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50 Halloween Costumes You Probably Wish You Thought Of Yourself (New Pics)
The holiday season is upon us: we’ll soon be feasting upon pumpkins, followed by turkeys (plump and with tiny pilgrim hats), and, well, more turkeys (plumper and with tiny Santa hats). Since Halloween is closing in on us like the Grim Reaper, you’re probably thinking about what costume to wear if you haven’t ordered or sewn your own already.
Our Bored Panda witches and warlocks have been busy casting summoning spells and concocting the perfect list of Halloween costumes. We hope you’ll enjoy them and that they’ll inspire you to show everyone who’s boss while you’re out trick-or-treating and dancing all night long at your Halloween bash.
You think you love Halloween? Odds are, we love it more. Way more. In fact, I’m pretty sure that pumpkin juice flows through our veins. Check out Bored Panda’s posts about Halloween here, here, here, here, and here. It’s scary how many of these we’ve summoned from the Pumpkin Realm. [Roll of thunder followed by an evil cackle]
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#1
9-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Dresses Up As Beetlejuice For Halloween
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#2
My Son Is 4 With Cerebral Palsy. Every Year My Amazing Wife Builds Him A Costume To Go On His Wheelchair
He's been obsessed with Polar Express so this year he went as a train engineer. Woo woo!
#3
An 88 Year Old Woman And Her 92 Year Old Husband Attend A Halloween Party
Halloween is a great time to let out your inner creative imp. Whether you want to show off to your friends, leave a great impression on that girl or boy that you like, or scare off spooky spirits like Sam and Dean from Supernatural, it’s imperative that you look good.
And for that, you need a costume. Something different from the crowd. Something that stands out. Something that hasn’t been done before.
#4
My High School Art Teacher's Amazing Van Gogh Costume
#5
The Little Girl That Was Mesmerized By Michelle Obama's Official Portrait Last March Dressed Up As Her This Halloween
#6
Halloween At The Office
However, there’s nothing new under the sun, so instead of going for total originality that might backfire, instead, go for something a bit unusual but make your costume well.
After all, it’s the quality of the costume and your ability to roleplay that pirate/knight/Jedi/superhero that counts most, not just impressing others with your innovative ideas. We’d rather dress to the nines as Castiel (some of us already wear trench coats almost daily) than pretend to be some niche character from some show nobody’s ever seen.
#7
Best Halloween Duo I’ve Seen This Year
#8
Daughter Becomes Dad As Costume
#9
My Heart Melt When This Popped Up On My Feed
There are many traditions associated with Halloween and one of them has to do with keeping away fairies if you’re Irish or have ancestors back in the Land of a Thousand Welcomes. According to local folklore, if you don’t want your things stolen by those darn pesky fairies on October 31, you should dress up, carve faces into pumpkins, light blazing bonfires, and keep yourself surrounded by black cats. Otherwise, the fairies might get you. In fact, we heartily recommend surrounding yourself with cats throughout the year. Just in case.
#10
No, No. Too Scary For Me
#11
My 6 Year Old Sister Wanted To Be Coraline For Halloween And For Me To Accompany Her As The Other Mother. Here Is Our Result!
#12
This Kid's "Tired Mom" Costume
#13
Tripod Got My Vote At The Costume Contest
#14
My Nephew Had A Six-Hour Heart Surgery The Day Before Halloween. This Is How They Solved His Walking Restriction For Trick Or Treating
#15
She Even Giggles When You Poke Her Belly Button
Bear_Panda_dear 6 years ago
Awwwwwwwwwwwww...... How has no one commented how cute she is! Bless her heart
#16
I Don’t Know If The Town Is Ready For My Trick Or Treaters Or Not
#17
Just In Time For Halloween, Anglerfish Costumes
#18
My Daughter’s Preschool Had A Costume Party Last Halloween. There Were 9 Princesses, 2 Super Heroes, And 1 Garbage Truck. She Was The Garbage Truck
#19
She Refused To Smile The Entire Time In Costume
#20
We Won The Yuk Yuk's Comedy Halloween Costume Challenge
#21
Some Cop In My Hometown Winning Halloween
#22
A Wild Horseshoe Crab In Its Natural Habitat
#23
I Was Asked "Why Didn't You Dress Up For Halloween?"
