costume This Year
Spaceballs The Halloween Costume
For Your Costume Consideration... Handsome Squidward
We Finally Got My Father-In-Law To Play Along With Us For Halloween
I'm Your Number One Fan
My Twin Daughter's Halloween Costumes Paying Homage To The 90s Classic "Clueless"
My Wife's Custome For A Quarentined Halloween
I Saw A Magazine Cover From 1895 And I Was Obsessed With The Witch Costume On The Front, So I Decided To Make It
I Just Saw This Cute Mario Family
Society Is Never Gonna Make Any Progress Until We All Learn To Pretend To Like Each Other
My Son's Full Body Crochet Slenderman Costume
Trying Out A New Halloween Makeup Idea
Just A Genie In A Bottle, Baby
I Found Out My Goddaughter Was Was Going As Sonic For Halloween, But Was Sad She Couldn't Go Anywhere. So I Made An Eggman Costume And Drove To Her House For A Mini Party
Dwight Pumpkin Costume (Yes I Carved Out A Real Pumpkin) What Do You Guys Think?
My Son Went As Pennywise This Year
I Had To Share My Costume
Ollo Citizens Of Metrocity
My 2018 Halloween Costume Was An Omen For 2020
Kuzco And Yzma!
19 Years Ago Today, On Halloween, This Is How I Announced To My Students And Colleagues That I Was Pregnant
I Went As Rosa Diaz From Brooklyn Nine Nine This Halloween!
This Year’s Duo Costume With My Dog Was Inspired By The Great Tp Shortage Of 2020
My Sister And Her Husband Casually Dominating The Costume Game A Few Years Back
Everyone Thought We Were Teletubbies But I Know Y’all Will Get It
Do You Have Your Car Insured? We Have You Covered
My Cousins At Their Halloween Party
My Girlfriend's Wendigo Costume She Made, With A Working Jaw In The Mask When She Talks
I Wanted To Show Off My Halloween Costume Since I Like Validation
We Named Our Newborn Lincoln For The Very Purpose Of Using Link As A Nickname. So Of Course His First Halloween Costume Was A No Brainer
Was On A Budget For My Halloween Costume So I Decided To Be The Legend Himself
Me And My Friends For The School Halloween Competition! We Won Best Group
Handmade Artsy Style Cosplay Based On Kiki's Delivery Service
I made everything except for the jewelry and shoes from scratch! I wanted to go for a Kiki in college vibe for this! Sidenote: this broom is handmade by branches that fell into my yard during a land hurricane which is apparently a thing.
Our 6 Year Old As His Favorite Character Flick For Halloween. My Sister Made This Costume By Hand And The Mask Is A Modded Jurassic Park Raptor
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
I Don't Know If You Know This, But Dolphins Ain't Fish. They Is Like Us, They Is Mammaries
Edna Mode And Baby Jack Jack
Musclebob Buffpants (Spongebob With Anchor Arms)
Quarantined With A 3D Printer And Needed A Mask For Halloween... Only One Solution... Predator!
Any "Trailer Park Boys" Fans? This Is My Gender Bender Bubbles Cosplay. The Local Dispensary Is Doing Costume Contest Giveaway, Can I Get A "Decent"?
My Halloween Costume!! I’m A Gamer Grill!
My Math Teacher's Halloween Costume
This Is My NCR Ranger Halloween Costume
My Halloween Michael Myers Costume From Last Year
Had Hip Surgery On Wednesday So Great Timing For A Nancy Kerrigan Costume
Oh, Yeah!
My Wifey Killed It With Her Costume
Steampunk Plague Doctor
Halloween costume is complete! There's still some stuff I'd like to add, but due to time constraints, are going to have to wait for another time. Overall, very happy with the result.
Halloween Costume
My Handmade Halloween Costume
Full Body Crocheted Five Nights At Freddy's Costume For My Son! He's So Happy! Pit Bonnie
My Son's Handmade Skull Kid Costume
I'm 24 And Have Never Missed A Night Of Trick Or Treating, This Is This Year's Costume (Everything But The Mask Was Hand Made By Me)
My Husband Finished Our Kids' Halloween Costumes This Week. A Swat Officer & An Alien Abduction
My Halloween Costume From A Couple Years Ago. Don’t Know How I’ll Top This
Today Was Our Halloween Party At Work. That Was Really, Really Good Timing
My Families Big Lebowski Halloween!
