Halloween Costumes with some Emory Spirit!

Students in short-shorts and tanks shiver towards their 8:30 classes in anticipation of the warm afternoons,
while sweater-clad students pull at their cashmere in sweltering confusion as the cool morning temperatures rise exponentially over the course of the day. The trees around the quad release leaves of gold and crimson across the sidewalk. And finally, the Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks: the seasonal change between summer and fall is complete.
 
You know what this means, and you are unbelievably excited. But you’re running out of time—it’s just two weeks away, and you are totally not prepared. What can you wear for the perfect Halloween costume?
 

Halloween at Emory is huge—not surprising, considering our unofficial mascot is a skeleton. The parties at the end of October will be wild and everyone will be out, strutting their stuff.
 
Obviously you need to impress, preferably in a way that is casually slutty, but not so much so that you will be judged. Ideally your costume will be slightly witty so everyone thinks you’re funny and interesting. And ultimately, it needs to make you look super cute, so by the end of the night you can snog it up with Dracula or Superman.
 
Lucky you: Her Campus Emory has some ideas for the ideal costume for an Emory Halloween party!

Dooley

An obvious choice, this takes the standard skeleton costume up a notch. The best part is your friends can dress up as Dooley’s bodyguards! What you will need: a skeleton costume and mask or face paint, a top hat, cane and a cape. To make this costume Mean Girls-approved (because as Cady says, “Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it”), you can simply buy a skeleton T shirt and cut it into a cute and mildly revealing tank top! For a little help with this, check out this video:

 
Just add some leggings and your top hat and cape, and you’re ready to trick-or-treat—Emory style.

Slutty Swoop
We can’t neglect our actual mascot, of course. However, you might not want to wear a full-body eagle costume down frat row, for obvious reasons. Here’s an alternative: yellow tube socks, navy shorts, navy Emory shirt or tank, and the piece de resistance, a bird beak mask. Check out this one–everyone will definitely recognize you as Swoop! Just make sure your costume is not so slutty that you deface our beloved mascot.

Emory Nerd

Let’s be real: you already are one. You go here, and that means you must have had some significant nerd factor or another on your college application. So embrace your Emory nerdiness and flaunt it on Halloween! The main components of your costume: huge glasses (preferably held together with tape), preppy argyle socks, khaki or navy skirt and Emory apparel. Extra props if you carry around your Orgo textbook!
 
Woodruff Statue
This one is ambitious: spray yourself copper and go out as the statue of Robert Woodruff outside of the library. Don’t forget Robbie’s cigar! If I see anyone dressed as this costume come Halloween, I will legitimately give you every last Dooley Dollar I have left because you totally will make my night.
 
Coca Cola

Emory has a special bond with Coca Cola—Woodruff was a president of the company, as was Asa Candler of Candler library, and the B-School’s Roberto Goizueta was a CEO. Rep the drink that is responsible for funding so much of your college education with this costume. Whatever you do, just don’t wear a Pepsi dress!

Clueless Freshman

Yup, they’re everywhere (you might even be one…), and odds are scarily high they will dress in unreasonably slutty attire for their first Halloween away from home. Thus, the perfect costume to mock a clueless freshman is simply to wear that instantly identifiable freshmen lanyard…And nothing else.
 
No, please don’t actually try this last one–stick with the other costumes and you should be in for an extremely fun and compliment-filled Halloween! Take this opportunity to get a little creative, look fantastic, and savor the last bit of semi-warm weather before actual sweater season hits and those Pumpkin Spice Lattes are replaced with eggnog.
 
Happy Halloween!!!