I made all my nerds dream come true this year and dressed up as Han Solo this Halloween.
Harrison Ford:
Me:
{me and a coworker before the restaurant opened last night}
I was super stoked about how well the costume came together. I ordered the Han Solo blaster and a cowboy costume holster online from Amazon before we left for Vegas. When the toy blaster arrived, I promptly gave it to my artist roommate, Alexa. She did an amazing job painting the thing so it looked more authentic.
I bought the v-neck long sleeve shirt at our local secondhand store, the navy jeans are from Old Navy, the vest was borrowed from my downstairs neighbor, and the boots were a purchase from crawling the malls in Vegas earlier this month.
The hardest part of my costume was making the red racing stripes down each pant leg.
I used red duct tape for the stripes, and then painted on the stripes using a paint pen. Very tedious work, but so worth it.
The assembled pieces the night before:
Rocking the costume at work the night of:
Definitely one of my more successful homemade costumes! I had several customers come up and tell me how much they enjoyed my costume. I earned my geek points with this one. Even though this was a fairly practical costume to work my restaurant shift in, my new boots still gave me a pinpoint blister on my left heel, and I probably sweat off five pounds by the end of the night. Long pants, long sleeves, a vest and boots are by far the most clothing I've ever worn to work.
Can't wait to figure out what I'm going to go as next year! Maybe I'll revisit my Beetlejuice costume.
I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!
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