Halloween costumes for ladies (hold the “slut”)

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Halloween costumes for ladies Mental patients and nuns?! The sexy costume fad is truly terrifying.

Halloween is almost here and you know what that means – time to find a costume. If you’re like me, you may not have the funds to put out for an expensive prefab store purchased costume. And where’s the fun in that? As adults, we need to take the rare opportunities we get to add some creative fun into our lives.

Not to mention, that whenever I look for a costume my choices seem to be slutty nurse or slutty cat. Why do I have to be a “slutty” anything? I don’t know about you, but being slutty is not the image I want to portray to a roomful of people. And it’s not how I want my niece to see me; or any young girl for that matter.

Not that’s there’s anything wrong with cute and sexy costumes – a little taste and some mystery is all we ask. So this year I want to challenge us to be creative and crafty. We can make a costume that makes us feel like we stepped in a big puddle of sassy, but still cover (most of) our body and leave something to the imagination. As my mom would say, “Who is going to buy the cow when you are giving away the milk for free?” Now as much as I hate being referred to as a cow, she has a point.

I’ve listed the staples of some Halloween costume ideas – with just a few basics, a few bucks and some imagination you can soon have a fun and economical costume that doesn’t make you feel cheap.

Holy Cow! (I couldn’t resist the pun after Mom’s cow quote)
What you need:
1. White sweat suit that has a hood.
2. Black Felt. Cut the felt into wavy cow spots then glue to sweat suit.
3. White plastic glove. Blow this up and attach to your stomach for udders.
4. Cut out cow ears from black felt and attach to hood.
5. Rope. Attach the rope to your bottom for a tail. You can fray the ends to make it look more realistic.
6. Angel wings and halo.

Killer Bee
What you need:

1. Yellow and black stripe shirt
2. Black pants with an attached stinger. You can use black felt. Cut a triangle and roll into a cone shape. Then attach with glue or needle and thread.
3. Fake gun and bullets strung across chest (Rambo style)
4. Combat boots
5. Headband with antennas attached. You can make this out of black pipe cleaners then glue yellow craft balls to the ends.

Cat Burglar
What you need:

1. Black and white stripe shirt
2. Black pants
3. Cat ears and tail
4. Mask that covers the eyes
5. Pillow case to carry all your loot.

Easy Skeleton
What you need:

1. Black spandex pants and black long sleeve shirt.
2. White paint to paint on ribs, arm, and leg bones
3. White and black face paint. Paint face white and put black circles around eyes, tip of nose, and fill in lips.

Rebel Witch (You have your good witches and your bad witches, but what about a good witch wanting to be bad? This is my costume this year.)
What you need:
1. I’m having my aunt make me a tutu out of green and purple tulle and material that has cobwebs and spiders on it.
2. Black tank top.
3. Witch hat with spiders hanging off it.
4. Black and white striped stockings
5. Any accessory you feel a rebel witch would need; rings, broom, or magic pot (doubles as a purse or goodie bag)

How about it we heart this readers? Ready to join in the fun? Meet me in the comments and share your ideas for affordable (and adorable) costume ideas you can make at home!

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  • Cori

    Cori loves writing, reading, music, photos, coffee, and travel. She's also a bookworm who tries to dance, makes lists then forgets about them and has a small addiction to sunglasses and bags.

18 Comments

  1. My favorite last minute costume is that of the “Cereal Killer.”

    I’ll attempt to explain, but This Guy seems to have it figured out!

    Take an old shirt, squirt some red food coloring (or fake blood, if you have it) on it. Next, glue on some old cereal, just kinda spattered around. Take the box and cut a hole in it (like it was stabbed) and glue more cereal around the edges of the hole. You can squirt the food coloring on the box as well. Carry around the box and a fake knife and if anyone asks you what you are, tell them you’re a cereal killer!

    As for me? I’m going as Betty Boop this year. She’s the original sex icon, back when it could still be classy and not so skanky!

  2. @mandaleem I love the Cereal Killer idea! I love puns as you can tell from most of my ideas. :)

    Betty Boop is awesome. My G’mas name was Betty and she loved Betty Boop cartoons. Great costume idea!

