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Womens Costumes That Will Win Contests

Every Halloween a number of venues host contests that have a womens costume category. If you’ve got a particularly creative or detailed costume, you can actually win quite a bit of money in some of these contests. If you’re serious about competing for the cash, you’re going to want to spend some time shopping for and comparing womens costumes to find just the right ensemble for you.

What to look for in womens costumes: One of the biggest wow factors in womens costumes comes from wearing something that no one else has seen before. Again, this is a great reason to spend a little time shopping online. It gives you the opportunity to discover hidden gems that others might not have found. It can also help to take the venue into consideration. If you show up to a costume contest at a casino dressed as Lady Luck, you might score a few extra points from the judges.

Quite a number of Halloween costume contests take place in bars. If you’re trying to compete in the bar crowd, then it might be worthwhile to consider sexy womens costumes. Keep in mind, though, that just being sexy probably isn’t enough. There should be something really unique about your outfit. That could mean that it’s really well made with lots of detail, that it’s a new take on something everyone knows (maybe a sexy version of the Tin Woodman from the Wizard of Oz, for example), or it’s something completely unexpected and new.

In addition to sexy womens costumes, funny costumes also do well in contests. Chances are that the crowd and judges are already going to be having a good time (it’s Halloween, after all), so something that makes them laugh is likely to score pretty well. Choosing something topical for your area might also give you an advantage. Dressing as a basketball player is too generic to win contests. Dressing up as the star of the local college basketball team gives you more of an edge.

Getting the most from costume contests: Before Halloween comes around, you’ll need to decide whether you want to go out just to have fun, or if winning costume contests is a major goal for you. If you decide you want to be competitive, start early by finding out where the best contests are in your town. Having the coolest womens costume in the world doesn’t matter if you’re not at the right place to show it off.

You can often find the contests advertised in your local weekly paper. They’ll likely include the prize amounts and the cost of entry, if this is required. There are probably enough free costume contests that you shouldn’t have to pay to compete. If you have to, call the venue to find out what kind of prize money is being offered.

Make a list of all the costume contests that includes the time of the contest and the location of the bar or other venue. It might be helpful to prioritize them by time, geography, or prize money offered. You may find that you can only do contests in a certain part of town due to time constraints. If you are going to be driving from venue to venue, make sure you aren’t drinking or that you have a designated driver.

Of course, just having a cool womens costume to wear for Halloween should be fun in and of itself. Winning contests for your great costume will hopefully just be the icing on the cake of a great night out with your friends.

About the author: Andy West is a writer for Costume Kingdom which offers a wide variety of costumes including womens costumes.

Source: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=289942&ca=Womens+Interest

Frequently Asked Questions

QUESTION:
I need help with my costume. IT'S URGENT!?
Okay here's the deal, I have a dance coming up but it's on the 3rd of December and I always leave my outfit to the last minute. I bet I sound really shallow because the title thingy said "URGENT" but this is my first high school dance and I want to impress everybody. The theme is Hawaiian and I already know where I'm going to get the things I need like, the grass skirt, that flower wreath thing along with bracelets and what I'm going to wear underneath the skirt. But I need something that I can wear for a top without going shopping. Please tell me a way to make a suitable top for my costume or what can suit it.
Thank you so much ^_^ the best answer will save my life and earn 10 points
btw can you please spread this question around I need all the help I can get.
- ANSWER:
  Hello there,
  You can take a look at these hawaiian style costumes: http://www.wwfdo.com/index.php?keyword=luau&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
  maybe you will get inspired.
  Hope this helps!
QUESTION:
Marie Antoinette Costume Ideas?
Okay, so I know this sounds a little weird, but I'm already planning my Halloween costume for next year. I love to plan ahead, and get ready really early. Besides, since I'm being something so elaborate, I better get started. I've found a couple of dresses I like, but most of them are the sexy kind (I don't like them that much...). And the floor-length ones look like trash bags. I'm having a bit of trouble finding accessories. I think I'm just going to buy a ribbon, and buy a jewel-embellishment thing and glue it on. Then I'll just tie it around my neck like a choker. I also need earrings and a bracelet, I am a queen for a night or two after all. I've found some wigs, but a couple look really fake...grr. I'm looking for an ash-blonde, or a light brown. I also would like to carry a folding fan, so please gimme a link. You can attach links to shoes, but I'll probably just wear my converses, no one will see them, anyways. I would love to put decorations in my hair like flowers, feathers, and maybe even a ship on the top. Links would be nice, thanks for the help and suggestions! (Also, I'll probably be wearing this costume about three times, so good quality on a budget would be amaazing-ful.)
- ANSWER:
  Honestly, I think the absolute coolest Marie Antoinette costume ever is this:
  
  http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/10/homemade_headle.html
  
  I don't know if scary/gory is what you're going for. There's a link on there to a how-to. That dress is fairly simple, but I'm pretty sure it was made by the costume wearer. If you do this sort of Marie Antoinette, you really won't need anything too elaborate since she didn't dress up for her execution. On the other hand, you could do this set up minus the gore and do a pretty Marie Antoinette look with it. Just as something a little different.
  
