The Crafting Diaries: Halloween Costumes for the Lazy and Uncreative

Author: Anna Ravenelle

Each week on “The Crafting Diaries” Anna Ravenelle scours Pinterest looking for exciting projects that claim the average crafter (and/or college student) should be able to accomplish and then sets out to prove them wrong. Usually failing in her crafting efforts, Anna works to flesh out the instructions of complicated projects so that you (yes, you!) can avoid failure where she did not.

 

My favorite part about Halloween has always been stretching the limits of my closet to see what I can come up with without spending $70 to be the “sexy” version of something that should never be classified as “sexy.”

 

 

This week on The Crafting Diaries, instead of crafting something new to wear during Halloweek, I thought I’d take you all through the many, many options you probably already have in your closet.

The first set of costumes you could wrangle up without much time commitment while still remaining unique (let’s avoid 100,000 black cats parading around Collegetown this year). You can wear something different every day of Halloweek and impress everyone by doing so.

With just a black or plaid skater skirt and a white button down blouse base, there are hundreds of options for the enthused Halloweenie this year.

First up: Cher Horowitz from Clueless. For this classic 90s icon, all you need to add is a blazer (bonus points if it’s yellow), paper shopping bags, white knee-highs, and “Ugh, as if!” as your answer to everything. Because, face it, who wouldn’t want to end up with Paul Rudd?

 

 

Secondly, for any Potterheads out there, Hermione from Harry Potter is a quick and easy costume. Any chance to pretend to be Emma Watson (read: human perfection incarnated) is a chance you should take. To do so, all you need to add is a black or dark gray sweater, a red and/or gold necktie, and a stick for a wand. If the HP life isn’t the life for you, nix the stick and you’re a generic schoolgirl.

 

Finally: Say you want to throwback to childhood, a Mary Poppins costume is an easy fix. Grab a red ribbon, tie it around your neck, a funky flowered black hat, and a red belt. Umbrella and penguins are optional but a spoonful of sugar might help make the “medicine” go down.

 

 

If you are one of the three people at Cornell who don’t own a black skirt and white shirt, there are plenty of other simple fixes. While I’ve provided a few ideas here, look through your closet and see what pieces stand out, and base your costumes around those.

Spice up the classic “witch” costume: wear all black and go as one of the girls from last season of American Horror Story. If you go as Madison Montgomery, a throat scar is absolutely mandatory.

 

 

Throw together all your trashiest clothes and be Ke$ha à la her Tik Tok years. If this doesn’t include ripped fishnets, sequins and/or cheetah print, hair feathers, and/or gold glitter everywhere, you’re doing it wrong. (A more current Kesha with flowing floral prints and pastel hair would also be appreciated, but much less recognizable).

 

 

Finally, if none of these appealed to you (and they’re gold, so that shouldn’t be an issue), wear all white and a red “F” on your face. You’re a failed prelim, and that should scare anyone at this time of year.

Keep it classy, but as you’re dressing up, remember the wise words of Cady Heron:

 

 

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