Fashion Q&A

Nick Fleming
Sophomore, double major in Spanish and art

Frank the Rabbit from “Donny Darko”

$100 – pre-made costume and mask

Even though he wasn’t wearing the sexy garb he criticized as typical and boring, Fleming’s costume was still hot. The Daily Lobo caught him putting it on once the sun was low enough, but he still got his money’s worth by wearing it to parties over the weekend. It’s a lot of money, but he said he saved since last Halloween. Now, he said, he’ll have it for life.

“It’s like one of my favorite Halloween movies and I just thought, usually kids my age you know, cross dress and s*** like that and they try to be funny, and it’s like why not try to get a costume that’s awesome and scary at the same time?”

Dominique Santistevan
Sophomore, undecided

Two-Face from the Batman universe

$24 – thrift store fabric – used makeup from last year

Santistevan said she got some queer looks but none were stranger than her corroded countenance. Let her work be a lesson in DIY, which Santistevan said is the key to a successful Halloween costume — or at least avoiding the skankified version of a “cool character.”

“I didn’t know what to be, and my sister was like, ‘Oh, be Two-Face,’ and I just kind of ran with it… I think the worst thing you can do with a costume is when you take a really cool character and you just buy like a really slutty outfit of that character.”

For more Halloween costume fun: Halloween Costumes 2011