The Inevitable Halloween Costume Post 2020 edition

Umbrella Academy, photo Netflix

Not everyone in the Umbrella Academy wears a regatta blazer.

Simplicity 9094, an Academic lewk

https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2020/10/01/pattern-roundup-halloween-2020?

I really appreciate how they have mentioned some current pop culture references; Umbrella Academy is not that well known, and Ratched (also mentioned, it's the Ryan Murphy prequel story with Sarah Paulson) may have slid past some folks' radar.

https://www.simplicity.com/simplicity-storefront-catalog/patterns/brands/simplicity-sewing-pattern-s9094-misses-mens--teens-cosplay/

Number Six wears a regatta jacket too.

https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/09/tcdpris_ec025-2000.jpg

Because there really aren't a lot of new and weird costume patterns out this year (and if I missed them, please comment), I'm going to share the purchased kind.

https://www.amazon.com/ZMJ-Hellboy-Right-Halloween-Costume/dp/B07PQLT9BW/

Right Hand of Doom, screen accurate

I am never going to finish the Left Hand of Doom

What I love are the 'NonLicensed But You Know What They Are' selections.

Smiffy Costumes on Amazon (search 'Smiffy women costumes' for best entry selection)

has solved for Mamma Mia! costumes...

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Remember the time in Joann's I met the kids who were going to go trick or treating as the twins from the Shining? I hope they are doing great.

They could get their mom to make them a couple of these sweaters

Hat included

https://www.cosdaddy.com/Cosdaddy-Gone-with-the-Wind-Scarlett-O-Hara-Cosplay-Green-Dress-Costume.html

This website has a lot of costumes on it. Animal Crossing, too.

It's hard to gin up a lot of enthusiasm for costuming this pandemic year. I didn't have a local con to finish the latest Dalek costume for, so the new hat/helmet is frozen in time. I had promised myself to keep working on it, doing a very gradual layering up of paint over a week or two, for the time when I would need it, but you know how life intervenes?  I'm still sketching that Elric Bro hoodie as well.

for more of this absurd goodness:

https://www.thedad.com/knockoff-halloween-costumes-are-so-funny-its-spooky/

It's links to Twitter responses to a call for weirdest knock off costumes, so everyone who took a photo gets their own linky credit.

And  speaking  of  Spirit  Halloween .....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/style/spirit-halloween-costume-store-undead-forever.html

 is an ode to the pop up Halloween store

which I would appreciate if they hadn't opened right around the corner (literally the other side of the same building) from Display and Costume, my favorite holiday decoration store. A store that was going to be closing this year, instead saved by a last minute lease reprieve.

And which closed storefront did Spirit open in?

Pacific Fabrics Northgate.

(weeps openly)

I have to go finish my homework.