For the month of October, we’re going to augment our usual Houshold Hints of the Day with a Halloween tip of the day (or two), to give you costume and party planning ideas we’ve acquired from clients while working here at Black Tie Cleaning.
We highly encourage everyone to make their own Halloween costumes, saving money and creating something unique and original that no one else at the Halloween party or parade will have.
But, if you want to buy your costume, or just buy cool pieces to assemble into a unique creation of your own, there are a lot of fun and interesting places in almost any neighborhood of Chicago where you can find inspiration and materials.
And you just don’t have to limit yourself to the “Halloween boutiques” that pop up in abandoned Pier One’s or Hollywood Videos around town.
In Boystown alone there are many unexpected places to find costumes — like going to The Brown Elephant on Halsted and Waveland or Ragstock at Belmont and Halsted. Batteries Not Included on Halsted also has cool costume ideas, and the consignment shops in Boystown and Lakeview have a lot of great vintage finds. Don’t forget to checkout Beatnik’s at Halsted and Roscoe’s, too.
What’s great about all of these places is that if you talk to the staff there they’ll be able to give you a lot of great ideas you might have never thought of, and also can clue you in on a lot of the costumes they have been hearing about.
Like, how about going as “The Real Housewives: Atlanta”? We overheard a group of four guys on the train today talking about that, and fighting over which one of them got to be Nee Nee and who was stuck being Lisa.
Everybody wants to be Nee Nee, evidently. That, or Kim.
But whatever you want to be, we hope this month we can give you some great ideas how you can get ready for that Halloween party with as little hassle as possible…even LESS hassle, actually, if you just hire us to plan and serve your party ourselves.
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