Halloween offers an outlet for creative expression that is second to none.

Sometimes, those expressions go awry.

There are many types of bad costumes. Some are offensive. Others are too revealing. Some just simply lack any signs of effort.

“Some costumes are bad because they make people mad,” said Amy Meyering, senior early childhood education major. “Others are bad just because there is no thought behind them.”

Senior marketing major Jacob Cox believes that effort doesn’t matter.

“Halloween is more about having fun,” he said. “You don’t need to waste time or money on a costume to have fun.”

Sometimes putting in too much effort could lead to a bad costume.

“I saw someone at a party who was dressed as a giant booger,” Meyering said. “He clearly had thought out the costume, but it was bad.”

Sometimes certain costumes just seem out of place at different locations.

“I saw someone dressed as Harry Potter,” said senior communications major Trever Weidner. “That is something that most college-aged people should have grown out of.”

Weidner added that he saw someone dressed up as a “Sugar Babies” candy, and that was almost as bad as the Harry Potter costume.

For Michael Barnes, junior political science and history major, the worst costume of Halloween came from his brother. The assistant chief at his fire department was recently arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, he said. Barnes said his brother wore a name tag with the chief’s name on it, along with a talking child’s doll strapped to his leg, with its mouth positioned near his genitals.

Barnes described it as “hilariously awful.”

Other costume sins include someone else wearing the same outfit to the same party. This is where a lack of originality could turn a good costume bad.

“We had four or five different angels, in different degrees of naughtiness, at our house,” Meyering said. “They may not have been bad individual costumes, but having so many of one kind made it bad.”

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