We Asked, You Answered: GW's Best Halloween Costumes

This was a costume in my freshman year and also a project for my English class. For some reason, I chose to write about "It." My balloon popped twice that day, which scared the younger kids around me. My favorite detail was that I bought a fake arm from Spirit Halloween to scare people by pulling my arm off, like Pennywise had bitten it.

For my first school Halloween celebration in kindergarten, my mother made me the most "phantastic" Philly Phanatic costume. Growing up in Pennsylvania, the Phanatic was—of course—a local hero. I remember walking in the town parade, waving, blowing my party horn at the crowds and feeling very satisfied with myself. Even though I now live in the land of the Nationals, I still have a love for my hometown team.

This costume is from a few years ago. Unfortunately for my cat, Bean, I found a very cute bee costume for her to wear. I wanted to match—so I dressed up as Bean in a bee costume! As you can see from her face, she loved it!

Our family's first group costume together back when my kids were babies. Hopefully not the last! They still love watching the show but now that they are in 1st and 4th grade they have their own ideas for costumes—"K-pop Demon Hunters' cat" and "a zombie baseball player." Hard to match with that!

In 2012 and 2013 I got real into zombie makeup for Halloween. I was 26 years old at the time, just graduated from grad school at GW, and was working at a health club in D.C. "The Walking Dead" was a huge show and I've always loved zombie games, movies and shows. I was able to convince my girlfriend (now wife) to dress up as my victim a month after we started dating. Our makeup was so good that a clerk asked if she was OK when she stopped at a store before our destination. As part of her costume, I had her put on mascara and then put eye drops in her eyes so it would cause tear marks on her face so that her character looked like she had cried when attacked by the zombie. 

In 2013, I experimented with the makeup to make it look like my lip was chewed off by another zombie having exposed teeth. I even dressed like a "glamorous zombie" for our rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding in 2015, and we had zombies on our wedding cake. Our wedding was coincidentally on Halloween, and our relationship started around "The Walking Dead" and zombie costumes. Now I have two younger boys, and when they are old enough, we're going all in again... HA!

When I was three years old my mom bought a Tinker Bell costume because I loved the series. I felt like a magical fairy princess.

I was 17 and went as Indiana Jones. Honestly, I just wanted something classic that still looked kinda rugged. I put it together myself: brown fedora, khaki vest, khaki pants, and an olive satchel across the chest. Best part was the makeup. Dirt, bruises, and a cut lip so it looked like I just barely made it out of a temple. My friends helped me with the makeup, so it wasn't all me. I went with my friend, but we did our own thing. His all-black fit with the bloody tears made for some good pics next to mine. Everyone got it right away, and I got asked “Where’s the whip?” probably 20 times. Next year I’m bringing the whip.

I wanted to submit a photo of my cat-child, Yuki, in his handsome cowboy outfit! He has very little hair (he is a Devon Rex) and loves to get dressed up to stay warm.