  If you do regular Marie, I think you'll run into a bit of a problem in terms of cost. Unless you sew (or know someone who does) you will be looking at about 0 for a cheap Marie dress that looks good. There are some cheaper, but they're the sexy type you mentioned. The first source is a list of Marie costumes from multiple stores and will give you an idea of prices, some of which go up to the 0s. The second source links to a pretty nice Marie costume that is much cheaper, but doesn't have the big skirt. The third source links to fashion plates from the era so you can get an idea of how women dressed at the time. (And the site has lots of other good resources.)
  
  The same problem goes for wigs...the lower the price the lower the quality. If you are using the costume a few times, though, it might be okay to splurge a little bit on some elements. So here are a few wigs that I think look alright and aren't terribly expensive:
  
  http://www.costumediscounters.com/cd/prod/108823/i/1/product.web?code=CSENextag&mr:referralID=156b768a-af9d-11dd-8132-000423c27407
  
  http://www.buycostumes.com/Marie-Antoinette-Wig/17465/ProductDetail.aspx?REF=SCE-nextag
  
  http://www.shopwiki.com/detail/?q=Marie+Antoinette+Wig&s=58763&o=165493515&d=Marie+Antoinette+Blonde+Wig
  
  Don't forget if you like a wig but not the color, you can always spray it with a light brown color. Finding a ship light enough to put in your hair might be a challenge. Not to mention holding it secure. You may want to go for something more simple like this:
  
  http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h247/alohagirl11482/?action=view&current=0marieAA.jpg
  
  You might be able to find a broach made of fabric that would be very easy to pin into your hair. You should be able to find large feathers at a craft store if you're going that route. Depending on your dress color, I'd use a black feather to make it as striking as possible. You can try using a model ship for your hair, but I don't honestly know how heavy these are. Not only will this make it hard to attach, but you'd be surprised at how much added weight on your head can affect you (headaches, neck ache, etc.).:
  
  http://www.genericgifts.com/prod-26187.htm
  
  I would buy a fan at a Halloween store because otherwise it will probably be expensive. Most regular stores don't carry fans and to buy one online and pay shipping doesn't seem worth it. Especially if you get the rest of the costume done ahead of time. One last thing to pick up won't be so bad. Thread a piece of ribbon on the end so you can carry it on your wrist. It looks nice and you won't have to worry about actually holding it the entire time.
  
  For shoes, I would just go with the Converse. Nobody will see them and you'll want to at least have comfortable feet because wearing a giant wig and dress will be awkward enough already. I wore my wedding dress (it was a Victorian reproduction that weighed about 25 pounds) with some wedges. It worked well to make me a little taller so I could walk more easily in the dress but it wasn't as bad as wearing regular heels.
  
  I like your idea for a choker. I might even do a plain black velvet ribbon as a choker though. I think this would accentuate your neck better. (I'd just use a piece of ribbon and some stick-on velcro to fasten it.) Any dangly earrings would be good to offset your high hair and neck. I'd use something from the store that is cheap but looks like small stones or jewels. And I'd skip the bracelet because you don't want to over accessorize the look. Plus any bracelet you wear will probably snag on the costume fabric and create a mess.
  
  Anyway, hope this helps!
QUESTION:
Confused Birthday Problem With Husband...?
Ok, last night my husband comes home late after telling me he was going to help his friend move some couches.. when he gets home he is kinda cranky and so am I because he was out so late..well we argue a little bit and he said well ok well I got you something anyway even though your acting like this and gave me a box that had a bracelet inside......hear is my problem on the tag of the "bracelet" it says "suggested retail price 2,750" and it is obviously not real diamonds in it...I kept asking him where he got it and he got very offended and walked off with it and says well it was supposed to be your birthday present but I guess you want to throw that up in my face too ...this morning I was walking around and found it in the living room...ok on the bottom of it it say 14k but it look so cheap i know that was mean but it does..my other problem is MY FREAKIN BIRTHDAY IS NOT UNTIL NOVEMBER 6 AND HE SAYS THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!! I don't care how much he paid for it or where he got it from but he could at least wait until my birthday! I don't know if im being mean or if he was what but either way it pisses me off that he buys me crap for my birthday and I bought him a 1000 tv.