  3. What, nuns didn’t look like this at your church?! I though our church might be a bit off…

  4. Dia de los Muertos costumes are pretty easy. Just throw on a dress or suit and use the costume make-up they sell at the store to make a skull mask with flowers. I did this one year and had a ton of people asking to take pics of it.

  5. I saw that nun costume on a guy last year. I wouldn’t want my niece or any young girl to see that either!

    Great costume ideas, @cori!

  6. This is a great post @cori! I can’t wait for Halloween this year, I have a great costume that cost me less then $20. I’m going to be Rosy the Riveter. So excited! Not only do I have a great, easy costume, I get to sport some awesome red lips!

  7. This is a great post! DIY halloween costume are my favorites…or just clever ones in general, that don’t cost a ton of money. I’m being a sailor girl – I’m just wearing a white tank tank top (more of a wifebeater kind), navy blue jeans, red vintage flats, making a navy blue scarf to tie around my neck & a headband – braided white rope with a huge sequined blue anchor applique – and some matching jewelry. Red lipstick and curls, of course.

  8. I totally agree–homemade/DIY costumes always stand out in a crowd of cheaply made but expensive costumes from the store! And the supersexy costumes are getting out of hand–Batgirl, I can understand. But “sexy Nemo”? Or “sexy Ninja Turtle”? Some things are just not meant to be…

    The past two year’s I’ve been a pirate, using odd pieces of clothing I’ve collected here and there. This year I’m going to be a warrior goddess. I did have to buy a lot of accessories from the costume store though.

  9. What economical and creative costume ideas! You can always go to Walmart and spend a few bucks on a cheap costume that will probably fall apart within 5 minutes, or make your own! I prefer the latter. How about the classic “This is my costume.” costume? Just get a plain white T-shirt and write, “This is my costume.” Kinda funny!

  10. You post really helped me to came up with some ideas on what to wear this Halloween. Thanks for great DIY ideas!

  11. Rock on WHT for being awesome and writing about this yucky trend. My husband’s birthday is Halloween so we always celebrate it and I’m a bit of a boo humbug person because I never have a costume (I admit, the last few years I dressed as myself and said I was a ‘writer on deadline.’ Lame) This year I was begged by the kids to dress up. So two nights ago I stopped by the costume store and all there was was slutty costumes. Nothing original or funny or scary. All just slutty. And dude–I am not going to do slutty nurse in front of my two young daughters. Seriously.
    It was so disappointing.
    I’m glad I’m not the only person who notices this! Great suggestions and groovy article!

  12. I’m glad everyone liked my list! Hope you all have a safe and happy Halloween!

  13. Seriously, I don’t understand why halloween for women is all “slutty ___” costumes! @Krista, I was totally dumfounded when I saw the sexy Freddy Krueger costume last year! I think I recall seeing a sexy ghostbuster one as well. Psh.

    Great post @cori! This is definitely helping me since I have no costume yet!

  14. Great article @cori! I have heard so many women complain about this lately – it’s unbelievable companies aren’t listening to us! There can’t be THAT many sluts out there!!

    I’m loving your sailor idea too, @kirstengail – sounds so cute and could be very sexy with the curls and red lipstick in a completely non-slutty way!

    I teach in a junior high, so if I want to dress up for school functions, which the kids love when we get into it too, I have to make my own – there is no way I can buy any of the crap out there. Last year I was a mad scientist – bow tie and white shirt, long white lab coat which I decorated with science sayings and equations, put my hair in rollers and then just ratted the hell out of it and sprayed lines of gray down the middle – oh, and glasses with tape in the middle. It was fun. My go-to costume especially as a kid but would work as an adult too, was a gypsy – just putting on a flowing skirt, scarves, lots of makeup and every piece of jewelry I could get on – lots of fun as a kid!

  15. Hey now…I take offense to the Slutty Nurse comment. I don’t need to wear a costume for that!!!! See, I AM a slutty nurse in or out of costume!!! HAHA

  16. And…I guess some of these slutty costumes are appropriate if you’re trick or treating at the Playboy Mansion!!!!

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