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Halloween Costume Ideas for Women

By: Jane Lake

The following women's Halloween costume ideas are all available as ready made outfits from Amazon.com - just click on the image to see product details or to order. However, if you'd like to make a homemade version of these Halloween costumes, just check out the how-to suggestions at right - many of the necessary items are things you may already have, while others are easy to find at thrift stores.

Naughty School Girl Costume
This sexy costume features a white blouse with red plaid collar and tie closure, a red plaid pleated skirt and white stockings. Available in Adult sizes: Small (Size 6-8), Medium (Size 8-10) and Large (Size 12-14). Skirt is polyester. Shoes, hair bows, apple and strap/books not included.

Make Your Own Naughty School Girl Costume:

This ensemble brings to mind the saucy school girl who rolls up the waistband of her plaid skirt so far that the skirt is barely there. You can easily get this look by pairing a plaid mini skirt of any color with a man's white shirt.

Wear the shirt tucked into the skirt, or close only a couple of buttons and tie the shirt tail in a knot at the front, leaving your midriff bare.

Add stockings or white ankle socks, high heeled shoes, and dress your hair in pony tails or pigtails with bows. Carry a few schoolbooks with you for the studious "teacher's pet" look.



Snow White
Now you can be the fairest of them all in this officially licensed ©Disney Princess costume. Includes a long beautiful gown with blue bodice, yellow skirt, red trim, Snow White character cameo, attached red cape with white collar, and a red hair ribbon with bow.

Make Your Own Snow White Costume:

It's doubtful that you'll find a yellow dress with blue bodice in the thrift store - but how about a yellow skirt, long or short, with a blue blouse?

Make a cape from a yard of shiny red fabric and add a matching red bow for your hair.

Dazzlin' Devil Adult Costume
Dazzlin' Devil is almost too hot to handle. Costume includes a red hot bustier trimmed in shiny disco dots, short red handkerchief point skirt with red disco dots, bloomers also in red disco dots. Finishing the look is glovettes, tail and horn headband all in shiny red disco dots.

Make Your Own Red Devil Costume

Think fiery red when making this outfit - from a red fleece tracksuit to a sexy mini skirt and bustier - almost any red combination will do, providing you add the all important red devil horns and a red devil tail. Both these are widely available and fairly cheap to buy in most department stores at Halloween. If you like, you could add a red devil's pitchfork as well.

Racy Rag Doll Plus Elite Collection Adult Costume This darling, fully finished garment includes a blue mini dress with white polka-dots, a zipper in back, off the shoulder sleeves, white petticoat with ruffle trim, white apron with red rick rack accent, white mop style hat with small blue ribbon bow, and a red yarn wig. Red and white striped stockings also included! You?ll be a living doll!

Make Your Own Raggedy Anne Costume

You'll need striped tights, or striped thigh high stockingsto pull this outfit together, along with red yarn hair. You can nake a yarn wig yourself by sewing together suitable lengths of red craft-weight yarn; simply center the lengths of yarn across a piece of paper and machine-sew down the middle, removing the paper when you're done.

Other embellishments for a Raggedy Anne outfit (apart from a Raggedy Andy to hold hands with) are bright red lips and lots of red blush on the cheeks. Try to get a dress with flounces on the sleeves or around the hem. If you don't have a lacy petticoat or slip, use fabric glue or hand sew a line of cotton eyelet lace just under the skirt hem. Add a little apron, and you're set to go!

For more Halloween costumes ideas, see Women's Halloween Costumes or Men's Halloween Costumes at Amazon.com.