sometimes I wonder if the modesty is a symptom of the upbringing be it via modest "times" or being raised by religious parents that instill modesty in women/girls, or if it is just a personality trait of ours. But also, I like being invisible and disappearing into crowds and dressing sexy makes a young women a walking target for street harassers so that doesn't help either. I wonder if I'd be less modest were I to live in an all female community/culture >.>

When I was married and my kids were in elementary school my wife bought me a Mr. Potato Head costume that had all the face parts stuck on with velcro. We went to a party at the local community center and all the kids had fun rearranging the face parts on my costume.

Very inventive. I'm impressed.

Many years ago my 2 teenage neighbors had the best "mom made" costumes I've ever seen. One was a mail box and the candy went in the mail drop. The other was a refrigerator. This was before digital so no photos to share.

I still remember when we had what was called our "End of High School Break up Day" and everyone from our grade went to school in fancy dress.
One boy managed to get hold of gigantic, full length, advertising condom, wore it and a sign that said, " Prime Minister of Australia," while one of the girls covered herself from head to toes with cotton wool dyed black, painted ( rather explicitly I might add) from top to bottom as set of pink labia and went around telling everyone, " I have one and the Prime Minister IS one."
In Australia we don't celebrate Halloween as much as you do in America BUT until the Education Department put a TOTAL Ban on " End of High School Break up Days" there WERE so pretty awesome costumes that were made and worn.
P.S. A big part of " Break Up Day" was also to raise money for a charity upon which ALL students agreed, so our Money Raising idea was to "borrow' the statue of Colonel Sanders from the top of the local KFC outlet and hold it for ransom. We managed to raise about 1,000 dollars for that effort BUT our costumes were somewhat NOT appreciated by the very conservative School Principal, maybe it was because our costumes made a political statement or perhaps he was upset that I went as the Grim Reaper with a badge that proclaimed me as the School Principal, guess I'll never know which...LOL.

Just threw something together at the last minute and when I walked in the door someone I didn't even know said "that looks like you just threw it together".

I think that’s a great costume! Not being able to sit is a problem. Otherwise, immature company spoiled that one!
My fail was more ‘wrong setting’ as well. I’d just moved to a small ski town, where no one knew me, and dressed as a Young Republican ‘Newt groupie’ in a cheap polyester business suit, with buttons that proclaimed ‘Greed is my Creed’, ‘Poor People Suck’ and other classics from days when the Repubs first left humanity behind. Unfortunately, no one seemed to get my joke, just took me at face value and avoided me all night! Lol

I saw a great costume last year. A guy with one leg went as the lamp from “A Christmas Story”.

OOOOh no................

...sexy you up? F ..your time had not cu ..come

Addendum … you remain one of my greatest draws to the PNW ~

the costume actually looks fine to me, I have to agree with the one who said you were surrounded by a bunch of dicks and I do not understand what knocking on a playing card and asking who's in there is supposed to mean? I tried my best Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black, sunglasses at night is not a good idea. But I made this look good.

I dressed as a smurf cop one year. White shorts blue tights with a blue sweatshirt. Blue face paint and a water gun on my hip.

This year I am going as an off duty mermaid.

I'm confused about the "fail" portion of this. sounds like you were in the company of a bunch of dicks. Nice work on the card it looked great, and of course that big smile

Never a Fail.... halloween is not about success... but bad judgement? I saw on a Military Hospital Overseas... the doctor treating my 3 year old son dressed as a corpse maybe... the senior doctor told him to wipe the shit off!!! Something I truely appreciated as a father.

Not a fail (in my eyes) but I actually dressed as a prostitute for a church halloween party.

I had a pink bunny rabbit costume I wore a couple years while in college.
Being the consummate introvert wallflower, I would typically stand around a drink beer. After something induced me to speak, a guy nearby me said “Wow! I thought you were a really ugly girl.”
That was the end of my pink, bunny rabbit career

WTAF? I'd have been saying loudly for them to not knock on my knockers......perverts!

Haha that's awesome! I love the artwork there! A shame about the guys. I suppose it's like people thinking they can come up and touch pregnant women's bellies.

I used to jazzercise and we would dress up for Halloween. A woman started coming who had terrible BO; so bad it was very off-putting. When I found a blow up costume of spray on underarm deodorant I couldn't resist. I held my breath and worked out next to her. She didn't get the message .

Mine was a variation on your toga, except I was nearly flat chested and went braless under toga . Didn’t realize until I got home that when Inlifted my arms to dance, my boobs were exposed.