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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

DIY: Halloween 2015

image: photo of minion costumes
Trio of minion costumes, Instructables
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It's time again to troll the web for Halloween ideas. And there are some good ones. Group costumes appear to be big this year.
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image: Mario Kart group costume
Mario Kart (Image Imgur, ShadowmanJack), Mashable
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Here are links to 3 lists with images: 35 Fun Group Halloween Costumes for You and Your Friends20 Genius Halloween Costume Ideas You Can Whip Up Last Minute; and 11 Halloween Costumes No One Else Will Have. The slides in this last list also serve as comments on current social trends and perceptions; one of the slides--Unemployed Dov Charney--links to a background article about the former CEO of American Apparel.
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image: illustration of Halloween costume based on Dov Charney
Costume: Unemployed Dov Charney, refinery29
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There 20,000 ideas at Coolest Homemade Costumes.

If the minions in Despicable Me have caught your fancy, here's how a number of people have adapted them to costumes: 21 DIY Minion Costumes from Despicable Me for Halloween. If you have the time and patience, this article will explain how to build a costume true to the original minion form: Trio of Minion Costumes (Despicable Me). The instructions are fairly complicated, but the description walks you through them well.

Instructables is sponsoring a Halloween Costume Contest (the minion costumes above are an entry). There are 33 days left to submit an entry and the prizes are described thus:
Ready your sewing machines, fire up the glue guns, and charge your battery packs, it's Halloween again! Enter your DIY masterpieces in the Halloween Costume Contest for a chance to win some awesome prizes including an iPad Mini, a Petcube Camera, a Leatherman multitool, Samsung digital camera, and more, provided by HalloweenCostumes.com and Petcube!

-- Marge


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