Oh fuckity fuck - no hallowe’en costume. PLEASE HELP 🥺

[MyrtlethePurpleTurtle]

So I have a hallowe’en party to go to tomorrow evening. Being hosted by a new US friend who is super passionate about hallowe’en.

I was going to go as June from the Handmaid’s Tale.and was a bit smug that I had found a costume on Amazon with dress, cape, scarf and ‘wings’.

And it arrived yesterday after a 6 week lead in time and, oh my, it bears no resemblance to anything vaguely related to the Handmaid’s Tale. The cape is a huge shiny red zip up raincoat, the ‘wings’ are a circular piece of white cotton with two ribbons tangling down and, despite the cape being monster size, I cannot even step into the accompanying dress.

Sp, please, can anyone suggest anywhere in London I can get some form of costume that will do for a hallowe'en party. At the moment, I’ll take anything going - whether a high end costume hire shop or a supermarket / similar offering.

I am a dumpy size 16, 5’2” woman in her 50s. So not aiming for sex on legs - just something that shows I’ve made a bit of an effort.

I’m in London so can readily access costume shops etc in London. The party is tomorrow (Saturday) evening

Medusa: just a sheet toga of an old bedsheet, several of those little multicoloured snakes with wire in them, that they use in child craft twisted in your hair (style it wildly, let the snakes stick out), and some googly eyes on the end of the snakes. Low cost and effort and it works well.

I used to make costumes for amateur theatre productions and still do it for fun sometimes.

Buy a second hand brides dress from somewhere like oxfam and splatter on red paint and tea it up, wander round your garden to make it look dirty and scare the neighbours, poster paint is fine and go as a zombie bride. Or just grubby it up a little and go as a vampire bride. Make the dress all tatty and tear up a veil. Vampire bride means a white face and fake teeth. This will cost far less than a decent costume. Lots of bought costumes are made from really crap fabric with no substance.

I say you go as a Dracula easy black blanket for cape black dress from a dress shop and Dracula teeth I have these supplies I live in London to and there very big so ye feel free lol

Zombies are easy to do. Rip some holes in old clothes, splatter with loads of blood and black patches

In central London you could go to Angels. It does stage costumes

Buy some smarties and glue, glue the smarties on to your leggings - you are smarty pants.

Cover an umbrella with cotton wool and make paper dops - you are a rainy day.

Actually if you have an umbrella you could print out pics of the queen and be 'raining monarch' unless you have pedants for friends.

Likewise raining men, raining cats and dogs...

Go to a DIY shop and get a load of colour cards in grey shades -50 shades of grey.

Wear the blue dress get a blond bouffant wig and go as Maggie Thatcher.

Here is what I'd do:

Wedding dress and veil from Oxfam
Mad wig, fake blood and black and white face paint and anything you can get like plastic spiders/worms from fancy dress shop

Hack dress up and throw fake blood everywhere

Get on You Tube and look at a few face painting Zombie/day of the dead tutorials, don't forget chest and arms (just smear)

Put on mad wig and pin spiders etc to it

Grey tracksuit, paper plate and electrical tape.

Stick the tape up the arms legs and middle of your body to look like a stick man. Basically copy the photo but with electrical tape.

Draw a face on the paper plate.

Easy and cheap.

You can do black leggings and black long sleeved T-shirt and use white tape if you haven't got a tracksuit.

I said grey tracksuit because I did it for my son.

You can also do stick women.

Wear the red Mac. Go as Hayley Cropper.