DIY Halloween Costumes

Halloween is a holiday renowned for its ghoulish decorations, delicious candy, rewarding trick-or-treating and, of course, the fantastic costumes that you can only wear one day a year. For many students, the choice in costume is a highly prioritized decision.

While rummaging through the racks at your local Costume City or Target is a common practice, some teens stray from the standard process, resorting instead to devising costumes of their own design. From freshmen to seniors, East’s students have upheld their reputation of some very creative costumes, and this year’s sure to please.

Here’s a sneak preview into some of your peer’s creative costumes for the upcoming celebration.

The Couture Costume:

For some, the holiday is a time to show their true couture creativity. East fashion blogger Gaby Azorsky uses the holiday to make a one-of-a-kind fashion statement. Taking her inspiration from Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” music video, Azorsky will mimic celeb’s iconic style. The video features Cyrus clad in a white crop-top with leggings and metallic heels. The look is only complete with red lipstick, chains and of a course, her notorious grilled grin.

For her representation, Azorsky plans to use her own lipstick and crop top, find a pair of white leggings, and wear her hair in two buns. Her true D.I.Y. mentality comes in handy with accessories – she plans to buy a foam finger, spray paint it white, and attach red fingernails to accurately and entirely depict Cyrus’ image.

“Other people are going to be dressed as Miley Cyrus, but as a joke — I’m serious,” Azorsky said.

The Comic Relief:

Halloween is one of the few times of the year where no outfit is off-limits. Junior Jordan Ovitt plans to use this unspoken rule to her advantage as her and her friends go as the “Workaholics” gang for the coming holiday.

“It’s creative, unique, unexpected and comical, which is all you can really want out of a costume,” said Ovitt.

Button-downs, boxer shorts and name tags delineating each member’s respective character are the elements to pulling off the MTV show-inspired look. Ovitt is taking on Blake, the loveable, blissfully ignorant character notorious for his mane of curly red hair.

“It’s kind of a given that Blake and I have similar hair, so that’ll be pretty easy with the fro-fro,” Ovitt said. “They probably won’t understand it, but that’s what makes it fun, I think. It just makes it interesting. You gotta put a little spice into it. It’ll probably grab their attention.”

The Childhood Character:

While some students vie for more modern costume ideas, others take their inspiration from it’s truest creative form – childhood. Junior Natasha Kiel plans to spend her Halloween channeling her inner-mermaid as Ariel, from Disney’s “the Little Mermaid”.

“She’s my favorite Disney princess,” says Kiel. “I grew up with that movie and when I was a kid I always wanted to be a mermaid.”

Just as Ariel loves to share that she has whozits and whatzits galore, Kiel is thankful that she already has everything she could need for her costume. She plans on wearing green jeggings, a purple swimsuit top under a lace shirt, and temporarily dye her hair the famous red. She also has starfish jewelry she may use, and is contemplating the use of mermaid-esque makeup.

“Hopefully people will think it’s a creative interpretation.” Kiel said.

The Storybook Costume:

Sporting the garb of the title character, senior James Fink draws his inspiration from the time- less game book, “Where’s Waldo”. What makes his costume especially unique is how fewer people have been going as book characters in recent years.

“I wish more people went as fictional story characters.” Said Fink. But his costume, with it’s bright colors and coordination are sure to stand out in the crowd.

Overall plans for the ensemble are simple: A matching sweater and hat are enough to bring the costume to life, and Fink’s own glasses add the finishing touch. Conveying the character shouldn’t be an issue for Fink, since he already bears a resemblance

“I’ve been told I look like him before,” said Fink, whose Waldo-like build and hairstyle undeniably aid his costume execution.