Halloween Contests
Every Halloween a number of venues host contests that have a womens costume category. If you’ve got a particularly creative or detailed costume, you can actually win quite a bit of money in some of these contests. If you’re serious about competing for the cash, you’re going to want to spend some time shopping for and comparing womens costumes to find just the right ensemble for you.
It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for costumes on sale for Halloween or you’re just trying to go to a fancy dress party on the cheap, is here with the cheap costumes that will help you save big and still look fantastic. I wasn’t to sure what I wanted to dress up as. Because of my situation I didn’t have much choice except for a womens costume with a stomach showing. I just found an old black shirt, painted my favorite number on the front and back, bought sweat pants to match, got high white socks and painted a stripe up the sides. wore my black shoes and put my hair in pigtails. My nephew played ball so the bat came in handy!
My sister painted a baseball on my tummy and of course I wanted my soon to be son’s name on it so she put his name and #1. I was so happy with my costume I got lots of compliments! I made the hat out of a laundry basket covered with poster board and a sash. If you look carefully you can see tiny eye holes. I wore a button down cotton sweater on my hips- filled the arms with stuffing and added gloves in place of my hands (my real arms were in the hat!). This womens costume took maybe an hour to make! I bought a towel rack and spray painted that also.
What you need for this is 3 large poster boards, a man’s jacket that will fit around your hips (goodwill or thrift store is a great place to find it) yarn for the hair and either flesh colored fabric or a flesh colored tight fitting shirt. The easiest way to make it is to use the flesh colored shirt and draw a face on it. If you are not pregnant you can use a pillow under the shirt. To make the hat you take two of the poster boards and tape them together to make a cylinder. The third is cut up to make a brim and taped to the hat. Cut two holes for your eyes and disguise them with the center of a flower. Attach hair to either the hat or the shirt with tape or stapler. When you put the hat on your arms are actually folded up in front of your chest helping to hold the hat up. The jacket is buttoned around your hips. Yuck!