Halloween Costumes: Embrace the Weird This Season
If you're looking for a SPOOKtacular blog post about BOOtiful Halloween designs, you're in the wrong place. Try the cheese aisle at your local grocer.
I'll admit that creativity seems to awaken, like a zombie from its crypt, every Halloween. It's the no-holds-barred holiday, where ingenuity is encouraged and the costumes, crafts and craziness that explode around late October always deliver. But lately, all that unleashed imagination tends to coagulate into two pools: Camp Cutesy and Team Macabre. Either it's the hackneyed cheese already illustrated at the opening of this post, or it's literal hacked knees ... and skulls and limbs and gore galore.
Naturally, I set out to create an alternative—one that was neither schmaltzy nor shocking, but instead, and above all, weird, just like Halloween was meant to be. Exactly when I started is lost to faulty memory banks both on decrepit external hard drives and in the decaying meat computer between my ears. Apparently, I registered InstantCostume.com in 2006, so my idea of t-shirts as costumes was spawned at least that long ago. The "Instant Costume" shown below, now updated with fresher graphics, was likely in that first batch and still available at the updated
The concept of everyday wearables like t-shirts and hoodies as Halloween costumes was completely new to me, mainly because I came up with the idea. Understand, I'm not claiming I was the first with it. But as I explain on my Brain-Born Guarantee page, all of my concepts are new to me because they all originate in my brain, versus "inspiration" (read: "copying") from what's been done before.
That said, if you're cool with wearing the millionth variation of the "This IS My Halloween Costume" t-shirt, then I'm cool with you wearing it too. You just won't find it at InstaCostume.com. Instead, you'll find the aforementioned InstaCostumes, like the Wall Flower costume shown above: an everyday crewneck sweatshirt transformed into double-take-inducing costume for Halloween or any occasion that calls for blowing people's minds, if ever so subtly.
And it goes beyond InstaCostumes. I've stocked InstaCostume.com with other unique Halloween-ready designs, including Brrooom™ Aerial Ride Sharing apparel and accessories. You guessed it, another brand I created from scratch ... because people want the logo of a made-up broom-for-hire company run by witches on t-shirts and stickers. At least I know I do.
Maybe the world will get along just fine without my contributions to the Halloween oeuvre. It has certainly squeaked by, so far, by ignoring my oeuvre. Check out InstaCostume Halloween t-shirts, costumes, clothing, gifts (the list of SEO-optimized items goes on) and judge for yourself.