Thought You Guys Might Like My Boyfriend And Mines Halloween Costumes We Made
Last Year I Dressed Up As A Bottle Of Purell For Halloween. Who Knew How Ahead Of The Times I Would Be
Happy Halloween
We Are... The People’s Champ
My 6-Month-Old's Halloween Costume
Halloween Costumes Last Year. Husband And Me. No One Wanted To Talk To Me
I Dressed Up As Craig Jones From Friday For My Halloween Costume
My Halloween Costume
I Was Ahead Of The Game On This One... My Halloween Costume 2 Years Ago
Last Year I Was Roasted. The Brunt Of The Insults Inspired My Will Byers Halloween Costume
My Sister (10) Wanted To Be Prison Mike For Halloween
My Lemongrab Costume From Halloween Last Year
“I’m Here To Scare You Straight!” Prison Mike And Dementor Costume
YES! THE WORST THING ABOUT PRISON WAS THE DEMENTORS! YES PAM, THEY WERE THERE!
Halloween 1998 When I Thought Dressing As A Giant Milkbone Would Make Dogs Like Me
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Mayor Of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot
Fiancé And I Made Our Own Costumes
My Dad’s Halloween Costume Of ‘78
As A Professional Social Media Manager, I Am Required By Law To Make This My Halloween Costume
Halloween Costume Entry: Global Pandamic
Start with a panda onesie: I got mine off nextdoor as someone sold it off for $15 used. Go to craft store and buy a $0.99 bag of pipe cleaners, shape them into Ts or sharp end clovers and pierce the panda fabric. Pretty cheap and easily removed. Grab a globe, stuff it with same pipe cleaners and be the best pun you can be for 2020. I'm also going to go grab a world map and make a flag out of it, but I'm not sure if I want to ruin a map for this.
“More Like Chel Dorado”
Oh that's a great movie! Super suggestive for a kids film, but fun nonetheless.
My Son Wanted To Be Old Gregg So I Assembled This Costume And Made The Wig From Fake Seaweed And A Wig Cap
My Friends And I Dressed Up As Our 'Gang Beasts' Characters For Halloween
A Medic From TF2 Costume My Dad Made For Me Back In 5th Grade
Is it only America that uses Hallowe'en for general fancy dress? In the UK, people wear costumes related to horror, death and spookiness only.
Yeah, feels like it weakens the whole Halloween vibe. Spooky is good! I prefer it more traditional rather than costumes that could be worn for any fancy dress party.
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Why are there so many people at gatherings, at parties, and in large crowds during a pandemic?!?! And the lack of masks is what's truly terrifying about these!
Some costumes don't look like costumes if it's just different style of clothing you usually wear and your hair a bit different. Some of these " costumes" seem just like non dressed up people to me. Part of the fun of dressing up is being unrecognisable imo. In the South part of the Netherlands we celebrate Carnaval 46 days before Easter, and then it's 3 days of craziness. Look up " Carnaval Maastricht" (yes, CarnAval)
My great niece combined her wedding on Halloween with a costume party this year and it was a lot of fun. I went as Robin Hood with brown tights and vest, a green shirt, and brown boots. I made a hat with green felt, attached a feather, and already had a fake mustache and goatee type beard. I bought a cheap child's bow and arrow set, cut the rubber tips off the arrows, and made my own arrow tips, with a word on each of 4 things I'd like to rid the world of, fear, ignorance, greed, and hate. The set came with a sheath and plastic knife and I made a quiver for the arrows from brown felt. Some people thought I was Peter Pan but since I like both characters, I didn't mind.
I’m feeling we’re not playing love games with Old Greg here, both costumes down the bottom? The kid’s extra adorable!
Is it only America that uses Hallowe'en for general fancy dress? In the UK, people wear costumes related to horror, death and spookiness only.
Yeah, feels like it weakens the whole Halloween vibe. Spooky is good! I prefer it more traditional rather than costumes that could be worn for any fancy dress party.
Load More Replies... Why are there so many people at gatherings, at parties, and in large crowds during a pandemic?!?! And the lack of masks is what's truly terrifying about these!
Some costumes don't look like costumes if it's just different style of clothing you usually wear and your hair a bit different. Some of these " costumes" seem just like non dressed up people to me. Part of the fun of dressing up is being unrecognisable imo. In the South part of the Netherlands we celebrate Carnaval 46 days before Easter, and then it's 3 days of craziness. Look up " Carnaval Maastricht" (yes, CarnAval)
My great niece combined her wedding on Halloween with a costume party this year and it was a lot of fun. I went as Robin Hood with brown tights and vest, a green shirt, and brown boots. I made a hat with green felt, attached a feather, and already had a fake mustache and goatee type beard. I bought a cheap child's bow and arrow set, cut the rubber tips off the arrows, and made my own arrow tips, with a word on each of 4 things I'd like to rid the world of, fear, ignorance, greed, and hate. The set came with a sheath and plastic knife and I made a quiver for the arrows from brown felt. Some people thought I was Peter Pan but since I like both characters, I didn't mind.
I’m feeling we’re not playing love games with Old Greg here, both costumes down the bottom? The kid’s extra adorable!
