With an individual costume you’d think it would be easy to be creative and think of something funny, cool, or wild, but people continue to do the same thing over and over again. Inflatable anything is very 2020 to 2021 and some are funny but most are just old and overdone. Provocative Disney characters, Ghost Face, a t-shirt that says “this is my Halloween costume”, a cat, Spider-man, anything with the word ‘sexy’ in front of it, and Eleven and Eddie from “Stranger Things.” These costumes come off as boring, repetitive, and overrated.

   I know I’m not the only one who thinks the angel and devil costume, Daphne and Velma from Scooby Doo, Cher and Di from Clueless, and Lilo and Stitch have also been overdone. I see these costumes every year and I am sick of them. The costumes are either very provocative or they were all bought at the same store resulting in everyone wearing the same costume. For the guys, the Super Mario brothers, superheroes, and anything that involves taking your shirt off and calling it ‘hot’ has been done too many times.

   I know as well as anybody else that it is hard to come up with a couples costume for you and your partner. When he wants this but she wants that. It’s hard not to return to basics. However, I have to say the Joker and Harley Quinn, Cruella and a Dalmatian, Jack and Sally, Jessie and Woody, as well as Chucky and Tiffany are almost too basic. I think that the Joker and Harley Quinn costume is the most common one I see on Halloween. It was really popular from 2016 to 2018 when “Suicide Squad”was released. Everyone thought it was an “edgy costume,” so it became a popular choice. Then, everywhere you looked it was copy and paste.

   I understand that sometimes it’s  hard to come up with a group costume because not everyone can agree, but I don’t understand why they can’t think of something clever. M&Ms, Crayons, Mean Girls characters, princesses, The Incredibles, and the Wizard of Oz characters are some of the most popular ones that I see on Halloween. At this point, they are just completely unoriginal and have no thought or effort behind them.

   If I have knocked out all of your ideas for a costume this year, it’s probably for the best. If you’re looking for some good ideas, I have some creative and unique ones for you and your friends. Alice in Wonderland characters, Bridgerton dresses, Monster High girls, Strawberry Shortcake girls, cereal box characters, the Chipettes, and the Breakfast Club characters are some good ideas for a group.

   Some characters that I think are classic but not overrated for duo and couple costumes are Barbie and Raquelle, Danny and Sandy from Grease, Wendy and Tinker Bell, and the couple from Dirty Dancing. Lastly, some costumes for individuals I want to see are Kill Bill, Ke$ha, Britney Spears, Jessica Rabbit, Madonna, and Katy Perry. You can get really creative with these costumes especially when copying celebrities’ most iconic outfits.