How to Pick an Original Couple's Costume
You and your significant other want to share everything together, even a Halloween costume. This doesn’t mean you have to dress up in something cheesy or uncomfortable. The first thing that comes to mind may be a donkey. This would make one of you become the back end. Don't worry. You can pick an original couple’s costume that is fun, festive and has not been done to death.
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Think of quirky couples. Enough couples have dressed up as Anthony and Cleopatra to last several lifetimes. Go for couples that perhaps don’t have as much notoriety. Go for the second fiddle couples. Don’t be Fred and Wilma Flintstone, dress as Barney and Betty Rubble. Forget Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, go as Fred and Ethel Mertz. Never forget about Seasme Street's Burt and Ernie.
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Pair up as pairs. Think of things that come in twos. Consider dressing like a pair of shoes, a pair of dice or a pair of pants. Dress up as playing cards and be a pair of aces or jacks.
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Double up as duos that work well together or have a common theme. Mustard and ketchup. Bread and butter. Peanut butter and jelly. Death and taxes. Use some creativity in planning the costume. For example, for the death and taxes costume, one could dress up as Uncle Sam. The other could be something like the grim reaper.
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Go for opposites. After all, opposites are supposed to attract. Here’s where the pairing can get really fun. Go for a dog and cat, a cat and mouse, or a lion and a hunter. A cop and convict or spider and a fly would also be fun.
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Dress as anything that works well together. One of the best couple’s costumes--that even won a prize in a local Michigan contest--was a wife dressed as a flower alongside her husband as a bumblebee. Think of other perfect pair ups you can pull off. Maybe a doctor and nurse or a doctor and a patient. Others could be off the wall, like a mortician and a corpse, a serial killer and his victim or a bat and a rabid dog.
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Tips & Warnings
Historical couples are another route to go, although George and Martha Washington have probably been done to death.
Don't forget Biblical couples and couples in the comics or literary works.
Don’t be so off the wall that nobody has a clue what you are supposed to be.
- Photo Credit Illustration by Ryn Gargulinski
