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Funny, Old Lady Costume
Dress up as this funny, old lady for your next Halloween or harvest party - Idea and photo submitted by Snogirl!

Materials:

  • Grandmothers dress with tie belt
  • Two small baby blankets
  • Two depends undergarments
  • Old fashion looking shoes
  • Trouser socks or knee hi's
  • Long, vintage necklace

Instructions:
First, fold up the baby blankets and the depends. Put on an old pair of knit shorts and place the depends in the back to "add" to your back side.

Next, put on the old dress w/ the tie belt and add the baby blankets in the front to make it look like your bosoms have fallen.

Put your hair up and add powder to make it gray. Use baby powder to make your face pale and add lines and wrinkles w/ an eyeliner pencil.

I have worn this costume at three different jobs and have been mistaken as a customer at two of them and won the costume contest twice. There are endless variation of this costume, and the more you get into it the more it works. Stoop over and talk in an "old person" voice. Add an old purse with cheap candy and offer it to every "Sonny" you see.

- See a larger photo of this costume completed by Snogirl.

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