Holster a faux gun, but make sure there’s an obvious orange tip. Grab a cheap stuffed animal pup to carry with you and protect like hell. Grab a wig or spray some temporary black dye in your hair and part it cleanly down the middle. Swap the white button-down for a black one and the bowtie for a black tie. That same James Bond suit can easily be transformed into hitman John Wick’s uniform. Then, be prepared with plenty of White Russians. Grab a fake beard if you can’t grow one in time. You’ll need: dark checkered shorts (or black basketball/running shorts), a V-neck white T-shirt, a long bathrobe (kept undone), leather flip-flops (or any flip-flops), black sunglasses, and a carton of half and half. Even The Big Lebowski’s Dude wouldn’t be too lazy to dress up as the Dude. If being a single, unemployed, pot-smoking, White Russian-drinking, hobby bowler with a rug complex doesn’t scream badass to you, then GTFO.
Stock your pockets with bars of pink soap and practice your “Space Monkey!” speech. Grab a cheap pair of red-tinted sunglasses. Start with a white-and-blue Hawaiian shirt or powder blue crew neck from Walmart that shows the bottom of your stomach. Don’t wash your hair (or body) for two days leading up to your Halloween party to get that grungy, just-boxed-in-a-basement look. You can channel Fight Club’s alter-ego and narrator Tyler Durden without much grunt.
Finally, practice how to mix a proper James Bond martini.
(Don’t have a suit or shoes? Guess where we’re going to tell you to go?) Instead of accessorizing with a faux Walther PPK, pick up a martini glass, clip on your finest watch, and maybe add some purple makeup to your lip so it looks like you squared off with Goldfinger. Wipe down your black dress shoes, grab a clip-on bow tie from Goodwill, and comb your hair so it’s clean, slick, and deserving of double-0 status. Pull out that dusty black suit from the closet and give it an ironing.
The dollar store is your best friend for accessories and final touches. Go to Goodwill, borrow pieces from friends, or repurpose clothes from the back of your closet. In other words, don’t go to the strip mall pop-up. Here are 11 of the coolest, most iconic, and totally badass characters from your favorite movies and how to create a Halloween costume that is both cheap and easy.Ī few words of wisdom: Don’t spend over $50 on your costume. (I’m looking at you Brawny Man and Error 404 shirt.)Įach year we give a good three weeks of thoughtful deliberation to find the perfect costume, and in 2018, we’re all about representing the baddest mofos of film. Don’t be that guy who shows up to the party in street clothes or pulls together a lame, last-minute costume. Halloween is coming up and that means costumes, baby! Let me begin by saying, you need to dress up in a Halloween costume.