Over the years, Scituate has seen some great Halloween costumes, and some pretty bad ones. How do you know if your costume is hot or not? Here are some tips to help you look good for Monday’s big night.

     The Jersey Shore aired December of 2009. For the past two years, every other person who rings a doorbell is either Snooki or the Situation. Antoine Dodson was famous last year, but ring a doorbell with a bandana and a wife beater and people will think you just have a horrible costume. Costumes today are boring and everything has been seen before. “I was a witch three years in a row, I’m so over that” said junior Katherine Black. For example, a princess, vampire, pirate, and masked murderer are all common costumes. Now that you are in high school, you need a costume that is up to par.                                                                                    

     What is popular in the media? Dress up as your favorite app that you play forty six times a day: an angry bird. If you have no idea what to dress up as, and you are about to leave for the night in four minutes, and have a jumpsuit and a short blonde wig, you can be Sue Sylvester from Glee.If you want to go all out, you can always dress up as pop star Nicki Minaj, or Lil’ Wayne. We all know that your favorite television show is either Modern Family or The Office, so dressing up as Phil Dunphy or Dwight Schrute is a great idea. Everyone loves a good costume that incorporates Scituate’s favorite shows.                     

     Homemade costumes are also great for a last minute resort.  If you have a laundry basket and some clothes (which I hope you do), cut holes in the basket, step inside and fill the rest with clothes and you’re a dirty hamper. Put a yellow circle on a white T-shirt, wear some devil horns and then you’re a deviled egg!

      If you really hate costumes, but you love drawing on yourself, there are endless ideas. You can write “book” on your face, and you’re Facebook! Draw the letter “P” around each eye with black magic marker, and you’ve transformed into the Black Eyed Peas! Draw the letter “C” seven times on your face, and now you are the seven seas. 

     Halloween is all about dressing up. However, if you have a costume that nobody understands, your mom wore in 1985, or eight hundred other people are also wearing, why bother going out? Have a great time this Halloween, wear something fun and unique, and go ahead and donate those old Pocahontas and Freddie Krueger costumes.