This is Halloween! (pt 2)
Shop your closet, girls! We have parties to attend!
Happy Halloween weekend!
Like last year, I’ve decided to use this newsletter to help you (and me) find some last-minute Halloween costumes, shopped primarily from our own closets. And if you think this is a waste of a newsletter, let me tell you this: earlier this week I was invited to a Halloween dance party on Saturday and had no idea what I was going to wear. I had no costumes planned and didn’t have time to do something grand BUT I remembered my newsletter from last year and voila - look out world, RJ MacReady is coming for you! I had everything in my closet, down to the aviator jacket I recently sourced (all I have to do is draw on a beard)! So, hopefully if you find yourself in a similar pickle of a last-minute party invite or just a good old-fashioned lack of time, most of these could be found in your own closet, with a possible quick trip to a crafts store.
I’ve added shoppable links for each look just in case you’re like, “I HAVE TO HAVE THIS” but really we’re trying to buy as little as possible this week. The looks range from fully covered to not. at. all., so let’s get to it!
Happy spooky shopping!
Costume 1: Jamie Lee Curtis from True Lies
It’s apparently becoming a Halloween newsletter trend to include Jamie Lee Curtis, though this time it’s sans hotdog fingers and avec a really hot transformation. This costume is for people who like to use a Halloween party as performance art. You see, in True Lies, Jame DIYs her own She’s All That moment and de-“frumps” her own dress in mere moments. She rips the tulle from her dress to reveal a bombshell bodycon LBD, adds a red lip, and uses water from a nearby vase to slick back her hair. Maybe you’ve just got to see it to get it…
Right? You can start with a pre-poofed dress OR you know you have a little LBD you never wear hanging in your closet. Run and grab some tulle, staple it to the dress and mid-party just rip that shit to shreds! It would definitely be one of those IYKYK kind of costumes, you know? Just don’t forget to to BYOV (Bring Your Own Vase) and bonus points if you BYOA (Bring Your Own Arnold) and get that second Jamie transformation going once you’re home ;).
Costume 2: Meredith Blake in The Parent Trap
I’ve got workout gear, you’ve got workout gear, what we may or may not have is the ability to look amazing even when we’re basically chewing on gecko. Not a sentence you hear very often! But we can’t all be Meredith Blake! We can only put on our finest black gear, grab some twigs from outside, print out and pin a picture of gecko in our hair and then go to a party! Also a strange sentence! But one that will have all the girlies laughing, and there’s nothing better at a Halloween party than to have a prop to dance with. Trust. Like the trust Annie had in Hallie when she pierced her ears with a needle and an apple.
And just for fun…
Costume 3: Indiana Jones from Indiana Jones
Well if it isn’t MacReady with a hat and leather bomber, then it’s gotta be Indi. I can’t promise you’ll have the swagger of Doctor Jones, nor the fear of snakes (not a prereq), but you can be a vision in brown. You probably have a wide brim hat in the back of your closet from your boho days, you have some hiking boots, you can raid your dad’s closet for the khaki separates, but what you may not have is a whip (I mean…). My suggestion? Are you a cat owner? You know where I’m going with this. Grab that little feather on a rope thing and whipcrack! that bad boy throughout the party. Bonus points if the party has an actual cat hanging around because then you’re everybody’s best friend.
Costume 4: Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her
Me-ow. Like I said, this one leaves veryyyy little to the imagination but look what our imaginations can build! Grab your nude tank/slipdress/bra and then layer, layer, layer! Raid your mom’s jewelry box, your grandma’s jewelry box, your friend’s grandma’s jewelry boxes. What you need is just a bunch of beads. And let’s say you don’t have a red tapestry wrap skirt? Do you have curtains (lol) (I’m trying to problem solve here, people!). I can’t help you if you don’t have a bob but if you do…boy howdy you are about to entrance every last party-goer and then some. Just look out for aging actresses and try and perfect your cat-like walking and beguiling voice…
Costume 5: Damian from Mean Girls
Ok, so you have ten minutes before you have to be out the door. Grab your hoodie, grab your sunglasses, write a little sign with sharpie that says, “she doesn’t even go here” and not one person will mistake who you are. You are an icon, you are eternal, your are the zeitgeist itself. You are Damian.
If you are in the mood to shop, I’m having a neutral sweater story sale over on IG right now! And here are a few of the pieces up for grabs:
We’ll get back to our usual programming next week but in the meantime, BE SAFE, have fun, and please let me know if you actually use any of these ideas haha! Thanks as always for being here xx Maggie
The mean girls costume made me smile, love these picks!
Fun.