Whether you want to dress up with your significant other or just your best pal, there's a lot of inspiration you can draw from popular culture. You can totally DIY a costume from anything from your favourite TV characters to your favourite celebrities. Maybe you and your significant other are huge Riverdale fans — we've got you covered. Or maybe you love Taylor Swift. Guess what? We have something for you too. Just about everything can be fashioned from items you already have around the house, which gives you no excuse to not dress up for Halloween this year! Keep reading for 30 ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
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You can either wear a fully orange outfit or fully beige — Litchfield has both. For Piper, you'll need a blonde wig, and for Alex you'll need a black wig, glasses, and heavy black eyeliner.
To be Betty from one of Riverdale's most adorable pairs, you'll need black shorts, knee-high socks, and a yellow and white softball tee. For Jughead, it's all black, including a leather jacket, and a beanie.
You can be any wizards from the land of Harry Potter that you want. Wear your best from Hogwarts, including a school uniform with a tank top, and don't forget your house colours and your wand.
For Howard, you'll need tight trousers with a superhero belt buckle, a loud shirt, and a polo neck. For Bernadette, it's a floral dress with a bright-coloured cardigan and tights.
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To be fancy Beetlejuice, you need a dusty suit and crazy hair. Miss Argentina needs eveningwear and a sash. Oh, and you should be blue.
To be Forrest, you need khakis, a checked shirt, a ball cap, and maybe a ping-pong paddle or box of chocolates, depending on what you prefer. For Jenny, dress in your hippie-esque best.
For Rapunzel, you need a beautiful pink dress and obviously long, luscious hair. To be Flynn, just dress like a rugged prince.
Eleven's look requires a pink dress, jacket, and Eggos. For Dustin, it's backpack and trucker hat with a plain shirt and trousers.
Jack's look requires a black-and-white striped suit, and Sally's is a patchwork dress. Both looks need some serious face painting.
You can both go as Rihanna's stick figure memes with just an all-white outfit with the sticks done in tape. Each look requires a large black-and-white mask that you can make out of paper.
For Willy Wonka, you need a long purple coat and a top hat. For his Oompa Loompa, you need a brown shirt with a white jumper. And you should paint yourself orange.
If you want to go a different Stranger Things route, you can dress up as Eleven in her pink dress and your companion can be an Eggo made out of yellow posterboard.
For Margaery's look, you'll need a light dress with a medieval vibe. For Tommen, it's tight trousers, a long jacket, boots, and a crown.
To be this version of Taylor Swift, it requires all black and fishnets. To be one of her dancers/admirers, you need a shirt that says "I ❤ TS."
There are a number of ways to dress up as a moment from the Fifty Shades of Grey series, but for this one, Ana has fishnets and lingerie and Christian has jeans, a button-up, and a tie. Don't forget your props!
You can dress up as one of our favourite celebrity couples by just wearing monochrome neutrals. That's really all it takes.
To be Sheldon, you need a DC superhero t-shirt like Green Lantern or the Flash. For Amy, it's a dress with tights and a cardigan.
For this one, it really just requires dressing up and having a rose and a ring.
Dora's outfit is pink and orange with sneakers and a purple backpack. Diego's outfit is a little more like a safari adventurer with a vest and hat.
If you've got an Incredibles t-shirt, you can just add black shorts, red tights, and a black mask to make this costume.
Mermaid Man's look is a red t-shirt with shells, shorts, and green tights. Barnacle Boy requires a red t-shirt, shorts, tights, elbow-length gloves, and a hat.
Put on your best 1940s outfit to be this adorable pair from The Notebook.
It's all about denim on denim, off-the-shoulder shirts, and a giant cell phone to be Zack and Kelly.
Leia's iconic look requires an all-white dress and the signature buns. Han Solo's outfit is a white shirt with a black waistcoat and black trousers.
For this Beetlejuice, you need to dress in a black-and-white striped suit. For Lydia, it's all black and a Polaroid camera.
Both outfits require solid colours of red and blue. Spock needs heavy eyebrows and thick black hair. Uhura needs some pops of gold in her look, like nails and eye makeup.
Dress up really fancy and cover yourself in fake snow and carry around a life preserver with Titanic written on it.
Archie needs red hair and a blue and yellow letterman jacket. For Veronica, you need a black dress and heels and a pearl necklace.
To be these two from the Mystery Gang, you only need a few costume pieces. Daphne wears a purple dress with a green scarf and Fred wears a white shirt and jeans with a red scarf.
For Mary, you need a white blouse, black skirt, carpet bag, and umbrella. To be Bert, you need to be willing to get a little dirty — he is a chimney sweep, after all. Wear black trousers with a grey or blue shirt and braces, and carry your cleaning tools.