Halloween is all about having fun but there’s nothing fun about these boring costume ideas that should be avoided.
Last year’s spooky season was severely impacted by COVID-19 but, with much of Australia set to exit months of lockdown just in time for October 31st, Halloween 2021 should be a bigger event.
Don’t be a dullard, though, and opt for an outfit that’s utterly uninspired. Star Wars? It’s been done to death. Disney Princesses? It might be time to grow up.
We’ve compiled a list of 6 other costumes that are best avoided this Halloween if you want to stand out from the crowd.
Harley Quinn
The 2016 version of Suicide Squad was atrociously awful, but its legacy of forcing hundreds of Harley Quinn costumes on us for every Halloween since was almost as bad. We get it, you’re not like the other girls.
With the latest Suicide Squad film (they placed ‘The‘ in the title so you know it’s different) having just come out a few months ago, expect to see a fair few Harley Quinns still floating about. But, respectively, leave the costume at home. This also goes for her friend, the Joker, too.
Batman
Picking a topical Halloween costume is all about timing. If you choose to dress up as Batman this year, your friends and family will still have haunting memories of Ben Affleck’s turn as the caped crusader in mind. No one wants to be reminded of that.
If you wait until next year, however, after Robert Pattinson’s version comes out, you’ll seem a lot cooler and with the times. And judging by The Batman trailer that was just released, it’s probably going to be a massive improvement on Affleck indeed.
Zombies
READ THE ROOM. Going as the zombified victim of a virus during a pandemic is tone deaf stuff. Halloween’s about escapism, you dolt. There hasn’t been a good zombie film in ages anyway. And The Walking Dead stopped being interesting, like, eight seasons ago.
Fashion from a vintage decade
There’s nothing technically wrong with this one. Dress up as a Woodstock hippy, that’s fine; get a 70’s disco outfit, that’ll be jazzy. But, as I get older, the daunting possibility of the decade I was born in, the 90’s, becoming a costume itself grows ever closer and it’s too much to handle.
There I’ll be, dressed as Dwight Schrute from The Office yet again, looking at a bunch of people with flannels and and bleached hair and garish denim and rollerblades reminding me that I’m outdated and death is inevitable. A moratorium on vintage decade costumes until I can come to terms with it all, please.
Sexy versions
You know the ones. Sexy nurse, sexy princess, sexy schoolgirl – these archaic costumes belong in the dustbin of history. Gendered and fetishised costumes are something they did at boring office parties in the 00’s. We’re better than that (I think). We’ve matured.
SQUID GAME
For Harley Quinn in 2016, see Squid Game in 2021. The biggest Netflix series of all time was always going to inspire fans for Halloween and the internet is already rife with costume ideas. Go as The Front Man, that’ll be frightening! Go as a red guard and put other people at the party in their place! Go as one of the contestants and cosplay as a debt-ridden working class person stuck in the rigours of capitalistic society! Yay!
The commodification of Squid Game was always likely to happen and it’s a sad inescapable irony. So look elsewhere for your costume idea, at the very least so you don’t feel like a fool when you get to the party and everyone else there has the same Squid Game outfit on.