#24
Created A Mask Of My Face For Halloween
#25
My Best Friend Handmade A Skunk Costume For My Kid’s First Halloween
#26
Mexican Climbing A Wall Costume
#27
My Wife Was In An Accident About 2 Months Ago Resulting In A Severe Brain Injury. We Thought We'd Make The Most Of The Situation
#28
I Told A Kid In My Neighborhood I Loved His Costume. He Replied With Asking Me If I Would "Bite His Shiny Metal Butt"
#29
Freddy Mercury Halloween Costume
#30
I Don't Know Whose Kid This Is But I Love This Costume
#31
Pretty Unique Halloweeen Costume - Dead Body On Mount Everest
#32
My Nephew Was Bob Ross For Halloween
#33
What A Fun Guy. Get It. Fun Guy
#34
Some Girls Want To Be Disney Princesses For Halloween. Others Walk A Different Path... It's The Expression That Really Sells It
#35
For Her First Halloween, She Became A Free Elf
#36
My Daughters As Maria And Luigia
#37
I Made An Ewok Costume For My Daughter
#38
My First Halloween As A Double Below The Knee Amputee. Forrest Gump And Lieutenant Dan
#39
Just Wanna Brag On My Girlfriend’s Son. He Killed It As Eleven, This Year
#40
Joker: The Beginning
#41
My Friend Won The Halloween Costume Contest. Are You Surprised?
#42
Straight Outta Hell
The hubs and I are super into the holiday and go all out with months of sfx work. Everything is made from scratch and if it's not, its been reworked to make a custom piece.
#43
I Figured Out How To Use A Sewing Machine And Made My Son A Jawa Costume
#44
Mom Crocheted This Xenomorph Costume For Her Son
#45
My Son Just Discovered Metallica, He Can’t Wait For Halloween
#46
Some Makeup And Scar Putty Turned Me Into The Nightmare Version Of My Favorite Emoji
#47
My Lara Croft Cosplay
#48
Best Costume At My Office Today. The TV Rolls Around
#49
My Halloween Costume Is A Band-Aid
#50
No One Knew Who He Was... Either We're Too Old Or The Costume Sucks...
#51
Burn Baby Burn!
#52
6 Years Of Daughter & Cat Halloween Costumes
#53
“Fluffy The Three Headed Pug” - Doug
#54
My Halloween Costume: Amazon Prime
#55
An Actual Interview Going On At The Office. We Take Halloween Very Seriously
#56
My Dog Stanley Dressed As Steve Jobs For Halloween
#57
I Think My Girlfriend's Weird Al Costume Is Spot On!
#58
Crocheted Batman Costume
#59
Two Months After My Grandma Was Given Her Last Rites While On Hospice Care, She’s Now Back At Home Practicing For Her Rehab Centers Annual Halloween Costume Contest
#60
We Had A Candidate Interview For An It Position Today
He literally designed and printed this shirt because he was interviewing on Halloween! Needless to say, we hired him.
#61
Today We Had A Halloween Celebration At My School And Some Of The Teachers Decided To Dress Up As Hogwarts Staff. I’m Impressed
#62
For Halloween, One Of Our Beloved Staff Transformed Her Entire Living Room And Her Undivided Person Into One Complete B&W Edward Gorey Set-Piece
#64
My Best Halloween Costume
#65
I Made An "I Scream Sundae" Costume For Halloween This Year
#66
She’s Been Growing Out Her Hair For Nearly Two Years With The Express Purpose Of Being Dumbledore For Halloween. She’s Five
#67
Full Costume! It’s The First Time I’ve Thought Someone Of The Silver Screen Looked Like Me
#68
Halloween Gets More Difficult Each Year, My Daughter Halloween 2018
#69
My Coworker Came As Me To Work For Halloween
#70
My Halloween Costume From Last Year. I’m 6’6”
#71
Nailed It
June Clavelle 6 years ago
Kevin from Office, when he spilled his chilli on the floor!! Hilarious costume!
#72
My Friend With Amelia Syndrome And I Had The Best Halloween Costumes
#73
This Is Wisdom. He’s From Ghana, And He Won The Office Costume Contest Hands Down
#74
A Friend Made The Best Michael Jackson Costume I Have Ever Seen
megan stultz 6 years ago
I love this it's really good and creative but if a white person did this it's black face and racist
#75
Homemade Halloween Mask Selfie
#77
My Pup’s Halloween Costume Came In The Mail Today
#78
Coworkers Crushing The Team Costume Contest
#80
My Son Is Elton John For Halloween!
#81
My Son Showing Off His Dustin Costume We Put Together
#82
Sexy Halloween Costume
#83
IKEA Allowed Us In To Take Photos Of Our Costumes
#84
I Won The Costume Contest This Year
#85
Went To A Corporate Party Today, Thought This Costume Was Only Fitting
#86
We Went Back To The Future. Think Our Costumes Turned Out Well
#88
My Boyfriends Mask Got Quite A Few Double Takes
#89
It's Just Another Day, I Don't Know Why You Are Making A Big Deal
#90
A Realistic Danny DeVito Mask
#91
Is This A Costume?
ʕ·ᴥ·ʔkoalaʕ·ᴥ·ʔ 6 years ago
Isnt is that meme that goes something like *points at a butterfly* look a pigeon
#92
We Won A Costume Contest Dressed Up As Russell And Kevin From "Up!"
