At this point, it’s probably no secret that we are huge fans of Halloween. I have always been one for wanting to build my own Halloween costumes. I have such a blast thrift shopping, sewing, gluing, and crafting together our look. When we decided to be Suzy and Sam from Moonrise Kingdom, I knew we were going to have a blast putting this one together.
My costume was less difficult seeing that I already had most of these items in my closet and it was just a matter of styling them in the right way. The thing that really made it for me, however, was the fox mask that I happened to spot at Party City while I was buying decor for our party. It was perfect and I decided to nix the binoculars and wear the mask instead.
Mike’s costume was quite a bit more involved. We went to a local thrift store and ended up finding a long sleeved Khaki button up and long Khaki pants. So the very first thing we did was cut off the arms of the shirt and legs of the pants to alter them into a boy scout uniform.
After pseudo “alter”-ing both the pants and shirts, we rolled the cuffs to the right length.
Mike created the patches out of felt, paint, glue, and buttons and I stitched them on to his shirt. He went through Sam’s patches and tried to match them as best as possible.
We ordered the Raccoon hat and glasses on Amazon and purchased him a yellow bandana from Michaels.
The last touch was some Army socks. We found these at an Army Surplus store down the street.
Yesterday for Halloween, we finished up the costumes, decorated for our Halloween get-together, and then our good friends Jason and Tyler came over.
We decided that we needed to take a stroll through Central Park before the party. Halloween in New York is wonderful. The leaves are turning and everyone is out in costume. I also can’t help but love the Halloween street fairs on the Upper West Side that feel like they are straight out of You’ve Got Mail. So we definitely wanted to go out and experience Halloween day around town.
Jason and Tyler’s costumes were amazing! AND believe it or not, both costumes were homemade. Halloween is one of those days that I am reminded how creative and talented my friends are.
Tyler is quite obviously Spider Man and I cannot begin to tell you how heart warming it was to see all of the kids get excited to see him.
And Jason was the Trump Card. Brilliant.
So naturally, we had to walk through Central Park and go to Trump Tower to snap some photos.
We had such a blast being out and about in costume.
We ended up stopping at our good friend Brian’s restaurant to grab some sandwiches before heading back for our Spooky Halloween Get-Together.