So do you think he brecelet is real?
Am I being too harsh on him?
How should I fix this problem?

Oh... he also got me this huge nuget ring that has a flower shaped diamond design that is definately costume ewlery....
- ANSWER:
  maybe he stole it and feels bad about it...
QUESTION:
How to emphasize the importance of these wedding gifts to my new MIL/SIL?
I am getting married today. I'm going to stop by my fiancée families house at some point before our ceremony to give my new MIL and SIL little gifts as a welcome to the family type thing. As much as I love them both, after years of being around them, I know very well both are total scatter brains. They do tend to loose jewelry, so they buy mostly costume stuff so it isn't a big deal when it gets lost. I really want to emphasize how much sentimental meaning these gifts have to me so they can be careful not to loose them. I know as long as they know these type of things beforehand, that they are more careful with sentimental things.

Before you call me rude, let me explain the situation. My grandma passed away when I was 13, and
left me all of her jewelry. I will never be able to wear a good majority of it because I am allergic to yellow gold. So rather than be greedy and keep things I can never wear, I've given a lot of it away to the women in my family who can wear and enjoy it. Right after her passing, I gave every one of the women in my family a piece to remember my grandma by. When my cousin got married a few years later, I gave his wife a piece so she could have part of our families history (a ring I see her wearing all the time, that I know she really enjoys and that means a lot to her). Now that I'm getting married, I would like for my MIL and SIL to also have a piece of my families history, since they will be part of my family. I picked out a pair of amethyst carved flower earrings with a little diamond in the center for my SIL, and a peridot bracelet (my fiances birthstone) for my MIL. Both have a huge amount of sentimental meaning, since my mom cut the stone (she is a gem cutter) and my dad hand made the bracelet (he is a jeweler) for my grandma. And the earrings were the gift my grandma got when she was the maid of honor in my great uncles wedding (my SIL is my maid of honor). And not to sound snooty, but both are worth quite a bit of money too.

How can I approach the subject of how important these pieces are without sounding snobby? These aren't some trinkets I picked up at Zales on sale. These are family heirlooms, that are nice jewelry, and I would like to hare them with the 2new women in my family. Any suggestions on this? I really don't want to sound rude or snobby, I just want to get the point across in a respectful manner.
It's not like I haven't lost jewelry too, or that they cant be responsible. It's just that I want them to know the significance behind the pieces before they leave them out for the cats to destroy, or put them on the dresser to be knocked off and be vacuumed up type thing. If they loose them, I would never resent them, I just want to make sure they know this isn't crap jewelry and they should probably handle it with a little more care like they do their own families heirloom pieces.
Ok as one last post here, they are capable of taking ctareful of nice things, they just need to know the items are worth caring for. That is what I'm not sure how to say. My MIL keeps her mothers jewelry in a locked box. My SIL keeps the pieces she has from her grandmother in a jewelry box. It's other jewelry that gets left out and lost/ruined, not sentimental pieces. I just want to make sure they know this should be kept safe, and that it is not costume junk to leave lying around. If I didn't trust and love them, I wouldn't give it to them. And I know they will appreciate it, seeing as they are very emotional and sentimental. I'm just personally not good with words, and am afraid I'll come off rude and snobby when I tell them.
- ANSWER:
  beautiful, Hon......just speak simply and from the heart. tell them that when your grandmother passed on she left you her beautiful collection of FINE gold jewelry, the pieces were custom made by your parents just for her, and you have shared these special family heirlooms with the ladies in your family, because both the peices and the ladies are special to you,now that your MIL & SIL are your family, too, you wish to gift them as well....when you present the earrings to your SIL, tell how how you often imagined how beautiful these would look gracing her ears....and when you give MIL the peridot bracelet (my birthstone, too)
  tell her she could be the ONLY one you could have gifted this to, because it's her son's birthstone.
  
  ( and if your eyes tear up a little, all the better..it goes to how much meaning this has for you)
  
  I can NOT imagine them not being touched by the gesture...I know I would be.
  
  ..but once they leave your hands and go into theirs, you really have no control over how they care for these pieces......but if they have family jewelry pieces themselves, fine pieces, they WILL recognise the quality and the sentimentality of the gifts and will care for them accordingly.