#93
This Is My Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Costume! Found All The Stuff At Value Village For Under 50$
#94
Happy Halloween, Meat Sacks! Shots From This Weekend
#95
My Sister Takes Halloween Very Seriously (Year 2). And Yes, Her Dog Is Still Very Much Involved
#96
My Nickname At School Is Peanut, So My Mom Decided To Make Me A Mr. Peanut Costume This Year
#97
Happy Hallomeme
#99
The Best Halloween Costume Idea I've Come Across So Far
#100
Trying On Costumes. I Don’t Think He Likes This One
#101
Happy Halloween From Señor Roberto
#102
Well Done Sir. Well Done
#104
My Friend Made Her Dog A Halloween Costume
#105
My Son's Extremely Creepy Halloween Costume
#106
“All You Need Is Love. False. The Four Basic Human Necessities Are Air, Water, Food, And Shelter"
#107
We Took A Shot As Jim And Pam
#108
Look At This Photograph... Of My Halloween Costume
#109
Oogie Boogie
#110
My Daughter Wanted To Be A Tide Pod
#111
Sunday Scaries - Zombie Bride
#112
I'm Naomi Watts For Halloween This Year
#113
My Girlfriend And I Live In Hawaii. A Handful Of People Said We Had The Scariest Costumes They'd Seen All Of Halloween
#114
My Girl Friends And I Did It Again! Best Group Costume Three Years In A Row. We Went 'Full-On Ferrell' This Halloween!
Brandy Grote 6 years ago (edited)
I love this group! Every year they have a great theme, and pull it off perfectly!
#116
From Calabasas To Connecticut
#117
Genie Costume
#118
Least Popular Breaking Bad Costume
#119
My Robin Cosplay From Stranger Things
KEBI Photography 6 years ago
There is a girl at my school who looks exactly like Robin, and kind of dresses like the 80's too.
#121
Angela Anaconda And Johnny Abatti
#122
As An Alt Girl, I Decided To Dress As A Normal Person This Halloween- Gave Everyone In The Office A Spook
#123
My Daughter Wanted To Be Groot For Halloween. But The Costume Was Just Too Boring. So I Jazzed It Up, And She Gets To Be Girl Groot For Halloween
#124
Saw This Costume At Work Yesterday
Miro Redgrave 6 years ago
That's a costume of an artist's version of Pokemon if they were invented by Tim Burton. Very specific and very cool! 1e7-5db03f...d753a5.jpg 
#126
I'm A Bit Late But This Is My Halloween Costume! I Am Three Hole Punch Asian Jim
#127
My Son Found His Halloween Costume
#128
How My Acquaintance Sent Her Son To School
Demonic Cow 6 years ago
It’s not too bad, but this costume is not really appropriate for a little kid.
#129
This Pennywise Halloween Costume
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Nicholas Yu 6 years ago
Me and my kid last year. She went as Snow White... IMG_0488-5...17543b.jpg 
Laura Gillette 6 years ago
The girl who dressed up as Wednesday Addams and people just asked her why she didn't dress up for Halloween reminded me of when something similar happened to me... I dressed up as a Pink Lady (from Grease). I made my clothes and hair 50's style--I wore a high-waisted A-line skirt and a high-necked short sleeved sweater top (tucked into the skirt to give the classic 50's new look silhouette), and did my hair up in a high pony with a headband, and I had a Pink Ladies jacket left over from a high school production of Grease... but everyone who saw me at work just said "you look very nice today!" and I had to turn around to show them the Pink Ladies iron-on lettering on the back of my jacket. Oh well.
Michelle 6 years ago
Laura, most people aren't all there upstairs, you know. Grease (the original) was my FAV. It was the only movie I saw about 4 times & I couldn't even afford to go to the first one. I wonder what they would have said had you dressed up as Olivia in those skin TIGHT pants LOL I'm sure you looked GREAT :)
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Nicholas Yu 6 years ago
Me and my kid last year. She went as Snow White... IMG_0488-5...17543b.jpg
Laura Gillette 6 years ago
The girl who dressed up as Wednesday Addams and people just asked her why she didn't dress up for Halloween reminded me of when something similar happened to me... I dressed up as a Pink Lady (from Grease). I made my clothes and hair 50's style--I wore a high-waisted A-line skirt and a high-necked short sleeved sweater top (tucked into the skirt to give the classic 50's new look silhouette), and did my hair up in a high pony with a headband, and I had a Pink Ladies jacket left over from a high school production of Grease... but everyone who saw me at work just said "you look very nice today!" and I had to turn around to show them the Pink Ladies iron-on lettering on the back of my jacket. Oh well.
Michelle 6 years ago
Laura, most people aren't all there upstairs, you know. Grease (the original) was my FAV. It was the only movie I saw about 4 times & I couldn't even afford to go to the first one. I wonder what they would have said had you dressed up as Olivia in those skin TIGHT pants LOL I'm sure you looked GREAT :)
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