So Halloween is around the corner and as my mom always says, “The only people who are more excited for Halloween than little kids are college-aged kids.” If you’re like me, then you want to have a costume that will be unique and the talk of the party. So, to help you to start brainstorming for your incredible costume, I started a list of unique and fun ideas for this year.
The Patriarchy: For this you have a couple of options. You can simply dress up as a man (of really any profession). You could dress up as a full dollar bill (bonus couple’s costume idea! Have your gal dress up as 76 cents!) Or any other fun interpretation you can come up with!!
Student Loans: This will be the scariest costume at your Halloween party for sure! Ah!! Crippling Debt!!!!
Dining Hall food: Close rival for scariest costume with student loans. You can go for something classic like pizza, or just wear a combo of several different colors with some mold on them.
Harley Quinn: No one else at the entire party will have thought of this costume, I guarantee it.
2016 Election: Easy costume in three simple steps. Step one, find a garbage can. Step two, empty said garbage can. Step three, cut a hole in the bottom of the can and put it over your body. There you have it, the 2016 presidential election.
A painfully punny costume: Something so punny that people at the party can't help but groan while also being impressed with your creativity.
Stereotypical and unnecessarily sexualized female profession: Because obviously women aren’t doctors and as nurses they don’t need uniforms that cover their bodies either. Pick any stereotypical career for women that you wish and go reinforce those gender roles!!!
Some current pop-culture reference: You haven’t seen Stranger Things, but you don’t want to seem like uncultured swine so you can dress up as some sort of reference to the show that you googled three days before Halloween.
Facebook: For this costume, all you have to do is dress up in dark blue clothing and walk around the party interrupting other people’s conversations with your irrelevant political opinions.
Group Costume: Make sure this group costume is relevant to recent pop culture and can be understood when you are not with the other members of your group. Otherwise, you will spend the entire night trying to explain your costume idea to another person while yelling over the loud music at the party (this may or may not be a personal experience).
Donald Trump’s unproblematic comments on women: This is the easiest costume of all, you either wear nothing or just do not show up to the party.
Clowns: Don’t do this. This is not funny or scary anymore. Just don’t do it.
