This was an awesome couples contest that won us $200! We bought furry fabric and folded it in half longways. We sewed the bottom parts on each side but left room for our arms. We cut out the hole for the mouth and sewed black mesh there. We sewed a small tube type thing on … Read more
My best friend and I wanted to a duo costume for Halloween 2011 at Ohio University. We both loved the movie “Black Swan” and wanted to go as the Black and White Swan ballerinas for Halloween. We purchased black and white leotards and tutus, feathers, jewels, white face makeup, feathered fake eyelashes, and I had … Read more
Every year since our second son was born we have pretty much tried to make matching costumes for both boys and after they were Run DMC and getting great feedback from that the year before we couldn’t think of exactly what they were going to be until a week before Halloween this year. Came to … Read more
My boyfriend and I just loved the movie Anchorman so we thought it would be a great costume! We won our friends Halloween costume contest that year and we still have friends talking about our Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone couple costume from Anchorman to this day! Each costume was really easy to make and cheap: … Read more
“Why’d you take your shoes off?” “Why are you dressed like a chicken?” I went as Harry (on the right) and my buddy went as Marv….The Wet Bandits from the Christmas Classic ‘Home Alone’. The costumes turned out to be the biggest hit of the evening, and each costume cost less than $40 bucks. We … Read more
This Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen couple costume was a fun costume idea that did win us a cash prize at a party. We were trying to think of something fun and different and came up with this. Craig is 6ft 7in and made a really ugly Brigitte Nielsen. He is a black man and … Read more
The makeup for this Hellboy and Wife couple costume took 5 hours but well worth it. First I painted my black boyfriend red with theater paint and then took a latex caveman mask, cut off pieces and glued them to his head. The horns are made out of wood painted red. I then took cotton balls … Read more
For Katy Perry: I started off with the most important and noticeable part of the costume, the lollipops! I know most people know of the cupcake bra from the California Girls video, and I was originally going to go for that but I definitely did not want to buy anything premade, and when I tried searching for … Read more
To the fabric store, Good will, and my craft box I went for the Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Couple Costumes! Bam Bams top is brown felt. The black pieces on his shorts as well as on her pebbles are felt as well. Just traced and cut them out and applied with hot glue! I owned … Read more
The cupcake costume was created by taking a big Rubbermaid bin, cutting out the bottom, and hot-gluing folded poster board all around it. The topping was created using cheap tulle from a fabric store. I bunched it up and duck taped it to the inside so it stayed on top. The sprinkles were just foam … Read more
Every year we have a costume contest at work and I always try to make the costume. My boss loves Gumby and brought in his bought costume and I said something about being Pokey. My friend wanted to dress up also and so I came up with us being Gumby’s enemies. I kept this a … Read more
“I’m a Lady… I do Ladies Things…” It took a while to create this rubbish Transvestites from Little Britain: Emily Howard and Florence Couple Costume for a TV Show fancy dress party. We thought long and hard about how to create it and make it as funny as possible. Obviously, we had a little help from the Little … Read more